Has anybody here experiences with the Bernina Designer software of any version HIGHER than V4?

I have V6 and love it. I've been doing the digi challenge lessons from viv at rose cottage and that has helped me a lot, also there are bernina yahoo groups that you can get help from, they don't cost anything. Viv charges $5.00 for her generic lesson which has forced me to learn th ins and outs of my software. I had V5, but was too new to know much. I'm gaining my confidence and loving the digitizing end of things. Shirlene and me and a few other ladies are having our first Embroidery Gathering later this month at my place. I am excited to have others to bounce ideas off of. Love embroidery

I just up graded to ver. 6, but my lessons don't start until Nov. Believe me, ver 5 and 6 are world ahead of 4. I had ver 5 and never did get all my lessons and when 6 came out they no longer offered 5 lessons. i seem to always be one ver. behind Kay

The one thing I'd really be interested, are "improvements" on the pattern-run possibilities. I do know that some other softwares allow pattern-runs to "deform" as they are bending on curves rather than stupidly repeating the basic pattern on-and-on, i.e. stitches on the "Outside" radius of the curve are stretched compared to the ones on the "inside" of a curve, such that radial-stitches of the pattern always point to the focal point of the curve, if this makes sense.
(I think, most of the available battenberg-FSL designs are done with a pattern-run which does exactly this. Not ours though, as I do them manually.)
Does V6 (or V5 for that matter) include this option?

I use version 6 and like most of it. I have not gotten the hang of corel yet, and have not taken any classes on any of the software, the store I purchased from went out of business, so I am self taught.....Vicki

2 comments

by bejoscha 15 Jul 2010

That's the best way to learn!

I never took any course/lecture/book in digitizing when I got my hands on the V4 in 2008. Actually, we not even had a sewing let alone emboidery machine before, so the whole concept of stitch-distance, keeping a reasonable "route" for the thread and layering verious thread reasonable was completely new (and thus fun!) to me.

Do you, by any chance, have experience with V4 as well? I'd very much like to see what has become "better". Not that we are intending to buy a new version anytime soon (-way out of price for a pure spare-time hobby-), but I'd like to be up-to-date on what is possible, and what isn't. What did you pay for your V6, if I may ask?
(The only reason that we have V4 and that we are digitizing at all is, that we got the software for a sugger cube when we bought our used Bernina machine. I'm ao glad we did! But we are experienceing more and more problems with the USB dongle and Windows Vista/7, so our digitizing capabailities currently depend on an old WinXP laptop which is close to dying completely...)

by stitchship 25 Aug 2010

I just found this... did you know that Bernina is having some free "Webinars" on line? You can take them and watch them. They are also posted for a limited time on the Berninausa.com site. You should try it There was a webinar today, and it was about how easy it is to split designs with the new software.