I understand that they both work with imported True Type Fonts. Can anyone tell me if one stitches out better than the other or if one has more capabilIties than the other.e.g. with layout and editing. Many thanks Sue

Thank-you for your reply, Mops. My main concern was the quality of auto digitized designs. I have downloaded a trial of Sew What and can save and sititch designs made with that. You cannot save designs with the Embird trial so I cannot compare quality. I am just wondering if the $100 difference in price is worth it.

I don't know Sew What.

I have Husqvarna's 3D and Embird. And I know they work differently.

3D has a lot of built-in fonts (in the current 4D more than 100) and it has QuickFont which uses TTfonts to make you a new font that is used in exactly the same way as pre-digitised ones - they are stored under my fonts, so you only have to do it once. You can set the size, the distance (in the example below I used -20 for the distance), set them in a straightline, in curvy lines, slant them and so on, but you can't edit the letters.

Embird's FontEngine uses TTfonts as well. You have to use it every time you need a font as it does not store them like predigitised ones (which you have to buy at $15 a set and are not included in Basic).
But apart from all the things 3D offers, you can edit the letters, change the stitching order in the letters and add connection stitches between them.

I'd just made a few towels and the pink name I made with FontEngine. Seeing your question I did the same name, same TrueTypeFont, in 3D - the one in blue. I could have moved it a bit closer, but I can't get rid of the jumpstitches.

Can you find out how the lettering is done in Sew What? It makes a difference if you can edit the letters themselves - I prefer that system!