format. Can somebody please tell me what program I would have to consider to be able to change all my designs from the current format to SHV? Thanks

You would only need to convert your designs as you use them, certainly would not need to convert them all and put them on floppies, just write the designs to a floppy as you need them. You can use the same floppy over and over to take the designs to the machine. You can also upgrade a D1 to a USB port and use a stick now as floppies are harder to find in the stores. Any Viking software will convert designs to an SHV format, and the more recent versions will convert many formats to SHV so you would not need to lose your designs. I have a D1 that I kept when I bought the SE because the D1 is a wonderful sewing machine, not just embroidery. I actually prefer to sew on the D1 and use the SE for embroidery only. Hope this is clearer than mud.

I have the Pfaff Creative (1st cousin of the Huskevarna)vision with the 4D Pro suite it converts most formats into vp3 automatiaclly on save. To download a differant format I open the design and am prompted to save in vp3, but can save in most other formats. The other formats won't open when the memory stick is put in my machine. Works great. In fact just upgraded to the Huskevarna 5D, that has just come out. Is easier to use and more user friendly. You might ask your dealer about this.
Mary

I would ask Embird comp.about this problem. This is an excellent program and very affordable.

I have the Husqvarna Designer 1. When I save files for the machine, the format is .hus. I have to use Studio 3D to view and save to floppy for use in the machine. That is when the hus becomes readable by the embroidery machine.

Before purchasing the Designer I ask about the internal workings, plastic vs. metal.

Your new designer should also accept HUS and it should come with basic software to enable transfer of designs to the machine, which means it should convert designs to the correct format.

Check with the dealer and ask them to demonstrate this particular feature for you, they should be willing to oblige if they want your business.
Hugs n roses, Meganne

I have a designer 1 and it uses the floppy to transport designs from my computer to my machine. It isn't enough to download HUS format because the machine cannot read this.Designer 1 requires a disk that is formatted. I do not know if this is true about the machines that have been upgraded to use a memory stick (thumb drive).
You can either get ALL the Viking the software installed on your machine (cost is considerable) or be sure you have the "Reader-Writer" program installed when you buy the machine.
The only program I have found to format the floppy disk and save in the SHV file format reliably is Catalog Express. It is a wonderful program that can not only format and write the disk for my machine, it can save/convert designs in many design formats, catalog your saved designs in folders and print a copy of the design you want to stitch with a color chart and centering mark. The upgraded version can do some re-sizinging and rotating of designs etc.
I love my Designer 1! Although I have only been sewing for 7 years, it has been with me for most of them. It has had 1000's of hours of use and has required only lightbulb changing during it's regular cleanimg sessions.
I have attached the link to the software for you.

Good Luck!
Jennifer
www.ArtGiftsEtc.com

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by meganne 29 Aug 2010

Jennifer, I would like to test this by providing you with a design reformatted to SHV using Embird.
Please email me now so I can send you one of my designs to test.

As a digitiser this information is crucial as I may need to provide a design in SHV one day and I need to know it will work.
emad: melide_menschen@yahoo.com.au
Appreciate you doing this.
Hugs n roses, Meganne

by watercolorjen 29 Aug 2010

I sent you an e-mail Meganne-watercolorjen

by mops 29 Aug 2010

Embird can write directly to a disk for the Designer 1. In manager RightClick on the design, use 'input/output operations' in the pull-down menu and any format can be put on a disk that is formatted for the machine in the shv format. Unless you have a formatted disk (formatted for the Designer that is) you can't use an shv-file. Shift+Ctrl+1 formats a disk and writes the file to it.

by mops 29 Aug 2010

Oh and I have tried and used this several times since I have Embird and not used the 3D DiskManager - which would have meant using both software programs.

I have a Husqvarna Viking Designer 1 and have 4D software and that format use all files: hus, pcs, pes, sew, xxx, vip, jef, dst.

I have the Viking machines, and you can use HUS, VIP, VIP3, and even the PES is recognized by the machines. I don't believe that I have ever seen SHV offered as a format. Does this machine use the floppy, or the jump drive? My friend that died has both the Designer 1 (floppy), and the SE. The family is still trying to sell her machine, and the SE only had about 28 hours on it. Good luck, and I hope some of the information offered will be helpful to you.

Sorry, that is my fear on getting a different machine because of all the problems mine is having. I have only worked with pes and my PED-Basic and if I couldn't use that I am afraid I'd lose all the designs I have collected.

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by meganne 29 Aug 2010

NEVER. You will never need to lose all your designs.
Pes is the standard and most new machines' software will convert from pes, except for Bernina of course which only reads ART and one other I can't remember which just now.
hugs n roses, Meganne

by leenova54 29 Aug 2010

Thanks for that info.

When i download the designs i just get them in husq.& i don't have a problem!!My buzzjust changes them??CaROLYN

I have only been collecting for a short while and I shutter to think about coverting all to a new format. Good luck to you and your new adventures.

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by roberta 29 Aug 2010

Ii have had my Designer 1 for 6 years now and i have never seen SHV as a format. And i didn't have 4D software. I had customizing.. I still use a floppy and when i download to HUS and save it in HUS i don't have to convert to anything. You make sure your dealer knows about the machine or go somewhere else who knows more. I have 4D now and still don't have to convert. Roberta

by stitchinkate 29 Aug 2010

Roberta, as soon as you use the manager to put your designs on a disk they become SHV. They are HUS before you put them through disk manager, but disk manager turns them into SHV. It's something they stopped with the next model. From the model SE and forward any format can be sent to the machine and it will read...any except ART that is.