HELP please.... I am trying to turn a picture of a bin into a stitch file but when i try and view it it says its corrupt or unidentified file i have pe design 6 any idea guys please..... :(

ok nurselilly email sent back to you i like wilcom truesizer it works for me never messed with ambassador you can resize it for as big as you want hope this helped you out

well i am just overwhelmed by all this what started out as a favour for a friend has taken me more than 2 days and i still can not get a picture that looks like what i started out with. You guys are amazing and yes i do appreciate all the work that goes into digitizing designs as i am about to pull my hair out lol. i keep going back and following the book and keep trying, Marymoore i may just take you up on your offer as i have alot ot patience but little time. i will email you and see how we go :) again thanx alot for all your advice guys. :)

nurselilly is your problem solved

Nurselilly, did you get this problem solved? You are kind of jumping in off the deep end in digitizing (not a bad thing, that's what I did). First, make sure your jpg or bmp is clean. Convert it to as few colors as you can to make it out well, even though that's going to look like a paint-by-number picture. I don't know PEDesign, but I do know that my Janome Digitizer Pro will only deal with bmp's. If I try to import a jpg, I will get that unidentifiable file message. When you make it into a stitch file, that is called auto-digitizing. Just a warning, you may or may not be happy with the result. I usually am not, so then I go into the program and change stuff around, like stitch type, density, stitch angle, etc. I use Janome Digitizer Pro, which will then save the file as JAN. My machine uses JEF, and I have a flash card, like you use in a digital camera, to take files from the computer to the machine. When I go to write the design to the flash card, I write it as a JEF. That's actually the default in my program, since the program and machine are made to work together. I'm assuming that PEDesign is made to work with your machine. So however you get your designs to the machine, you should have some way to do that in your machine's language. I hope I have clarified this for you in some way, Nurselilly. You bit off a big chunk, there, you know, lol. I had visions of doing all this great stuff with my program in ten minutes or less when I first got it, then found out the hard way it wasn't so easy to do, lol. After you mess with this for a while, you'll have a good appreciation for why we are glad to *pay* for a well-digitized design, and what it takes to do it!!! Hee hee hee. Best of luck to you, yell if you need any more help. Hope I helped some, anyway. Marji

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by marymoore 25 Apr 2008

took me about a week to learn mine

Others who know much more than I do have stepped in to help. I just wanted to clarify the question and keep it near the top for more those who can help more. Sure that you will get your problem solved quickly. In the meantime, another flower for you.

nurselilly, THIS JUST MIGHT HELP YOU!!! sorry you are still having problems. I have a thought, might be wrong, but here it is anyway, see what you think. When you converted the jpg to a stitch file, I’m assuming you did it using *pe design 6*, and you said you saved it as a pem file. I’m wondering if the pem file is just a file for you to use in pe design, and not a format of an actual embroidery design. Is it possible to load the pem file into pe design, and then see if you can save it as a pes file from there. If you can’t do that you might need to re-digitise the jpg in pe design, then see if you can then save as a pes file rather than a pem file - hope you can do the first! Like I said, I could be wrong about this sweetie, but I know that software like this often has it’s own file extension for *working* files within the software, but they aren’t embroidery format files. You might just find that this is your problem, hope so for your sake – and sanity, haha. Hugs and flowers for your persistence in trying to master digitising sweetie. If this isn’t clear – please ask again, because I really want you to get this sorted.

I am sorry you are still having problems. I have not yet tried digitizing and only have a husqvarna #1+. But maybe a flower will help your frustration a bit this morning. ><>

let me know how big and what format you need it in ok?

i am bringing this to the top again so loish can see my answer and maybe help me :)

i havent solved my problem guys.... i have a picture of a bin that looks like a tub we call them skips a friend of mine has got a business and has asked me to help them do a picture of them on the front of their work shirts as a favour as they are only small and have just started out. so i scanned in the picture to my computer and i am trying to convert the picture so i can stitch it out into their work tops ( is this what they call digitizing ? ) i am not having much luck at the moment i have pe design 6 so i have been starting over agin many times but just can not work it out. Any one out there able to do this for me if i email them the picture ? i am happy to pay or help me to do it ? thanx guys for your time i appreciate it :)

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by nurselilly 24 Apr 2008

pe design 6 is a personal embroidery design software it works in with my brother sewing machine i have followed the book many times i can save it as a pem file.

How are you converting the jpeg to a stitch file? Autodigitizing, manual? How are you trying to open the file that gives you the error message - PE Design, the embroidery machine? Again forgive me if I am misunderstanding, just asking for more details to try to help.

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by loish 22 Apr 2008

nurselilly, have you solved your problem?

by nurselilly 24 Apr 2008

no i havent yet :(

it is a picture of a BIG rubbish bin i scanned it and saved it as a jpeg file and i would like to turn it into a stitch file so i can sew it out on my machine. i converted it to a stitch file but now it says its corrupt or not an embroidery file when i try and open it ? any ideas ??? and thanx all for trying to help me * 4 u all

My goodness this is way to deep and out of my reach of thought.I can't even begin to understand what marymoore is talking about never mind even thinking about!!!!!haha no offence marymoore to you it makes perfect senses i'm sure but this old mind might just become corrupt also. to me if its corrupt its corrupt just toss it out maybe I've tossed out good designs and didn't know it before.Oh well have a flower instead and GOOD luck nurselilly

This is not something I can help with, but I know we have a lot of very intelligent girls that will come to your rescue

What format is your picture in? I am not sure if you have a picture of a container or a file with filetype of .bin. Files of type .bin are usually executable programs, not pictures. Forgive me if I am completely misunderstanding. Someone else who knows PE Design will have to tell you what formats it will accept as input for digitizing into a stitch file.

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by loish 20 Apr 2008

move this up to top

ooppss sorry i was thinking like a pes file or something you was trying to open ok here is where we get into this deep now i hope this helps you i am turning my voice activator on because this is a lot to type The File Allocation Table of contents of a computer disk contains the information that determines what sectors are used for what file. The File Allocation Table (also know as FAT), is located in the first 63 sectors of your hard drive. You visually cannot see this. The first 63 sectors is known as the data sector.

The FAT file system revolves around the File Allocation Table for which it is named. Each logical volume has its own FAT, which serves two important functions: it contains the allocation information for each file on the volume in the form of linked lists of allocation units and it indicates which allocation units are free for assignment to a file that is being created or extended.

The FAT contains the information of each file or directory name, what sector the file starts in, and how large the file is. If this table (Table 1) becomes corrupted, or what is known as disk errors, there is a second (backup) table (Table 2) available for programs like Scandisk to use to fix the FAT (Table 1).

When the system crashes, no data is lost. However, a FAT system may have removed disk area from the chain of free space, but may not yet have assigned it to any permanent new data set. The CHKDSK or SCANDISK utility examines the FAT table to determine the status of every record on disk. The records which are not part of any data set may be returned to the free space chain. If Scandisk is not run to make these repairs and the chain is broken, sectors and cluster can become lost (unidentified). The file then is a corrupted file or becomes marked as free space. If enough chains are broken or lost, then you will probably have to format the drive.
ok that is all i know about that lol yes i am a computer wiz but when it comes to this darn embroidery software of mine it has me bumped lol

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by lbrow 20 Apr 2008

oh for knowledge like this & a brain to understand it all

i have pe design basic and that happened to me with a couple of designs i downloaded wilcome true sizer and opened it and the picture was there so i just converted it to pes again and it worked for me but i had one design that it did not work on there was no picture at all so that meant that when the fike was downloaded the uploader forgot info hope this helped you out some

thanx guys surely someone can help me :(

Sorry nurselilly, this is out of my expertise area, although that's never stopped me answering before, haha! But hang in there sweetie, there has to be someone here who knows of a solution. Hugs and flowers to you.

Sorry I can't help but I can move your question up to the top so everyone will see it. I'm sure someone in our Cute Family can help.