Digitizing Software: I know it has come up many times, and of course the offerings keep changning...so I am going to after YEARS of longing and scrounging and making due try to make a decision.
I would LOVE other peoples input, both the good and bad and their own experience with digitizing software. Ideally i would have a Million $ and could get a whole bunch of top end and try them all LOL! but i get to do this once, and I will be working hard with the grocery and kids needs budget to make it happen, so I really want it to be something I am happy about. Thank you kindly for any info you can share!
I saw a thread here about the new Hatch software...and @msjames said it was BETTER than Floriani! for stitch output!!!!
I did the Embird trial...I did not like the interface all that much, and the feature that i am really looking for (to digitize directly from an SVG) is not available in the trial version----and of course for digitizing means buying all of the modules plus the extra module for the SVG input, which i don't even know how well it works.
After a dealer visit I became convinced Floriani was the best...best cost 2x as much as the others that are already crazy! But they add the lure of free updates for life.... Then i read msjames comment....
and of course that brought me back to Hatch....
And also started looking into Embrilliance Artistic Stitch 3, which is about $1000, of course there are other add-ons for instance stitch density is an ADD_ON! and that boggles my mind!!! they do have a trial version, you can use all aspects of the software, and i can import the SVG, BUT I cannot test the actual stitchout quality.
Ideally i would sit down, give myself the same amount of time to digitize the same simple SVG on each software, and then stitch it out to see which yields the best results....but the Embrilliance demo program will not save --so cannot be stitched :(
please chime in with any comparison, what you love, what you wish you had, what you wasted your money on ( a fear that has had me not using my embroidery machine much for years while i figure this out LOL)
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and aside from Pes issue i have not heard anything but good on the Hatch.... so still not ready for a decision, but I am going to keep working towards it!
However, like others have mentioned before, the results are typically not great. They might ok for smaller / simpler designs, but those are typically designs which you aren also easily digitize yourself :)
As a embroidery noob starting with Embrid was really nice. Its affordable but powerful enough do everything you need.