Brian's Blog: Leaping In - All Comments

re: Back From the Workshop

txz06ce — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:32:19 GMT

I'm very new to all of this computer stuff. I purchased the Embrilliance program and thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been having the best time using it and best of all, it is easy to understand (I'm a bit computer illiterate). My husband is my I-T guy and I'm lost without his help. We're looking forward to the digitizing program y'all are working on next. Again, thank you sooooo much.

re: Back From the Workshop

RosemaryG — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:42:54 GMT

We're probably going to buy an iMac this year and I was wondering about software for my machine. I have a Brother 1500D and use PE-Design 7, which is not very easy to use, the Help is not, and most times I need advice at 10:15 pm when my dealer is closed. I'm very familiar with Photoshop and have a zillion fonts on my computer -- some of which will transfer to the Mac. Is Embrilliance the software for me?

re: Back From the Workshop

mary31849 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:57:58 GMT

I just bought a Janoe 300E . I have vista PC software. Will this work for y machine. Thank you, Mary I have the JEF files

re: Back From the Workshop

gloriawr — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:46:47 GMT

How does this compare with Janome's Customizer 1100 which I don't believe splits designs?

re: Back From the Workshop

gardentilly — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:48:24 GMT

I think this is a great idea. I wish I had heard of this a few weeks ago. I ordered the 5D and this is what I wanted all the time

re: Take The Quiz!

pat71896 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:46:11 GMT

That is very funny! What about when:

The design I selected is perfect, it sews perfectly, it washes and wears perfectly?

5 Points, I am using quality items for my project

4 Points, I am using tried and true techniques

3 Points, I have been properly trained

2 Points, I am a confident embroiderer

14 Points (total of all the above) I am an AnnTheGran subscriber!!

Pat

re: Take The Quiz!

SherrylD — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:07:56 GMT

That's cute!

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

britonleap — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:30:22 GMT

Hi!

We do have Poly X40 thread in our database and you'll see it soon in the thread list! Thanks for the prompting to get this done.

Also for anyone viewing this, we have released version 1.44 - available as a free update which you can download from the MacEmb website. It has a few bug fixes (everything reported thus far) and a couple feature requests.

We continue to make the product better thanks to the suggestions from all of you.

Thanks!

P.S. We're not far from bringing out the next Mac product! It's been a long time in development, but you can be sure we'll let our friends here at ATG know as soon as possible!

-b

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

billjane442 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:16:02 GMT

I just received my software Convert It MAC! Thank you! I have a simple question, I don't see Poly X40 on the list of threads. Am I missing this one under a different name??

re: It's Adorable You!

TheComputerist — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:44:07 GMT

What a great idea. I had the same question, how to combine a really terrific photo with embroidery.

You hit the nail on the head! Thanks!!!

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

britonleap — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:20:48 GMT

Hi!

I called over to Baby Lock to get the answers. There are some Brother and Baby Lock embroidery machines which can only see certain USB stick capacities. Specifically some machines could not use a stick over 1Gb

By way of example, I have an original Ellegante which I keep for the purpose of testing. That machine won't read any of my fancy new 4Gb USB sticks, but it can read my old 512Mb SanDisk USB stick just fine. The Ellegante 2 however removes that restriction.

Many of the models have support to read a CD drive, but not all drives have the required support apparently. There is a list of drives on the Baby Lock website called "USB Media Reference Chart". www.babylock.com/downloads

The link is about halfway down the page on the right.

Writing of the USB stick by a Mac is not a problem at all for the machines - we do it all the time. :-)

So, if a lower capacity drive does not solve the issue, have your dealer or Baby Lock take a look at the machine. But I'd be surprised if capacity isn't the issue.

-Brian

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

cjohns — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:20:25 GMT

Quick question. We purchased Convert It Mac and my wife loves it. She sits with her mac book pro on her lap and spends hours going through embroidery files and CDs that she hasn't used in years. We are a mac mostly household with only one laptop PC for embroidery needs. The only problem we have is when we burn an embroidery CD or use a memory stick to transfer the embroidery patterns (in both ART and PES formats), her BabyLock embroidery machine will read neither. Both the CD and the memory stick are pc initialized so that shouldn't be the problem. Any thoughts?

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

britonleap — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:52:45 GMT

We've got your request on the list, Sylvia. Thanks for the post!

re: Leaping In, With a Mac

sylgould — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:41:00 GMT

Thank you so much for creating a viable embroidery program for the Mac where it has been sorely needed! The free QuickLook plugin for Cover Flow on the Mac is worth the trial download itself.

My husband and I are both technical people and have made our careers in the IT industry. He converted me to the Mac-side several years ago, so we are now a Mac-household (6 running Macs I believe). We do own 1 token PC since not all software will run on a Mac. :-) I do run Windows on my Mac when I need to get to my PC-only embroidery software. Although I am not a digitizer, I too should attend a S.A.F.E. meeting. :-) The one thing that I would love to see on Convert It, Mac, s a database/catalog feature. That would be enough to greatly cut my dependence on Windows.

Thanks again for filling the gap for Mac compatible embroidery software! Looking forward to even more great things to come.

Warm Regards,

- Sylvia in Virginia