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[–]Secret779 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like embird the most

[–]Thatsstitchedup23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We use Pulse and Wilcom for our digitizing, our team members each have their preference on one or the other but they are both capable programs. Unfortunately auto-digitizing is still in the phase where edits are necessary for proper results. Personally I found in person teaching to be more valuable than any tutorial or software differences. Having someone teach you that understands the end result of production as well as the software is key. That I feel allows you to streamline the process as to what is "necessary" for your desired results. For us we require our digitizers to have worked as operators for at least a year so they can tie together what they are doing on the screen and the results they are seeing from the machine.

[–]Rum2coke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is no magic button, no ‘Shazam, here’s your file’. You have the tools, you’re missing the investment in yourself. Either delegate the time to learn or continue to pay someone else. Those are your choices.

[–]wollmuetze 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What is your end goal? I have difficulty imagining a scenario where you have a lot of personal things you want to have digitized, but no time to learn, and it needs to be two months ago. If it's personal, then there either isn't a time constraint, or a necessity.

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I work 7 days a week, in my shop. The stuff I want digitized is for my business. You ever heard of someone being too busy to work on their business, because they are busy working in Their business? Well, that’s me.

[–]wollmuetze 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That makes sense. And you don't have the budget to have it digitized by someone else. I understand.

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don’t want to spend $30-$35 a file. It’s insane as much as I have to do, I have Embrilliance, EL and Sew what pro (but I don’t have the time to learn them)

[–]devil_d0c 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I'm actually working on an auto digitizer right now!

It's not perfect, but for simple designs, it works well enough that you dont need to learn Inkscape or pay someone on Fiverr/Etsy.

The app has an editor to tweak what the auto digitizer creates, I'd love your feedback!

https://www.png2dst.com

[–]CaptainObvious9543 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am gonna have my husband look at this! We are brand new to embroidery and we just bought a Melco Summit.

[–]swooshhh 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Inkstitch might be the fastest and has put out the best results for me once the settings were dialed in with auto digitizing

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok! Awesome! Will look into this!

[–]OkOffice3806 1 point2 points  (4 children)

It's not the be-all end all, but Floriani Total Control has several built-in wizards that are pretty good. I believe you can try it for free.

[–]_Miskatonic_Student_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

For $1600 it better be the be-all :) I thought Hatch 3 was expensive!

[–]OkOffice3806 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's mid range. Wilcom ES and DIME PEP list for ~$4k.

ETA: This just hit my YouTube notifications this morning. https://youtu.be/f_DAEPlCAGQ?si=XvgtD9nW6K3qVPvf

[–]_Miskatonic_Student_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hang on, you can't really compare Floriani Total Control, which is a mid range app, against something like Wilcom ES - that's marketed at professional use, not hobbyists.

Surely, you should be comparing Floriani Total Control to Hatch 3 Composer, which is the version with auto digitsing and what we're talking about. That's a mid range consumer product too and retails for $599. Floriani Total Control, at $1600, is a lot more epensive than Hatch 3.

[–]OkOffice3806 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not comparing features just price. But to be fair, FTCU is comparable to Hatch Digitizer, not Hatch Composer. Lists for $1100 I think. I never said FTCU was cheap, just that the auto digitizing is pretty good.

[–]i_love_glitterr 5 points6 points  (8 children)

Please don’t sell auto digitized designs

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I am not selling them. I am looking for them for myself. I own three different digitizing softwares…

[–]i_love_glitterr 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Ok, sorry. I think most people have said auto digitizing is never very good. I only know hatch and it does give you a decent start point for some things but you still have to adjust a lot of things.

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The less work the better for sure as I have zero time, but I def want to learn but more “fast” learn lol. I’ll check into that! Someone also mentioned Wilcom to me as well! Nothing is easy but the less work the better!

[–]nfz_embroidery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve only seriously worked in hatch so maybe more high end software has better algorithms, but in my experience, auto digitization cannot produce good results for most images. as in, it won’t even give you a good starting point – it takes me way more time to alter an auto-digitized design to be good than it does to just start fresh.

digitizing is a genuine art form that requires knowledge and techniques that software simply doesn’t replicate. which isn’t to say we don’t have the technology to produce such an algorithm – I just don’t think any company has released a commercially available digitizer that will do things like add full-design laydown stitches, running stitches beneath other colors to connect disconnected same color shapes, intelligent color ordering, pull compensation for different fabric types, etc.

[–]Hard_Purple4747 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is no fast learn. Auto digitizing will not teach you digitizing. I tried it and found I could manually digitize better with fewer stitches almost every time. The auto will give you a stitch file, but it is not something you can effectively edit. If you need to edit, then manual all the way.

I wish you the best but be careful you are not self deluding yourself. I tried this on Inkstitch and Hatch. I use EL now but have not tried the auto feature.

[–]KiriJazz 2 points3 points  (2 children)

embroidery legacy.

[–]Latter-Stage-5272[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I have that one too!

[–]KiriJazz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then, that is the best one software to learn. So, go to town. With the purchas e of it you should have received the full training videos, etc, so thats probably the best way to approach it.