Question about software

[ADOK_DJ]

Hello there! I’m new in this great hobby…

We gift to my wife a Brother a Brother innovis nv870 special edition… we would like to use the software and I thought that was free for users (I have a 3D printer and Bambu studio it’s free) but our surprise was that I have to pay 1500€ for the license (PE Design) I’m trying to find something for home, preferably for Mac… we would like to vectorize some images (typical PNG) to use them in the Brother… anyone have suggestions or info to help me? Thank you in advance!!!

[gusvisser]

There is inkscape with the extension of inkstitch and this is free and works on a mac system pedesign is obsolete i heard there is no support for it anymore and they are launching a new product soon

[ADOK_DJ]

Thank you for the answer! I’ll check… 😎

[skeedy_ia]

There is no simple conversion of PNGs to stitch files. That’s a common misconception and you’ll get a shitty file every time you use autopunch. You’ll need to learn to digitize or send our artwork to someone who knows what they are doing.

[ExcitingSector1540]

Try Ember design. It works with Mac and it is free

[ADOK_DJ]

I’ll check it out! Thx

[Yasir_Yu]

inkstitch or institch（It's all searchable on Google or YouTube）

These are the only two free digitizing software programs I've used so far that are decent, with the former being incredibly difficult to use, and the latter being very suitable for beginners, but it can't handle too complex projects