Machine files

Different embroidery machines understand different languages. Each has its own control commands for the various machine functions. Before you can stitch a design, it must be in a format which can be interpreted by the machine. Machine or ‘stitch’ files are for direct use by embroidery machines. They contain only stitch coordinates and machine functions. They are created ‘on the fly’ when sending designs to machine. They can also be output to embroidery disk or design card.

Supported machine file formats

BERNINA V9 supports the following machine file formats:

Format

File

 

Grade

Read

Write

BERNINA A730/A200

ART

*

A

●

●

BERNINA USB stick

EXP

 

 

 

●

Janome / Elna / Kenmore

SEW

 

C

●

●

Elna Xpressive

EMD

 

C

●

●

Deco, Brother, Babylock

PEC

 

C

●

●

Deco, Brother, Babylock

PES

 

C

●

●

Husqvarna Viking / Pfaff

VP3

 

C

●

●

Husqvarna Viking / Pfaff

VIP

 

C

●

●

Husqvarna / Viking

SHV

^

C

●

●

Husqvarna / Viking

HUS

 

C

●

●

Pfaff

PCS

 

C

●

●

Pfaff

PCD

 

C

●

●

Pfaff

PCQ

 

C

●

●

Pfaff

PCM

 

C

●

●

Singer

XXX

 

C

●

●

Poem, Huskygram, Singer EU

CSD

 

C

●

●

Melco

EXP

 

C

●

●

Tajima

DST

 

C

●

●

Great Notions

GNC

 

B

●

 

* A730/A200 files can be read directly by some BERNINA machines

^ Save back as SHV but not convert to SHV