Specifications
Pro-Stitcher Features
- Carriage/Flexirack System
- 12" (30mm) color touchscreen computer mounts onto a stitch-regulated quilting machine
- Entire system operates from a single screen
- Includes more than 900 designs, including an extensive showcase of motifs from your favorite designers
- Switch between computer-guided and free-motion quilting at the touch of a button
- Resize, rotate and repeat designs to fit specific areas
- Skew or align designs to fit any area with three or more points
- Move designs into position by simply moving your finger across the screen
- Stretch and resize a design using onscreen handles
- Define and fill an area with a design, using two-corner (rectangles) or multi-point (any shape) tools
- Save and move areas
- Two-point rotation for border designs and fitting odd angles
- Precisely reposition designs using the center point, start point, end point, any corner of the design area or any point within the design
- Crop inside or outside of your area to fit your quilt, with the option to close the jumps or leave them open
- Create new start and end points anywhere along a design path, including every 1/100th of an inch (.25mm), at design points, and at jump points.
- Customizable speed and stitches-per-inch
- Micro tie-off or tack function
- Seamless integration with Pro-Stitcher Designer™ for designing and adjusting your own patterns at the longarm machine or on your computer
- Mark and record multiple points for accurate stitch-in-the-ditch quilting
- Onscreen grid and ruler to measure designs or area on quilt
- Reorder designs for stitching
- Horizontal and vertical channel lock
- Help menus
- Set Quilting Space on the workspace to represent the quilting space available
- Display Stitch Stats under the Settings tab to check the number of stitches, the amount of time, and the amount of thread it will take to stitch out a selected design
- Baste popup warning appears when Baste is activated and Run is selected
- Snap to grid option for Mark and Area tools
- Set quilt designs to load at Crosshairs or Load Point to Point
Easy-To-Use Quilting Options
- Quilt edge-to-edge or block patterns with confidence in a few simple steps
- Simple and accurate stitch-in-the-ditch
- EZ Record: record unique digital designs for future use (newly created designs can be saved on a USB or the Pro-Stitcher hard drive to be resized, repositioned or edited)
- Built-in ruler tool for measuring in any direction
Advanced Technology
- Silent, integrated motor-control systems with fluid motion control
- No additional computer needed to run the Pro-Stitcher
- Separate PC connected to the internet is required for downloading new designs and software updates
- USB port to easily upload digital patterns
Pro-Stitcher Designer Features
- Full-featured, vector-based editing and digitizing software to create your own digital quilting files
- Easy-to-learn user interface and features
- Free lifetime program updates
- Full user support with manual, tutorials, and videos
- Design and stitch motif library
- Print design catalog
- Compatible with all major longarm quilting file formats
- Import and export vector formats
- Batch save in all quilting formats
- Draw original designs with pencil, line, curve, three-point arc and bezier tools
- Customize, edit and merge existing designs
- Use design points and anchors for fine-tuned customization
- Create quilt designs from artwork using trace tools
- Audition quilt patterns and preview with slow redraw
- Use autoshapes to quickly draw original quilt patterns
- Create repeated motifs with the carousel and reflect features
- Convert True Type fonts to artwork
- Add seam allowances to appliqué
- Customizable grids, including diagonal grid
- Print pantographs and tear-away stencils for use with home sewing machines and non-robotic longarm quilting machines
- Quickly preview how designs repeat while drawing
- Repeat designs to create edge-to-edge layouts
- Fill shapes with cross-hatching, wave fills, stippling and more
- Use fills around a design
- Turn shapes into appliqué designs with a mouse click
Minimum System Requirements
Windows 8 – 8.1; 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2; 1 gigabyte (GB) (32- bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) RAM; 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) hard disk space; Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM drive; USB Port; 800 x 600 Display; Mouse; Internet Access.
File Formats
- OPENS: HQF, HQV, HQA, HQW, QLI, CQP, SSD, TXT, IQP, QCC, PAT, BQM, ANS, common embroidery files
- IMPORTS: SVG, AI, EPS, EMF, WMF, DXF, PLT, FCM, TT (true type fonts), BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF, GIF
- SAVE AS AND EXPORTS: SVG, PNG, JPG, HQF, HQV, HQA, HQW, QLI, CQP, SSP, TXT, IQP, PAT, BQM, SLT
- EXPORTS: SVG, AI, PLT, DXF, FCM, CS2, LDF, HQF, HQA, HQW, DQP, SSD, TXT, IQP, QLI, PAT, BQM, SLT, QCC