Editing, Monogramming, Lettering, and Machine Connection Software
Combine all the features of EmbroideryStudio Lettering with advanced embroidery editing capabilities. This provides powerful software for non-digitizing staff in a custom embroidery shop or production facility.
Full editing control over .EMB object properties allows for recoloring, reshaping, and resequencing of all design objects. Change densities and other settings to suit different fabrics or sizes.
With over 226 professionally digitized embroidery fonts and direct machine connections, you can create and stitch new variations of existing designs quickly and efficiently.
Correct small technical mistakes or incorporate simple customer changes without sending it back to your digitizer, saving time and increasing your embroidery expertise.
- Overview
- Features
- Why Update?
- System Requirment
- Machine Formats
Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4 Editing is powerful advanced editing, automatic lettering, customizing and machine connection software purposely developed for non-digitizing staff in a retail embroidery shop or production facility.
- Handle quality assurance elements of embroidery production
- Save time and money by editing outsourced embroidery designs
- Prepare designs for production
- World-leading lettering can be added to your own designs or even those outsourced
- Create beautiful monograms
- Team naming for sports and workwear
- Low-cost embroidery software for admin and production staff
The industry standard for embroidery software
If you outsource your embroidery digitizing, nine times out of ten, your contractor will use the Wilcom EMB file format. Why not streamline the process by using the same software so that you can easily edit the designs without losing quality or stitch data?
Customize your embroidery business
Take your embroidery further. Carefully crafted features designed to widen imaginations, boost efficiency and expand your business.
More Efficient Design Workspace
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Select and Edit Parts of Designs More control and simpler than ever! Using the Reshape or Stitch Edit tool, modify shapes or change stitch settings or effects options. Even stitch files such as DST are recognized as objects, giving you full, object based control and eliminating the need for stitch-by-stitch editing.
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Advanced Design Processing The Color-Object List makes sequencing your design as easy as drag ‘n drop. Select objects by color or stitch type to change their properties or resequence your design. You can also group, hide or lock individual objects for improved editing.
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Advanced Integrated Design Library
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Order Job Feature
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Enhanced Product Visualizer and Customer Approvals
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NEW and Improved Lettering
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Enhanced Monogramming
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Easier Standard Team Names Speed up production and don’t waste time manual handling of team names! Mail-Merge style features import a list of names, auto-fits them to your baseline and outputs for either single or multi-head production.
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Smart Corners Don’t like the way the digitizer has handled corners in the design? The Smart Corners feature reduces the number of stitches and the risk of bunched, distorted embroidery in sharp corners. |
Save time and money with fast, quality stitch results Optimize your production with full control of underlay, pull compensation, connectors, tie ins/offs, trims, jump and stop machine functions. You can even edit individual stitches to address any problem areas. |
Quick editing for different fabric types A design created for a towel can now be stitched on silk scarf with Auto Fabric Assistant. This tool automatically applies the most suitable underlay, pull compensation and stitch density settings for your chosen fabric. |
Send designs to your embroidery machine with ease Stitch Manager, Machine Manager and Connection Manager give you all the options to make sending designs to production a snap! You can also edit machine format values to get the best results. |
Why Update? With the long anticipated release of EmbroideryStudio e4, there has never been a better time to update your Wilcom software. There are many reasons why keeping up to date with the latest technology is important. Firstly, ensure your business doesn’t suffer when your old computer crashes and it’s time to replace it with the newer hardware and operating software. You don’t want to be caught with any downtime. Not just that, but the latest EmbroideryStudio is so much more powerful that it runs faster and comes with both online and personal support. New features to help you work faster, improve your processes and get more business done: |
Now over 200 professional embroidery fonts Wilcom is famous for quality lettering. Use any of the 200+ pre-digitised fonts for speed, precision and zero thread breaks! You can also convert any TrueType and OpenType fonts with ease.
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Enhanced Monogramming 69 professional predefined monogram designs or create your own |
Advanced Integrated Design Library
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Order Job Feature
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Enhanced Product Visualizer and Customer Approvals
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More efficient design workspace
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Multi-user Network Dongles No need to worry about dongles going missing, if you have several operators using Wilcom software they can now be purchased and installed with just one Network security dongle. |
Hoop It! Streamline production with automatic hoop selection and avoid those unnecessary frame crashes |
New and Improved Lettering The world class Wilcom lettering got even better plus there are with 10 NEW professionally digitized fonts PLUS support for Arabic and Thai languages! Now Includes with Unicode support and OpenType Glyphs for fancy lettering New 3D foam, outline, running stitch and two color fonts. There is also an improved font preview management and Team Names feature. |
PC Specifications for EmbroideryStudio e4.5
Please ensure you have the correct hardware to ensure the software runs well. EmbroideryStudio e4.5 is compatible with 64-bit Windows 10 operating systems. If you prefer, you can also run the software on a MAC.
Note: An internet connection is required for updates and dongle registration.
The following are the minimum and recommended system requirements for EmbroideryStudio e4.5.
Minimum Requirements
- CPU – Intel® Core i3 (3rd Gen or later) or AMD Athlon™ FX-6350 or later
- Operating System – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition
- Browser – IE 11.0 or later
- Memory – 8 GB
- Free Hard Disk Space – 40 GB
- Graphics Card and Monitor- Support for Highest Color (32bit) and resolution (1600 x 900)
- USB Ports – 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
- Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
- Internet Connection – Required Product activation and registration, periodic software updates, access to news, community, product blog, tutorials, and product documentation and during installation, to download Windows features.
Recommended
- CPU – Latest Generation Intel Core i7 processor (4.0 GHz +)
- Operating System – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition with the latest updates
- Browser – Microsoft Edge or later
- Memory – 32 GB
- Hard Disk Space – 256 GB or more (Solid State Drive)
- Free Disk Space – 60 GB or more
- Graphics Card and Monitor – Support for Highest Color 32bit and 1920 x 1080 resolution or higher. 2GB or more of graphics memory (non-integrated)
- Monitor – Dual Monitor
- USB Ports – Required for security device. 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
- Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
- Backup – External hard drive, cloud storage or other
- Internet Connection – Required Product activation and registration, periodic software updates, access to news, community, product blog, tutorials, and product documentation and during installation, to download Windows features.
Machine Formats supported by EmbroideryStudio e4.5
The software works with all major embroidery machine brands
Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4.5 provides all the brains to your machine. As the industry’s universal embroidery software, we offer support for all the major embroidery machines including Barudan, Tajima, Brother, SWF, Melco, Happy, ZSK and more.
Embroidery Machines
Machine Format | Description |
Barudan | This format is used for many Barudan machines. It supports up to 9 needles. The Barudan format is suitable for paper tape, FMC disks, and the DSB file format. |
Barudan Chenille | This format is used only for the older BELM – A3C series of Barudan Chenille Machines with 5 Chenille colors. Newer models use Barudan FDR-II Chenille Combination. |
Barudan FDR-II Chenille Combination | This format is used for newer models of Barudan Chenille machines supporting 6 chenille colors such as the BEDYH and BEDSH. Using this format, you can digitize pure Chenille or even a combination of Chenille and Lockstitch in the one design. |
Barudan FDR-II Lockstitch | This format is currently used for BED* series lockstitch machines and is the standard for all new Barudan lockstitch machine models. It supports up to 15 needles and optional sequin attachments. |
Barudan FDR-II Twin Sequin | This is a Barudan twin sequin machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Barudan machine with a twin-sequin attachment. |
Barudan FDR-II Twin Sequin Chenille Combination | This is a Barudan twin sequin and Chenille combination machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Barudan machine with a twin-sequin and chenille attachment. |
Barudan Z Series | This format is used for Barudan Z series machines with 10 or more needles. |
Bernina | |
Brother / Babylock | |
Dahao | |
Happy | |
Inbro | This format is used for main types of Inbro machines. |
Janome | |
Laesser | Laesser MST file format for schiffli |
Melco | This format is used for main types of Melco machines. |
Melco Chenille | This format is used for Melco-enabled Chenille machines. |
Pfaff | This format is used for main types of Pfaff machines. |
Pocket machine | |
Schiffli | This format is used for Schiffli machines. |
SWF | This format is used for main types of SWF machines. |
SWF Twin Sequin Machine | This is a SWF twin sequin machine. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on SWF machine with a twin-sequin attachment. |
Tajima | This format is used for main types of Tajima machines. |
Tajima TBF | This is used for Tajima needle addressing capable machines. TBF (Tajima Binary Format) file format is a more intelligent machine format which holds needle addressing information. The design needs to be digitized using this machine format for it to run on Tajima machines with a twin-sequin attachment. |
Tajima TMCE-100 | This format is used for Chenille-enabled Tajima machines. |
Tajima TMCE-600 | This format is used for Chenille-enabled Tajima machines. |
Toyota | This format is used for main types of Toyota machines. |
Zangs | This is the format for Zangs and Marco brand machines and pre-1988 ZSK machines without trimmers. |
ZSK 1 | This format is for ZSK machines that have 7 or fewer needles – generally those older than 1991. |
ZSK 2 | This format is for ZSK machines that have more than 7 needles and those characterized by a single-top thread trimmer. |
ZSK TC | This format is for ZSK machines that accept Transport Code Disks (DOS format disks). |
SWF | This format is used for main types of SWF machines with improved support for .EBD. |
Please note that some machine formats and file formats are tied to certain elements like schiffli and chenille.
Rhinestone Machines
Wilcom software can read and write .YNG file format for Yongnam GemMaster v2.9 machines. Bling files can be send directly to the CAMS machine.
How to connect my Wilcom software to my machine?
Helpful hints and tips on connecting your Wilcom software to your machine can be found in our Support website and in the User Manual provided with your software.