Are you into unusual embroidery designs? With clever details? Using the professional software, creative Digitizing, you can convert any picture you like into an embroidery design and perfect it with an enormous choice of fill patterns, stitches and borders down to the last detail.

The freehand functions of creative Digitizing offer you boundless creative possibilities! Determine individual image areas and choose from over 100 fill patterns and many decorative stitches! You can even set the desired angle of stitching...


Features & Benefits

QuickStitch features
QuickStitch Fill with Holes
Click in an area of the picture and the stitches appear with your choice of 100 fill patterns. Include a satin stitch border if you wish, and set the angle of stitching to any degree. Insert holes where you choose within the fill area.

QuickStitch Double Trace
To outline or mark out a design area click on a line and two lines of running stitch are automatically produced. Choose stitch length from 1 mm to 6 mm for the individual stitches.

QuickStitch Quadruple Trace.
Create beautiful quilting embroideries with this feature - click on a line and four lines of running stitch are automatically produced.

QuickStitch Running, Double, Triple Stitch
To outline an area automatically with running, double or triple stitch, use for stabilizing, markouts and quilting designs.

QuickStitch Border
Click in an area to create a satin border with any combination of straight lines and curves auto-matically; select 1 to 12 mm for the border width

QuickStitch Applique
To create an appliqué automatically. When selected this function makes an outline of Double stitch to secure the applique fabric, followed by a Stop command so fabric can be trimmed away and finished with a Satin Border.

QuickStitch Tie-Off
Choose from 5 tie-offs to automatically tie-off your stitch.

Freehand Features
Freehand Fill with Holes
Place points around an area of the picture and the stitches appear with your choice of 100 fill patterns. Include a satin stitch border if you wish, and set the angle of stitching to any degree. Insert holes where you choose within the fill area

Satin Areas
Choose satin or column fill rings as well as straight, curved, or borders of satin stitch for extra creativity

Column Fill
Select one of 12 fill patterns for your satin columns with simple on-screen editing

Feathered Satin
Texture both edges of a satin stitch for special embroidery effects on fur or flowers. Choose to texture only the top or bottom of the satin stitch

Single, Running, Double and Triple Stitch
Add individual stitches from 1 to 12 mm in length and straight or curved lines of running, double and triple stitch from 1 to 6 mm. You can even create a running stitch ring.

Create the perfect picture
Drawing Tools and Lettering
Draw lines, squares or rectangles, circles or ellipses in any color with varying line thickness, foreground and background colors. Add text using any TrueType font on your computer. Load Minipics to build up a picture in the image window. 50 Minipics are included with your Pfaff creative Digitizing software.

Edit Images
Crop and remove pieces from the picture, for example the background. Enlarge, reduce, copy, cut, or paste all or parts of your design. Rotate part or all of the picture to any degree. Mirror from side to side or end to end.

Improve Images
Scanned pictures often have slight blemishes. With the Filters, improve such pictures to make a clean image for the QuickStitch features. The Despeckle filter removes smaller color areas to improve the finished design. Expander thickens lines to make them more suitable for the Trace features. Use the Monochrome filter to change selected areas or whole images to solid black and white, then alter colors as desired. The Outline filter separates color areas, which can then be changed to different colors.

Unlimited hoop sizes
Select hoop size or create your own prefered size for your design.

Customize the screen
Set your screen background to any color in the 16-million Windows color palette. Create your own personal toolbars. Change the size of icons to make them easier to see. Cool look icons for the most up-to-date screen.

Quick3D with changeable background
Viewing your design in Quick3D, for the background texture you can choose any color.

Printing
Print a design info sheet in color with the thread shades of your preferred manufacturer to use as a sewing guide.

Edit your design
Undo
Go back up to six steps in either or both of the image or stitch creation processes.

Edit areas
Change any part of a design in the Editing Window. You can change the colors, pattern, density, angle and so on, then click on the Digitizing Window to see the results in stitches immediately.

Insert and delete objects
Add and remove new stitch areas, color changes and stops for appliqué or foam designs.

View Color Layers and Object Types
View by selected color layers or view by object type (stitch, satin or fill). Choose to view any combination of colors or object types within the design for ease of editing.

Zoom
Enlarge an area up to 800 % for ease of designing. Zoom to Fit adjusts the design to the available screen area. Use pan mode to move easily around the design while magnification is increased.

Import Many formats
Import pictures directly into VIP Digitizing in many formats: Bitmap (.bmp), JPEG (.jpg), PCX (.pcx), Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Encapsulated PostScript (.eps), Kodak Photo CD (.pcd), Tiff (.tif), PNG (.png), Windows Metafiles (.wmf), Enhanced Metafiles (.emf).

Save stitch files
The Embroidery System VIP Digitizing allows you to create designs in many different formats and use with other manufacturers' embroidery machines: Brother/Babylock/Bernina PEC (.pec), Brother Babylock/Bernina PES (.pes), Compucon/Singer PSW (.xxx), Husqvarna Viking/Pfaff (.vip), Husqvarna (.hus), Janome (.sew), Melco (.exp), Pfaff (.pcs), Tajima (.dst) and Toyota (.10).

Design Outline Files
Load and save Design Outline (.can) files to keep the image and stitch information together in case you wish to modify your design after stitching out.

Copy
Copy your design to other Embroidery System VIP programs.

Help and Tutorials
A printed User's Guide and extensive on-screen help provide advice and help ensure perfect results. Listen to the Personal Tutor for spoken help with program options. Learn the program quickly with interactive tutorials that help you to 'click through' the QuickStart Exercises.

VIP Configure
Use the VIP Configure utility to choose the default thread manufacturer and stitch file output format and 3D background options and to set the Real Size for your monitor.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PC with Intel Pentium processor or 100 % compatible (600MHz recommended)
Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP*
16 MB RAM (64 MB recommended)
160 MB hard disk space (for full install)
SVGA monitor, 1024 x 768 resolution, high color (16 million colors recommended)
Mouse
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Serial port (COM)
USB port_

This product requires the use of a USB protection device. If your computer is running Windows® 95/NT, or doesn't have a USB-port, ask your dealer for a parallel port solution.