Ultimate Embroidery & Multi-Decoration Softwarefor professional digitizers, embroidery shops, industry trainers and educators, and apparel decorators. With new technical and creative stitching effects, even faster digitizing and over 200 professional embroidery fonts, you can digitize more creative advanced designs quickly with full professional control.
Customize your embroidery business
Take your embroidery further. Carefully crafted features designed to widen imaginations, boost efficiency and expand your business. Buy add-on Elements to suit your professional needs.
e4 MUST HAVE! New Spiral Fills Element. Fill shapes with smooth spiral stitching effects.
for professional digitizers, embroidery shops, industry trainers and educators, and apparel decorators. With new technical and creative stitching effects, even faster digitizing and over 200 professional embroidery fonts, you can digitize more creative advanced designs quickly with full professional control.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is included, fully integrated and provides full vector and bitmap graphics software for multi-decoration, printing, cutting, engraving and more.
Our team has found the new e4 user interface easy to use. There is a quick learning curve and it has enabled our machinists to fix problems without asking digitizers for help. We are really impressed by the new Job Order Feature as we no longer require printed worksheets, meaning few mistakes.”
Dean Roscoe, Owner, Paramount Embroidery, UK
Overview
With advanced lettering and team name software which includes over 200 embroidery fonts, extensive technical and creative embroidery features, and professional editing and digitizing, you can create logos, sports and fashion designs quickly with full professional control.
Easy graphics digitizing combined with very productive traditional digitizing tools provide professional digitizing for both experienced and aspiring embroiderers.
Use the new integrated Design Library to find designs in seconds by customer, order, date, stitch count and other text or parameters, all within the software.
Create and manage design digitizing requests more efficiently. New tools enhance your business productivity meaning you get more quotes and jobs through your shop each day.
Quickly prepare design mock-ups on high resolution garment images and email .PDF approval sheets directly to customers. Save basic order and job production information right into the Wilcom .EMB design file for easy reference.
Customize your embroidery business
Take your embroidery further. Carefully crafted features designed to widen imaginations, boost efficiency and expand your business.
Features
Advanced Integrated Design Library
Search designs in seconds by customer, order, date or any text field
Designs are automatically indexed for fast search. No manual categorization required
Browse designs from all folders in one screen, or folder by folder
Group and sort designs by customer, order, date, folder, design status, stitches and more
Quickly see recent designs by date, no matter what folder they are in
Batch operations on multiple selected designs. Open, convert, print, stitch and catalogue.
Order Job Feature
Save customer, order & job details in the .EMB design file. A separate database is not required
Identifies the garment, quantities, sizes, colors and approval status
Display job details with high resolution product mock-ups in .PDF for customer approval
Estimate stitch counts from customer artwork using enhanced Auto-Digitizing
Create digitizing requests as .EMB designs and manage status in the Design Library
Minimize printed worksheets by sending .EMB with job details to production computer.
Enhanced Product Visualizer and Customer Approvals
Create mock-ups of designs on high resolution garment images in the required colors
Wide selection of high resolution predefined generic products included
Add your own custom product images
Move and re-size product images within the design
Print new .PDF approval sheets with job details or email directly to customers for approval
Save and record the product image directly in the .EMB design file for future use.
More efficient design workspace
4K monitor support, large or small icons, optional labels
Improved arrangement of toolbox tools with quick‑access flyouts
Switch between multiple open designs effortlessly with new design tabs
Visualize stitching sequence with the new Stitch Player using classic media player controls
New Color toolbar commands and My Threads docker for easier color management
Large, full featured Open dialog displays design details
“Open Recent Designs” with thumbnail view.
NEW Creative and Technical Stitching
Sculpture, Raised Satin, Square Stitch Outlines
Raised Satin, Square Stitch, Double Square fills
Predefined Motif Fills now standard
Radial Stitch Effect
Double Tatami Underlay
Adjustable Overlap Lap Corners
Improved Auto-Applique’
New Satin Tie-off method
Trapunto Effect now standard.
Improved Auto-Digitizing
New instant Auto-Digitizing of bitmaps with one click
Improved interactive Auto-Digitizing dialog
Enhanced quality satin and fill stitching, better optimized for logo design
Supports full color bitmaps with transparency (24 and 32 bit)
Optional cropping / masking of bitmap artwork images
Optional bitmap image adjustments before stitching.
NEW and Improved Lettering
25 NEW embroidery fonts including 3D foam, logo fonts and specialty fonts
NEW predefined “Lettering Art” envelope shapes
Easier selection of embroidery fonts by style or type
Expanded capabilities and easier to use Team Names feature
Improved quality of automatic TrueType/OpenType stitching.
Faster Digitizing for Professionals and Newcomers
Enhanced traditional digitizing tools for fast production digitizing
New graphics digitizing tools for easier digitizing
Create embroidered outlines and fills with the same shape tools
Convert outlines to/from fills in a single click with the new stitch types toolbar
Add or remove holes and stitch angles
Create drawing objects as vector outlines or fills in the same way
Much faster handling and processing of very large designs.
Enhanced Monogramming
69 professional predefined monogram designs or create your own
Extensive but easy to use monogramming user interface
Separate tabs for Designs, Letters, Ornaments and Borders
Advanced stitching parameters hidden unless asked for
Use embroidery fonts or TrueType fonts.
7 add-on Elements Included Now as STANDARD
Virtual Decoration – Create high resolution embroidery TrueView images for digital printing.
Vector Drawing – Create and edit vector graphics directly in Wilcom designs.
Bling – Create and output bling designs for stones, rhinestones, beads and spangles.
Auto-Digitize Bitmaps – One click converts bitmap graphics into embroidery.
Kiosk Mode – Ultra simple personalised designs for retail shops.
Auto Shaping – Automatically weld intersect or overlap embroidery and graphic objects.
Freehand – Integrated freehand drawing of stitched outlines and fills plus selected details from other elements are also now also included.
Why Update?
Our favorite reasons to update to e4 Designing:
New and Improved Digitizing
Choose between our new graphics style approach to digitizing or the improved traditional digitizing methods. There is an even more comprehensive professional control over all digitizing input values.
New and Improved Technical and Creative Stitching
Improved auto-underlay, Lap Corners and Tie-off stitching. New Sculpture, Raised Satin, Square and Double Square stitch types. New Spiral Fill and Radial Fill creative stitching techniques. Improved Cross Stitch copying and mirroring.
New Design Library
Powerful design management capabilities with high speed search for customer designs, all within the software. Find by customer, order, date or any design information. This feature replaces the aged Design Explorer.
Order Job Feature
Save customer, order & job details directly into the .EMB design file. Create design workflows and manage design requests, estimates, customer approvals and production worksheets all within the software. A separate database is not required.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8 INCLUDED
Fully integrated and bundled within the software. There are many new and improved Corel features specifically relevant to embroidery, multi-decoration, printing, cutting and engraving. It includes an extensive clipart and font library. Easy to install and Windows 10 compatible.
Enhanced Product Visualizer
New high-resolution garment images can be used to create accurate order mock-ups. Resize, re-color and save directly into the .EMB design file. Print new PDF approval sheets with all the job details or email them directly to customers.
New and Improved Lettering
The world class Wilcom lettering got even better plus there are 25 NEW professionally digitized fonts too! Now 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 management and Team Names feature.
Improved Auto-Digitizing
Greatly improved image processing and vector auto-digitizing capabilities for commercial use. Generate automatic stitch counts for quotations and job estimates. Simple logo designs can be auto-digitized and edited instead of outsourcing.
Enhanced Monogramming
New easy to use monogramming interface with 69 professional predefined monogram designs, or create your own. Take greater control of your monogram letter sizing, spacing and stitching.
More Efficient Design Workspace
Switch between multiple open designs effortlessly with the new design tabs. An improved arrangement of toolbox tools with quick-access flyouts helps you work faster. Visualize stitching sequences with the new Stitch Player using classic media player controls. New Color toolbar commands and My Threads docker for easier color management. Support for 4K monitors with optional large or small icons.
System Requirements
Please ensure you have the correct hardware to ensure the software runs well. EmbroideryStudio e4 is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 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.
Minimum Requirements
CPU – Intel® Core i3 or AMD Athlon™ 64
Operating System – Windows 7 32-bit with latest updates and service pack
Browser – Microsoft Edge or IE11.0
Memory – 4 GB
Free Hard Disk Space – 40 GB
Graphics Card and Monitor – Support for 32bit and 1600 x 900 resolution
USB Ports – 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
Internet Connection – Required for software updates and dongle registration
Recommended
CPU – Latest Intel® Core i7
Operating System – Windows 10 64-bit with latest updates and service pack
Browser – Microsoft Edge or later
Memory – 8 GB
Free Hard Disk Space – 256 GB or more (Solid State Drive)
Graphics Card and Monitor – Support for Highest Color 32bit and 1920 x 1080 resolution or higher
USB Ports – 2 free for installation (3 for upgrades)
Sound Card – Required for multimedia training
Backup – External hard drive, cloud storage or other
Internet Connection – Required for software updates and dongle registration
Machine Formats
The software works with all major embroidery machine brands
Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio e4 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).
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.
