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how do you downnload embroidery designs for the brother ped basic?

November 13th, 2012 2 comments

my documents on my computer have embroidery design their but the ped basic can’t open them

1) Check out the Online Manual for your machine at this link:
http://www.brother-usa.com/Data/Documentation/HSM/User/UM_PED-Basic_191915001.pdf
2) See Page 6. You need to use PES files.
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As I see it, you can make some Folders on Your PC such as MyDesigns, Downloads, Fresh From the Web or any name that seems logical to you. On my PC I have a folder where I save my Embroidery Downloads to. Let us call this Folder "Downloads". (Don’t use the quotes). Make a Sub-folder called "Brother Freebies". Make as many sub-folders as seems logical to keep things organized. You can also have a sub-folder called "Purchased". Get the idea?

I surf the web and find freebies. Let us go to the Broter Site, which has plenty of freebies in the PES format. Download these files. If they are zipped, you can later on unzip them. Now, you will have a collection of Embroidery Files that you downloaded in the PES format. {Eventually you can download other formats but for now keep things easy and concentrate on the PES designs.}

You will eventulally have a large collection of PES format Embroidery Designs. Move the ones that you like to the folder "MyDesigns" (or a similiar folder.). On page 6, they have a chart. It appears that you can browse your Folders on your PC to find your PES designs. Follow the directions to embroider the embroidery design that you chose while browsing in Folders.
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After you are familiar with Downloading PES files and using the PED to embroidery your PES files, you can expand your horiazons to include freebies that are in other formats such as HUS, DST, JEF, SEW, etc. You will download these files to your folder "Downloads" putting them in a sub-directory for HUS files, etc.

You might need software to convert the other design formats to PES files. Maybe you have Brother software that will do such conversions. If not, look into Embird that converts, organizes, edits and allows you to view your embroidery designs on your PC. There is a thirt day free trial for embird at http://www.embird.com. Alternatively, Buzz Tools has embroidery editing and viewing software and a free 30 day trial. I have Embird and it is very reasonable. But both are very good.

Now that you got some freebies from the Viking site, you will then be able to convert the HUS files to PES files and then use them in your Brother PED machine. With such utilities you will be able to save a huge collection of Embroidery designs, many free. I have found some of the best designs that I loved are free, such as from Brother, etc.

Good luck! Please feel free to email me to ask about embroidery.

Happy Embroidering!
JosyMaude
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My previous comment to you prior to my finding the PDF manual on your Brother PED machine:
Could you download PES files and then use your Brother Embroidery software to export them to the proper file extension that your Brother PE uses.

Brother Machines usually use PES format. I have a Viking but the concept is similiar. The Viking uses the HUS and or VIP format. These type of formats are the stitch files for your particular embroidery machine. Then in order for your embroidery machine to understand these files, often there is another utility that converts the file to a file extension that the machine embroidery hardware can understand. The utility is often a reader writer box or even a direct link to your embroidery machine. This utility will convert the Stitch file such as the PES to the proper format for your embroidery machine to understand. In other words, on your PC you work with PES files and then later you have your Reader/Writer Box convert these PES files to formats that the hardware (embroidery machine) understands. The reader/writer box would save to cards for the brother or save to a floppy.

In my Viking, I download HUS files and then use a Reader writer that converts the format to SHV for my Designer 1. The Brother probably also needs to convert the Brother PES stitch file to a another file extension that your embroidery machine can understand.

I wonder if the Brother PED files are the Native Files that you digitize. After digitizing, you convert to PES and then later use the utility to send these files to another format for your machine. Maybe I’m getting too technical…but basically you will need to download PES formats and then use your Brother software to send these designs to your Brother machine.

How do I keep track of the files I have downloaded from Yahoo Groups (machine embroidery site designs)?

February 11th, 2012 1 comment

I hate to appear like an idiot here but how do you keep track of files that you have downloaded from different Yahoo Groups? I belong to multiple groups that have free machine embroidery designs posted by different people at different times. The date that shows with the file (or folder) is "date created". I find myself opening the same folders and the same files over and over again to see if there are any new files there that I haven’t downloaded yet. We don’t always get a message when someone adds a new design to an old existing folder. Seems like I spend needless hours "looking" at the same things only to find I have already downloaded that design. Is there a better way of doing this that I’m missing? Call me crazy but at this point in time, it seems to me that it would make better sense for Yahoo Group to keep track of the "last date accessed" rather than the "date created". Thanks to anyone who can help me out with this!

it’s not an idiot question, but a good one. there is no tracking system within Yahoo that keeps track of where you clicked, downloaded or otherwise. I don’t think Yahoo will ever do anything like this either, since it would probably take alot to track each member’s ID for where they clicked and even if there was this capability, there’d certainly be tons of glitches.
sorry

this is the link to the groups suggestion board, you could add it, and I’d vote a thumbs up
http://feedback.yahoo.com/homepage/?prop=groups

good question