I have bought an embroidery machine for my wife and it came with a software called PE Design 7 witch I find it to be useless.
I am trying Drawings and I would like to use a CorelDraw file that I have made in version X3 of a logo.
The 2 file formats are different. Do I have to start from scratch in Drawings???
Regards,
Oscar
Oscar, I don't understand what you mean when you say the "2 file formats are different"?
You should be able to simply copy/paste your Corel graphic into Drawings.
.............or, if you have Drawings4, check the box that says edit graphic in Corel.
For older versions of Drawings, the graphic side should take you right to Corel.
In either case, I use the copy/paste feature the most, even back when the programs were 'attached' at the hip!
HTH
Maybe this visual will help.
If not, let me know where you're running into problems.
Hi, thank you for your reply.
I will explain fully.
I have already installed CorelDRAW X3 wich its native file format is CDR. I have a design file called StreetHawk.cdr and I would like to see it on embroidery so I searched for an embroidery program and Drawings X3 is up my stream so I gave it a try and found out that I can't call my CDR file because the native file format for Drawings is DRAW, and CorelDRAW has got no export filter for DRAW.
Why Corel would make this very difficult especially coming from the same application?
I have done what you suggested copy/paste and it does work, so I thank you for that.
Now I have seen the logo and after a couple of modifications in Drawings I see that Power clip is not compatible, I have taken an outline of a Hawk and Power clipped the English flag, I have copy pasted that on Drawings and it does show but not in Stitch mode, so I have to do some work around inside CorelDraw, probable converting the Hawk and flag into a vector.
Kind regards
The native file format for CorelDRAW is CDR. Drawings is not a Corel Software, is made for other company, called Drawstitich - http://www.drawstitch.com/
So, Drawings receive a CDR files but CorelDRAW doesn not have support for this software, because is a third-part program.
And about your powerclip flag, if it's vector, you can crop your image, but if it's a bitmap you must Trace it
Ariel Garaza Díaz
arielgaraza.com
Thanks Ariel.
This what I want as an embroidery, eventually.
I am working on the powerclip flag. The idea would be to make the flag a vector graphic inside the shape of the Hawk.