Embroidery Software Designer Plus Version 6

Automatic digitizing of artwork

The practical BERNINA Embroidery Software Version 6 allows you to automatically digitize artwork in a wide range of formats, so that it can be edited on-screen before being stitched out. Thanks to the BERNINA Embroidery Software V6, scanned drawings, pixel images or design sketches are all a cinch to use as artwork for your embroidery creations. No prior technical knowledge of file formats is required to use this automatic digitizing function – the embroidery software automatically converts all artwork into the right format for your embroidery machine.

Design and embroider monograms

The BERNINA embroidery software gives you the freedom to design and edit elegant monograms. No longer are you dependent on templates, or on the embroidery designs of others. Create and alter monograms and personalized labels however you wish. Provide them with attractive frames, ornaments, and edges, and embroider it all precisely with your BERNINA. The embroidery software allows you complete freedom with the creative design. Your sewing and embroidery projects bear your own individual and distinctive signature, like an original work of art.

Embroider attractive “carved stitch” effects

Embroider magical relief effects that look as if they’ve been carved. Create delightful patterns that reflect the light in different ways, lending sophisticated textures to your embroidery. You’ll be thrilled with the impressive, professional-looking results achieved thanks to the your BERNINA embroidery machine’s precise stitch formations. Creating designs with “carved stitch” effects is simplicity itself. Simply select the desired place and add the “carved” effect – accomplished with great precision by the embroidery software.

Design outline effects

The unique Outline feature in the BERNINA embroidery software lets you instantly add attractive borders and outlines to your embroidery designs.
The outline function places a number of outline stitches at your disposal – simply select the one you want with a click of your mouse. It’s child’s play to create a design outline that precisely follows the outline of your embroidery motif. With just a few simple mouse clicks, the BERNINA embroidery software provides accurate, attractive outlines for your designs.

Free-hand drawing made easy

The BERNINA Embroidery Software V6 features easy-to-use freehand-drawing tools that let you draw closed shapes, lines and dashes freehand, quickly and easily. Next,  simply select the desired outline or fill, and you’re done! Thanks to the BERNINA Embroidery Software V6, you can design charming motifs and effects and embroider them with your BERNINA embroidery machine with the utmost precision in next to no time. A powerful creative tool for the discerning who wish to transform their own ideas into high-quality embroideries.

Quilting with the Embroidery Software V6

Quilters will be delighted with the BERNINA Embroidery Software V6: the built-in Quilting Program will let them develop their quilting project on their PC, from initial design idea to  finished template. Fabric samples, layouts, blocks and embroidery motifs can be designed and configured at will in the Quilting Program – and the practical Preview function allows you to view the result before you sew the first stitch, letting you judge the overall effect and make any necessary adjustments before you begin stitching out your quilting project. This saves time and material, and affords you optimum control over the final result at all times. And of course you can also save your quilting project, with a view to altering or duplicating it at a later date.

The Quilting Program is built into DesignerPlus and EditorPlus.

Important notification regarding BERNINA Embroidery Software 6

Microsoft has released a service pack for its Windows® 8 operating system. This automatically updates Windows® 8 to Windows® 8.1.

Windows® 8.1
Please note that BERNINA Embroidery Software version 6 will not work with Windows® 8.1 or could lead to problems arising when using this version of Windows®.

In order to use the BERNINA Embroidery Software together with Windows® 8.1, you must upgrade to Embroidery Software 7. To do this, you do not need to have Embroidery Software 6 installed on your computer – you just have to have the dongle for your Embroidery Software 6 available during installation.