DETAILS:
The software you're looking at represents the most advanced technology in embroidery today. With the innovative features of DRAWings® Essentials, you can easily transform your creative ideas into beautiful designs for embroidery on your machine.
DRAWings® Essentials isn't like other embroidery software on the market. It's designed to bring your ideas to life, allowing your imagination to flow freely. This means you don't have to worry about technical issues when creating your embroidery.
All you need to get started is a vector image!
It could be an existing embroidery file, or other compatible vector files to create unique embroidery designs. The software includes tools to help you draw your ideas directly on your monitor screen and, with a few clicks, transform them into personalized creations.
New and original embroidery designs you can proudly share with your family, friends, and other embroidery enthusiasts are easily at your fingertips. DRAWings® Essentials is powerful yet very easy to use. Everyone—and we mean EVERYONE—can be creative! You love your hobby and deserve to enjoy it; let your imagination run wild… be creative with DRAWings® Essentials!
DRAWings® XI Essentials is the essential version of the program. It's ideal for those new to embroidery and for those who use the embroidery machine for themselves and their families.
Equipped with a basic toolkit , it can transform any truetype font or vector design into embroidery . It has an “ automatic border ” function to outline any image with a straight or satin stitch and can curve text in various ways. Creating beautiful appliqués and designing fantastic monograms complete with frames is a breeze thanks to the gallery of images and ready-made embroidery designs provided with the program.
COMPREHENDS
- 198 CMX Vector Files
- 203 NGS Embroidery
- 466 DRAW Embroidery
- 145 SVG Vector Files
DRAWINGS ESSENTIALS XII EDITION
Compared to DRAWings ESSENTIALS XI, the XII edition has more than 20 new features. The most important are the following.
NEW PROPERTIES WINDOW
The properties window has been completely redesigned for greater usability, with property type groups that can be collapsed to create more space in the workspace. Furthermore, when not needed, the properties windows are not displayed.
VERTICAL TEXT
In this XII edition it is also possible to insert text vertically.
ENHANCED MANUAL MODE
With the new manual mode, the fills and outlines of objects are separated so they can be managed separately. You can then decide for each object to enable/disable the thread trimmer or apply a forced machine stop. When you insert a new object, it is no longer placed at the end of the sequences but is added immediately after the currently selected object. When you delete a design element, the selection does not disappear and the object in the sequence following the deleted one is immediately selected. All connection points between objects are now visible.
COLOR SELECTION
In this edition, the ability to select colors by color code based on the yarn brand, by description (e.g. green, yellow, etc.) or by RGB code has been added.
FIT TO FRAME
With this feature added in this XII edition the program, upon user request, can adapt any design to the frame automatically.
SHOW/HIDE OBJECTS
Unlike the previous edition, you can now show and hide objects while designing an embroidery design. This feature is very useful: when you need to edit some background objects, it can be handy to hide the foreground objects.
CHANGING DENSITY IN EMBROIDERY FILES (RAW)
With DRAWings ESSENTIALS XII, you can change the density even of embroidery files (raw) that were not designed with DRAWings. You can change the density of a section without changing its size by up to +/- 25%.
REMOVAL OF EXCESS KNOTS
This edition also includes a feature that allows you to trim excess nodes in a path. This feature only applies to curved nodes, not square nodes, so you can still maintain every edge of the shape.
PRECISION SIGHT
Now you can align your objects easily thanks to the new precision crosshair that displays a vertical and horizontal guide across the entire work area.
CLIPART
Choose a design from the many CLIPARTs available in the program's gallery and transform it into embroidery with a simple click of the mouse.
TEXT
Convert any True Type font to embroidery or use one of the many fonts available in the gallery and have fun modifying the text as you like.
EMBROIDERY STITCHES
Thanks to the power of this software, you can play with your embroidery stitches. You can change stitch types, adjust direction, color, and adjust the border and fill separately.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
NEW FEATURES COMPARED TO PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF ESSENTIALS
- Redesigned manager sequence with new features
- Find and organize drawings through File Browser
- Fit drawing and frame into the software viewing area
- Additional units of measurement
- Automatic centering of the drawing inside the frame
- Dark theme compatible with new Mac OS features
CREATIVITY
- Create drawings using DRAWings® built-in Designer
- Convert any vector drawing into a drawing
- Supports .AI .EP format up to CC version
- Import embroidery files as is and edit them with new tools
- Combine embroidery files with vector files
- Use CorelDRAW® as a drawing tool to create embroidery (copy and paste only)
- Create monogram designs
EMBROIDERY TOOLS
- Complete text tools (add text, edit text path, edit text, and more)
- Ability to use abbreviations in text drawings
- Rectangular arrangement of the fill / kaleidoscope
- Possibility of rotating the rectangular layout while drawing
- Circular arrangement of the filling
- Circular arrangement of the filling with or without equidistance
- Self-edging option with satin stitch technique and topstitching
- Self-edging option with hole removal option
- Adds new objects as clones
- Auto-sequence control
- Manual embroidery sequence using the sequence panel
- Sequence Panel - Grouping objects by color
- Converts open fonts (.otf) to embroidery
- Create designs to cut out for appliqué or any other use
- Direct connection to the most common cutting plotters on the market
- Ability to save cutout drawings as .plt, .svg, or .dxf files
- Monograms with ready-made frame designs
EDITING TOOLS
- Set the fabric, embroidery machine and hoop as default
- Edit/Transform Setting
- Possibility to modify point
- Transform objects (move, scale, rotate, skew, duplicate)
- Ability to align, unfold and auto-size objects
- Ability to group, separate, combine and fragment
- Rectangular selection and lasso selection with one click
- Preset selections (select all, no selection, invert selection)
- Selection by color
- Selection by point type even without any object selection
- Node setup/shape change
- Improved embroidery quality along with a new fabric category
- Ability to ungroup all grouped objects at once
- Advanced options applied
- Cutting plotter parameter adjustment
- Cutting plotter mat selection
EXPORT DRAWINGS
- Save designs in the most common embroidery file extensions available on the market
- Export to Dropbox
- Ability to export work to vector files (SVG files)
- Possibility of printing the created drawing
- Export embroidery image in realistic 3D preview
- Exports .VP3, .MST, and .SEF file formats
EMBROIDERY OPTIMIZATION
- Section the design between 8 different embroidery parameters
- Automatic cutting of overlapping shapes
- Maintains the order of the stacking sequence
- Professional embroidery quality
- Remove wire cuts between object combinations
- Designs and embroidery included
- Added and improved quilting options
- Ability to mirror any design
- Embroidery Transformations
- Specifies the appliqué's outlines, position, and default attachment.
- Offset control for fill stitch and satin stitch in series
- Direction control for satin, satin, and piping objects
- Divide satin and piping objects
WORK AREA
- Support for high DPI (resolution) monitors
- Workspace setup with the ability to save preferences
- New welcome page with video tutorials
- Build-in design browser to search and archive your drawings
- Works on MAC OS and the latest version of Windows OS
- Selection techniques
- Complete customization of the workspace according to your preferences
- Open multiple drawings in tabs
- Realistic 3D preview with editing capabilities
- Inertia/kinetic slip
- Slow redraw - embroidery machine simulation
- Selection between different fabrics
- One of the most popular frame designs on the market
- Multi-frame support
- View with rotation and frame movement
- Use guidelines, ruler and grid for accurate shape transformation
- Complete color panel
- Adding harmonious colors to create beautiful combinations
- Select colors from the color chart
- Countless colors available on palette
- Possibility of color search on palette
- Automatically match actual thread color
- Short name in the name or color palette
- Intelligent auto-backup system
- Compatible with Windows® 8 / 10 /11
- Software access key
- Automatic software update
SHIPPING TIMES
Shipping times: Shipment is prepared within 5 business days. Shipment within 24-48 business hours for Italy.

