Page Text: 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.
Select and Edit Parts of Designs
More control and simpler than ever! Using the Reshape or Stitch Edit tool, modify shapes or change stitch settings or effects options. Even stitch files such as DST are recognized as objects, giving you full, object based control and eliminating the need for stitch-by-stitch editing.
Group/Ungroup designs to edit individual design objects
Change object properties for selected objects eg, color, density, pull, underlay and more
Reshape individual design objects and lettering
Cut/Copy/Paste parts of designs.
Advanced Design Processing
The Color-Object List makes sequencing your design as easy as drag 'n drop. Select objects by color or stitch type to change their properties or resequence your design. You can also group, hide or lock individual objects for improved editing.
Resequence designs by object, color or selected sequence
Manipulate design objects in the Color Object List docker
Check individual stitches in the Stitch List docker
Automatically process densities by percentage for selected objects or stitch types.
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.
New and Improved Lettering
Choose from over 200 professionally crafted embroidery fonts or convert any TrueType or OpenType font instantly. Adjust individual letters to adapt to customer logos or to improve production.
Get the look you are after by refining kerning, word spacing and even individual letters. Built-in intelligence remembers your changes for next time.
10 NEW embroidery fonts PLUS support for Arabic & Thai languages
Embroidery fonts including 3D foam, logo fonts and specialty fonts
NEW predefined "Lettering Art" and 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.
Easier Standard Team Names
Speed up production and don’t waste time manual handling of team names! Mail-Merge style features import a list of names, auto-fits them to your baseline and outputs for either single or multi-head production.
Create and manage individual’s names by team
Import/Export team members via .txt or .csv files
Create single baseline designs with all team names in one .EMB file
Export team names for stitching individually or in batches
Create a matrix layout of multiple team names in large frames.
Enhanced Monogramming
Choose from several different type baselines (arc, circle or vertical), or get creative with enveloping. EmbroideryStudio’s Monogramming tool helps you to quickly and easily combine type styles, decorative motifs and borders to create personalized monograms for your customers.
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.
Smart Corners
Don’t like the way the digitizer has handled corners in the design? The Smart Corners feature reduces the number of stitches and the risk of bunched, distorted embroidery in sharp corners.
Save time and money with fast, quality stitch results
Optimize your production with full control of underlay, pull compensation, connectors, tie ins/offs, trims, jump and stop machine functions. You can even edit individual stitches to address any problem areas.
Quick editing for different fabric types
A design created for a towel can now be stitched on silk scarf with Auto Fabric Assistant. This tool automatically applies the most suitable underlay, pull compensation and stitch density settings for your chosen fabric.
Send designs to your embroidery machine with ease
Stitch Manager, Machine Manager and Connection Manager give you all the options to make sending designs to production a snap! You can also edit machine format values to get the best results.
Why Update?
With the long anticipated release of EmbroideryStudio e4, there has never been a better time to update your Wilcom software.
There are many reasons why keeping up to date with the latest technology is important. Firstly, ensure your business doesn’t suffer when your old computer crashes and it’s time to replace it with the newer hardware and operating software. You don’t want to be caught with any downtime. Not just that, but the latest EmbroideryStudio is so much more powerful that it runs faster and comes with both online and personal support.
New features to help you work faster, improve your processes and get more business done:
Now over 200 professional embroidery fonts
Wilcom is famous for quality lettering. Use any of the 200+ pre-digitised fonts for speed, precision and zero thread breaks! You can also convert any TrueType and OpenType fonts with ease.
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.
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.
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.
Multi-user Network Dongles
No need to worry about dongles going missing, if you have several operators using Wilcom software they can now be purchased and installed with just one Network security dongle.
Hoop It!
Streamline production with automatic hoop selection and avoid those unnecessary frame crashes
New and Improved Lettering
The world class Wilcom lettering got even better plus there are with 10 NEW professionally digitized fonts PLUS support for Arabic and Thai languages! Now Includes 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 preview management and Team Names feature.
PC Specifications for EmbroideryStudio e4
Please ensure you have the correct hardware to ensure the software runs well. EmbroideryStudio e4 is compatible with 64-bit 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™ FX-60
Operating System – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition
Browser – Microsoft Edge or IE11.0
Memory – 8 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 – Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit Edition or Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Edition with the latest updates
Browser – Microsoft Edge or later
Memory – 16 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 supported by EmbroideryStudio e4
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
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