Deco Studio

[Ken]

We have CorelDraw that we use for all of our design work from Custom transfers and the Roland cutter.

We have had DraWings for about 6-7 months now. It has done well for us, but it does have some "Quirks". We just recently ordered the new Wilcom Deco Studio. We hope that it will be here tomorrow. Has anyone gotten a copy of it yet? Any comments on it?

[abetterimage]

Ken,

I'd be interested in your feedback on deco studio.... I have Wilcom ES 45.

[Ken]

I will do it! It was supposed to arrive today. Our shop is not open on Mondays and I gave them our home address for the shipping. Unforuntely, the FedEx driver knows us and tried to deliver to the store even though it had the home address. So I missed the delivery.

When I do finally get it and get a chance to play with it, I will let everyone know how we like it. I may even be persueded to make a few video tutorials ó¿ó

[Ken]

Well, Deco Studio finally arrived yesterday.

I installed it at work, and then took it home to install it there and play with it. It installed without a hitch. Watched a couple of the tutorials that came with it. I am pretty impressed with the features.

I spent a good bit of the time going through the documentation, and reading. This thing will do a ton of stuff!

This morning, I began playing with the actual software. I started a deisgn from scratch using the graphics (Corel) part. It is very easy to toggle between the graphics side (Corel) and the embroidery side(Wilcom Deco). In the graphics side, everything works as advertised in Corel. I found this not to be true with my Drawings software, as you had to hunt for things that were normally readily available in Corel.

I drew my design with various objects and started converting them to embroidery. As I did this, I would stitch a sample out to see what it was doing. It takes a little getting used to at first. After you play with it a little, you begin to realize how you need to work your design.

I think the best way to do a design, from scratch is this. In the graphics side, make your design. You would then start selecting the elements of the design that you want applied first. Select that element, and press the convert button and it takes it to the embrodiery side and converts it to stitches. It will assign what it thinks is the best stitch. You can override that and change it if you wish. Next select the next element(s)in the graphics side and repeat the process. It may sound time consuming, but in fact its not. Continue this process until you have layered all of your elements the way you wish.

I am sure this is an over simplification, and I still have a lot to learn. I will prob be making a few video tutorials shortly. I will post them here.

Over all, my first impressions are very good!

[Janine]

Ken,
Many thanks for your digitizing skills. The skull design turned out great! I would say that you have a pretty good grasp on your new software. Have fun with it.
Janine