Designs On Your Computer

Designs on your Computer

Viewing Designs on your Computer and Transfering to your Embroidery Machine.

You will need an embroidery software program to view designs on your computer. If you do not have one, you can Download and Install a free trial of Embird on your computer

Save Designs to your Computer.
If you have ordered designs online you will need to do the following.

Download Designs ordered from the Secrets Website
Unzip Your Design Files and save to your hard drive.

If you are viewing designs from a pre-programmed embroidery card you will need to use a reader-writer box to be able to view and transfer them to your computer.

Reading designs off Embroidery Card using Ultimate Box and Embird

Open Designs in your Embroidery Software Program.
In order to view embroidery designs on your computer you will need to have an embroidery software program such as Embird installed.

Generally you can use the File menu in your embroidery software program, choose Open and navigate to the folder you unzipped the designs to and open within the software program.

View Designs downloaded on your computer in Embroidery Software such as Embird
Use View Tree to as alternative method to easily view designs in Embird 2006
Convert Designs to the format you need as Supported by Embird 2006.

Transfer Designs to your Embroidery Machine
After you have saved the designs on your computer and viewed them in your embroidery software program you will need to transfer them to your embroidery sewing machine.

You will need to use the correct hardware needed to transfer designs from your computer to your embroidery machine. Depending on the brand of machine you have it may need a reader-writer box and card, USB stick or Floppy Disk.

Writing Designs to USB Stick with Embird
Writing Designs to Floppy with Embird
Writing designs to Ultimate Box Card with Embird

Links for Other Software (these are for old versions of th software but may give you some tips for your new versions)

Internet to Machine with older style Husqvarna software
Internet to Machine with older style Brother PE Design / Palette software
Internet to Machine with older style Janome Scan & Sew software
Internet to Machine with older style Pfaff PC Designer software
Internet to Machine with older style Bernina Artista software.

If have any further queries please Contact Us and we will be more than happy to help.

Find What You're Looking For

Our Search Box appears at the top right of every page.

There are 3 ways to use it:

1. Search
Choose the type of product you are looking for: This is pre-set to Designs and will automatically search all embroidery designs on our site. You can choose from the drop down list to refine your search to one type of product, eg "Tutorials" or make it broader eg "All Products"

Enter a search word: Easy - just click in this box, type in your search word and click on the GO button. Type in lowercase and don't use plurals, Don't use words like "the" or "and". Use American spelling.

You will see pictures of the designs found that match your search. Click on the pictures you are interested in to see the designs in full and all the details you need to know (description, size, price, special offers, etc).

2. Choose a category
Instead of searching for a word, choose one of our quick category searches from this drop down list. Then choose a sub-category from the box on the right. By clicking between the category list that on the left and the sub-category list on the right, you can see pictures of all our items. This is a great way to find what you want at Secrets.

3. Choose a designer
Another alternative is to select one of our designers from the drop down list, and can visit their specific website.