Digitizer V5 embroidery software can be opened via the desktop icon or MS Windows® Start menu. It defaults to embroidery mode.

Look and usability

Digitizer V5 has a new look and improvements in usability to make creation of embroidery designs simple and easy.

• Simple to understand interface 
  • Toolboxes provide all the tools necessary to complete specific embroidery tasks
  • What You See Is What You Need
    • New context sensitive toolbar shows only those tools needed at any point in embroidery design creation or editing
  • Easy to see and identify icons
    • Standard and large variants
    • Display icons with or without tool names
• New Line and Fill digitizing
  • Create shapes as fill or outline
  • Easy to convert shapes between fill and outline
•  New dockers to display object properties
  • New visual presentation of stitch types and patterns
  • Greater control over stitch settings
• New tabbed design windows
• Integrated access to your embroidery design collection

Overview of new features

Digitizer V5 significant new features are summarized below...

• Manage Designs
  
  • Integrated embroidery design management
  • Quick access to embroidery design collection within the main application
• Design customization
  • Easy access to design information
  • Include articles as design backgrounds
  • Improved recoloring of designs
    • Color Wheel
    • Cycle Used Colors
    • Design Color Palette
    • My Threads
  • Easy changing of stitch spacing for existing designs
  • Optimize color changes
• Design Layouts
  • Options for creating design layouts dynamically
• Editing objects
  • Options for copying and applying properties from one object to another
  • Adding and removing of stitch angles
• Advanced Digitizing
  • Color Blending
  • Trapunto Outlines
  • Carving Stamps
• Capture and share design images
• 3D Satin stitch type
• 3D Warp effect for motif fill
• New MC15000 machine support