Melco DesignShop Digitizing Software
Digitizing Made Easy
DesignShop V12
A completely fresh digitizing ecosystem.
- 200+ fonts and monograms
- 1,000 stock embroidery designs
- Four versions, from Lettering to Professional
- Customizable 4K-ready interface
- Cloud-based security
- Built-in industry thread charts
Easily Streamline Digitizing
DesignShop 12 introduces a completely fresh digitizing ecosystem. With advanced design capabilities, intuitive user-friendly features, and a fresh customizable workspace, every element of DS 12 works together to make digitizing easier than ever.
Design digitizing guides — video tutorials and comprehensive guides for every skill level
Automation, Organization, Thread Charts
Automation. Accelerate digitizing and product creation with the automation of common tasks like Auto Primer Stitch, Auto Basting Outline, Auto Underlay, Auto Stippling and Auto Sequencing.
Organization. Streamline your production process with design barcoding. By using a barcode reader at any time to recall the design, you can eliminate the need to search for design files on hard drives or disks.
Built-in thread charts. Charts for Robison-Anton, Isacord, Madeira, Coloreel, Marathon, and other major industry brands.
Have Existing Designs?
Reuse your existing embroidery patterns. DesignShop 12 supports a broad spectrum of industry-standard file types, including DST, EXP, EXP+, EPS, ART8*, PES, EMB* and more.
Plus, our proprietary OFM format allows wireframe editing, machine settings, and colour information to be saved and loaded for production.
* Import or open only.
Next Level Software Selection
DesignShop V12 comes in four versions to meet your specific needs. Get the tools that are right for your digitizing software needs with four levels of features. All levels feature new Version 12 enhancements including a new UI with a customizable interface, cloud-based security, updated design tools, 4K support, and much more.
Lettering
- 200+ fonts and monograms
- 1,000 stock embroidery designs
- Auto underlay and density
- Design checker
- Trim between letters or words
- TrueType and OpenType font support
- Preset shapes for envelope text
- Expanded character alphabets
- Realistic 3D rendering of embroidery
- Arched text and type-on-path tools
Editor
Everything in Lettering, plus:
- Manual digitizing
- Wireframe or stitch editing
- Multiple stitch directions within an element
- Selectable character list for fonts
- Automatic fabric adjustment via styles
- Alignment tools
- Custom shapes and designs library
- Batch conversion
- Hi-res PNG export
- Custom shapes folders
- Gradient letter characters
- Updated pattern fill generation
Vector
Everything in Editor, plus:
- Vector digitizing
- Locate colour
- Stitch graphic region
- Auto remove overlap / fill holes / find centerline
- Open, insert and save vector graphics
- Utilize Illustrator clipboard data
- Graphic conversion assistant
- Auto-digitizer
- Editable grid-ruler guidelines with snapping behaviour
Professional
Everything in Vector, plus:
- Distortion effects
- Shadow tool
- Combine and subtract elements
- Change element type
- Curved stitch directions
- Create blends with custom densities
- Create decorative and pattern fills
- Create and edit embroidery fonts and monograms
- Auto primer stitch
- Auto basting outline
- Automatic closest point connection for manual digitizing
- Cross-stitch type
- Stitch any alphabet as appliqué
- Add borders to designs and elements
- Corner control
Feature lists subject to change. Contact us to confirm which version is right for your shop.
Not sure which version you need?
Contact a representative and we’ll match DesignShop V12 to the work you actually do.