Port Connection to Embroidery Machine - Sending Design

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

Use this command if you want to send (upload) a design from Embird to an embroidery machine via a serial communication link.

1 - Run Embird; it will start in "Manager" mode.

2 - Select the design you want to send to the embroidery machine in the "Files" box on the Right Panel (Picture No. 1). To select the design, please move the mouse pointer to its file name and click the left mouse button.

1. Select design

3 - Select the "Right Panel > Input/Output Operations > Port Connection to Embroidery Machine" menu (Picture No. 2).

2. Select "Right Panel > Input/Output Operations > Port Connection to Embroidery Machine" menu

4 - A dialog box will appear on the screen (Picture No. 2). Choose the type of embroidery machine (1). Check the "Serial port" settings - you must choose the port to which the serial communication cable is attached to your embroidery machine (2) and also the correct baud rate (3).

5 - Now you are ready to send the design to the embroidery machine. Go to your embroidery machine and prepare it for receiving the design on the communication port connected to the PC. Find how to perform this operation in the manual for your embroidery machine.

6 - Return to your PC and click the "Send to embroidery machine" button (Picture No. 3).

3. Check serial port settings

7 - Another dialog box appears on the screen, allowing you to change the position of the design starting point (Picture No. 4).

4. Starting point position

8 - The serial communication between the PC and the embroidery machine will start. Embird will send the bytes of the selected design and will show the progress (Picture No. 5).

5. Send design to embroidery machine

9 - Once the uploading is finished, Embird will display the results of the data transfer. Now you are ready to sew out the design on your embroidery machine.

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