Port Connection to Embroidery Machine - Receiving Design

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

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

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

2 - Select the "Right Panel > Input/Output Operations > Port Connection to Embroidery Machine" menu (Picture No. 1).

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

3 - 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).

4 - Now you are ready to receive the design from the embroidery machine. Go to your embroidery machine and let it send the design to the communication port connected to the PC. Find how to perform this operation in the manual for your embroidery machine.

5 - Return to your PC and click the "Receive from embroidery machine" button (Picture No. 2).

2. Check serial port settings

6 - The serial communication between the PC and the embroidery machine will start. Embird will receive the bytes of the design sent from the embroidery machine and will show the progress (Picture No. 3).

3. Receive design from embroidery machine

7 - When Embird receives the last byte of the design, it will wait 5 seconds to make sure this is really the end of the data transfer. Then it will offer you a dialog box in which you can choose the format of the design that was received and is now going to be saved to your hard disk (Picture No. 4). Click the "OK" button to continue.

4. Choose target file format(s)

8 - In another dialog box, you will have to specify the filename for this design. Click the "OK" button to continue.

9 - Finally, the received design will be shown on the screen (Picture No. 5).

5. Received design shown in Manager

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