Writing Designs to a USB Stick

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to write designs to a general USB flash memory stick, which works like another disk drive on your PC (e.g., drive H:).

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

2 - In the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen, select the design that you want to write to the USB stick. To select a design, please move the mouse pointer to its file name and click the left mouse button (Picture No. 1). You can select multiple files: Move the mouse pointer to the file name of the first design in the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen, depress the left mouse button, and hold it down while moving the mouse pointer over the file names of the other designs. When the mouse pointer is over the last design, please release the left mouse button.

1. Select files to be written to the USB stick

3 - Select the "Right Panel > Input/Output Operations > USB Stick" command from the main menu (Picture No. 2).

2. Select "Right Panel > Input/Output Operations > USB Stick" menu

4 - A dialog box will appear on the screen (Picture No. 3). Choose the "Drive:" which contains the USB stick. In this example, it is the "H:" drive. The upper box shows the folders and files of the USB stick.

5 - Click the "Create new folder" button to create a new folder for the designs and choose this folder in the "Folder" box.

6 - The bottom box shows the files which you are going to write to the card (Picture No. 3). Click the "Write files to card" button to start writing the designs to the card.

3. Select drive, folder and write files there

7 - Embird will ask you about the target format for the files being written (Picture No. 4). Designs will be converted 'on-the-fly' to this format and then written to the selected folder on the USB stick. In this example, we have chosen the ".HUS" format. Click the "OK" button to continue.

4. Choose target file format(s)

8 - Another dialog box will appear on the screen, inquiring whether you want to save the Embird color palette for each design to the USB stick as well (Picture No. 5). This color palette is stored in a separate file with an .EDR extension. Click the "Yes" button if you want to save the color palette, because some file formats offer only a limited color palette; if you don't save the real palette along with the design, it might happen that the next time you display this design from the USB stick, it will have slightly different colors.

5. Save also color palette?

9 - Embird will write the designs to the USB stick and will display the result of this operation (Picture No. 6). In this example, the "ROSE2.hus", "ROSE3.hus", "ROSE4.hus", "ROSE5.hus", and "ROSE6.hus" designs were written to the memory stick. The corresponding files with the .EDR extension contain the Embird color palette for these designs.

6. Result of write operation

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