DRAWings ® 6 Features
DRAWings® has been the first embroidery software to be fully integrated with a graphics designing software. Now,
DRAWings® 6, goes one step beyond with the powerful combination of its new easy-to-use built-in designer and its
ability to work seamlessly with a graphics software left intact! Create your own designs from scratch with far more ease,
transform and edit shapes, add text, all in 3D designing mode. Produce stunning designs with crystals/rhinestones easily
that you can combine with embroidery or textile printing.
Now every design can be your embroidery fill type that will fill in your new creations. The array fill will change the way
you used to fill your
embroidery designs The new automated monogramming tool together with the hundreds of decorative frames (Borders, Corners, Sides)
will give you
all you need to create your monogram designs.
You can now use the software to create and cut your appliqué designs or any other material by connecting it directly with the
most popular
cutters in the market.
DRAWings® 6 comes with the new version of Wings' modular® 5 and is compatible with Windows® 7. It is also compatible with all vector based graphics programs through copy/paste or OLE technology, where applicable, thus fully compatible and interactive with CorelDRAW X6, X5, X4 and X3.
The latest feature of the software are listed below.
DRAWings 6 PRO
DRAWstitch launches the new DRAWings® version 6
DRAWings® version 6 is a multi-functional software, with a fully customizable interface and an impressive list of new features, designed to be used for graphics designing, textile and screen printing, embroidery, and even computerized quilting.
DRAWings® 6 comes with the new version of Wings' modular® 5 and is compatible with Windows® 7. It is also compatible with all vector based graphics programs through copy/paste or OLE technology, where applicable, thus fully compatible and interactive with CorelDRAW X6, X5, X4 and X3.
DRAWings® 6 is available through DRAWstitch Ltd. and selected partners.
- View the Brochure of DRAWings 6
The unique development concept and the innovative features that the new DRAWings® 6 incorporates make it a true multi-functional software ideal for different business areas:
- Crystal/Rhinestone designing
- Crafting and Cutting
- Graphics designing
- Embroidery digitizing
- Computerized quilting
- Digital garment printing
- Textile printing (Heat transfer printing)
Graphics designing
The new graphics designing features of the software include the ability to add new graphics objects as clones of the first object, which combined with the Circular or Rectangular Array/Kaleidoscope tool can produce unique and beautiful designs. In addition the fully customizable workspace together with the ability to open multiple designs in tabs and move objects between them, makes the designing process even easier. Finally there is new tool that allows you to capture images from the webcam and convert them to vector artwork easily for any use.
Crystal/Rhinestone designing
DRAWings software adds Crystals/Rhinestones to its designing tools. It is a totally new innovative feature that allows everyone to create beautiful designs filled with different chystal/rhinestone shapes and sizes. You can create designs only with crystals or combine them with embroidery, appliqué, cutwork or textile printing. All these, together with the direct connectivity with the most popular cutters, result to a complete software package that will cover most of your needs.
Crafting and Cutting
The creation of cutting designs is another feature that has been added in the software. It is a powerful tool that can be used not only for embroideries and appliqué but also for any kind of crafts that include material cutting that your cutter can cut. Create a design you want to cut and with a click you can send it to your cutting machine. This feature upgrades the software and it makes it suitable for many different crafting projects.
Embroidery designing
The embroidery part of the software is really enhanced with new features such us manual embroidery sequencing, auto border functionality for creating perfect "echo" effects, "Net fill" stitch type for perfect laces and filling cut fabrics, automatic image conversion to Photo-stitch and embroidery machine simulation with "slow redraw" for visualizing the embroidery process.
Computerized quilting
Computerized quilt sector has now a new powerful friend that will upgrade quilting in the next level. The quilt decoration styles that DRAWings include will cover most quilting needs and change the way you experiencing your hobby.
Digital garment printing
The new technology of Digital Garment Printing is now supported from the software. You can export the improved 3D realistic embroidery preview to embroidery look images and print them on garments or any other material. Any graphics or embroidery images created from the software can become the theme of your next print work without using any other software.
Textile printing (Heat transfer printing)
With DRAWings you can combine embroidery with heat transfer printing. Create or load the artwork you like, print it on the fabric by using heat transfer paper and you are ready. If you want you can use your embroidery machine to embroider some parts of the design over the printed image and create a unique “eye catchy” result.
DRAWings 6 Features
DRAWings® has been the first embroidery software to be fully integrated with a graphics designing software. Now, DRAWings® 6, goes one step beyond with the powerful combination of its new easy-to-use built-in designer and its ability to work seamlessly with a graphics software left intact! Create your own designs from scratch with far more ease, transform and edit shapes, add text, all in 3D designing mode.
Produce stunning designs with crystals/rhinestones easily that you can combine with embroidery or textile printing.
Now every design can be your embroidery fill type that will fill in your new creations. The array fill will change the way you used to fill your embroidery designs
The new automated monogramming tool together with the hundreds of decorative frames (Borders, Corners, Sides) will give you all you need to create your monogram designs.
You can now use the software to create and cut your appliqué designs or any other material by connecting it directly with the most popular cutters in the market.
NOTE: DRAWings® 6 comes in one edition: the equivalent of the up to now known as "Professional Edition"
of DRAWings software and reads all ".DRAW" files created from any previous version.
All features and tools of the previous Professional Editions have remained intact in this new DRAWings® 5 version!
- View the Brochure of DRAWings 6
NEW Create beautiful designs with crystals/rhinestones
Designs with Crystals
- Insert single crystal objects anywhere you like
- Select crystals from different palettes.
- Select the crystal Size you want from any selected palette.
- Select the Shape/Size/Color of the crystal you want to apply from any current palette.
- Ability to choose between various fills, like Rectangle, Shape fit, Circular, Contour, Line fit and Single line
NEW crystal features continued...
- Add offset to Crystal fill/outline
- Adjust horizontal and Vertical spacing between crystals
- Rotate and Slant crystal fills
- Separate crystal fill/outline to each sub crystal object
- Ability to edit the Crystal fill container
- Adjust crystals cut offset (distance of knife from the crystal)
- Adjust crystals minimum hole spacing (distance between crystals)
NEW Export crystal designs to cutters
Export crystal designs to most widely used cutters and prepare them for the hotfix process
NEW Fill designs with any shape
- Create Fill Array with any shape
- Create Outline Array with any shape
- Create Fill Array from Clipart design
- Create Outline Array from Clipart design
- Change Array fill or outline by using a different shape as fill.
- Create a Fill or Outline Array as clone object.
- Adjust the original shape and the changes are automatically applied at the objects inside the Fill Array.
NEW Clipart library
Insert Clipart, Search clipart by tags, filter designs by tags, Different views in the clipart library dialog for easier selection, Add – Delete tags on every clipart, Rename clipart name and add any design to Clipart
NEW Array fill with Clipart
NEW Circular array Contour ability with or without Equal steps
Create beautiful complex circular contoured designs easily and use them on your embroideries, quilts or any other craft.
NEW Magic Wand designing tool
With the Magic Wand tool you can create shapes that consist of the intersection of two or more other shapes. Also, with a single click you can convert any shape's hole to an object without affecting the hole.
NEW Complete Monogramming tool
- 35 Monogramming templates designs
- Monogramming wizard to easily create monograms
- Ability to select Font from every True Type font available in the system.
- Includes 132 borders, 51 corners and 95 side embroidery designs to use with your monograms
- Ability to specify which section of a character will be under or above when two or more are overlapping.
NEW Colorful or monochrome photo-stitch
You have the ability to either create CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) photo-stitch designs or Monochrome in any color you prefer.
NEW Connect with Cutters
DRAWings® 6 can connect the software with most Cutters in the market (Zing, Silhouette CAMEO, eCraft, Silhouette SD, Foison, REDSail, GCC, ...) and cut appliqué/quilt fabrics or any other material your cutter can cut by simply sending the design you have created to the cutting machine.
NEW Export files for cutters
Ability to save cutwork designs as .plt, .svg, or .dxf files and import them in any cutter that can read those files
NEW More styles for quilting and ability to mirror any style
More than 170 new Quilt style stitches are included in the software that can be used for creating beautiful quilts easily.
NEW Smart text that works with abbreviations
Use existing text abbreviations and convert them to embroidery or create your own and make your life easier in everyday embroidering process.
NEW Rotation in rectangular array
Position rectangular arrays in the way you prefer and create great stitch patterns for quilts and curtains.
NEW Sequence manager - Group objects by color
Make easier object re-sequencing by grouping them by color.
NEW Support for different Crystal shapes (Round, Drop, Square, Triangle, Navette and Baguette )
NEW Includes Wings’ modular® 5 version ( BASIC, TEXT and EDITING modules) with many new abilities.
In DRAWings 6 PRO package, Wings’ modular 5 embroidery software comes with "Basic", "Text" and "Editing" modules only, that includes many useful embroidery abilities and communicates directly with DRAWings 6 PRO. The Editing module is the NEW addition in DRAWings 6 PRO that enhances even more the editing features of the package. Inside Wings' modular 5 you have stitch editing abilities, combine embroidery designs by copy and pasting parts of different designs, re-sequence objects, use Pre-digitized fonts to add text on path or inside envelope, change entry and exit points of a design, adjust advanced embroidery parameters such as Density, Underlay, Fix and Lock stitches, change Corner style, adjust compensation, add half pitch compensation, variable pitch on stitch objects and more. In addition Wings’ modular "Basic" module comes with more than 3000 free embroidery designs.
Some of the available features of Editing module are listed below:
- Editing abilities for stitch data files(like .dst, .pes, .jef, etc.)
- Split stitch objects( like those inside .dst, .pes etc. files)
- Re-sequence objects by click and dragging the objects on the Sequence manager
- Transform selected objects by creating copy or not
- Change the Satin Width (on stitch data objects) by specifying the Growth or the shrink in mm and the direction
- Change the density of the selected objects
- Rotate, Scale, Mirror selected objects
- Convert Step to Satin(on stitch data objects)
- Edit Step patterns
- Stitch object alignment
- Reverse Stitches of the selected Stitch data objects
- Smooth the Stitch data objects
- Split the Stitch data objects by specifying lines
- Create copy of the selected objects by reference line
- repeat the last made modification
- Specify if the copies of the objects will be placed at the end or after the initial
- Duplicate the whole Design
- 2-point copy of objects
DRAWings 6 New Features List
- Create beautiful designs with crystals/rhinestones
- Create cutwork designs for appliqué or any other use
- Direct connection with most known cutters
- Ability to save cutwork designs as .plt, .svg, or .dxf files
- Complete Monogramming Utility with many readymade frame designs
- Unique Array fill ability. Fill your shapes with any other shape or design as an array
- Complete clipart library with hundreds of designs that you can use in your embroideries
- Create beautiful monochrome or CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)) color photo-stitch designs
- Magic wand - New designing tool that can make your designing life easier
- Circular array Contour ability with or without Equal steps
- Ability to rotate the Rectangular arrays during their creation
- More styles for quilting and ability to mirror any style.
- Ability to use abbreviations in text art designs
- Now you can also convert Open Type Fonts (.otf) to embroidery
- Support for .AI .EPS format up to version CS5
- Export to .VP3, .MST and .SEF file formats
- Rotation in rectangular array
- Inertia / kinetic scrolling
- Every time you hover over a specific object on the sequence manager, the respective object is focused on the screen
- Sequence manager - Group objects by color
- Ability to remove backdrop
- Select by stitch type even if no object is selected
- Short colors by Name or Color in Color palette
- Auto-border with remove holes ability
- Ability to ungroup all grouped object at once
- Support for different Crystal shapes(Round, Drop, Square, Triangle, Navette and Baguette )
- Wings’ modular 5 embroidery software Basic-Text-Editing modules is included in the package
System Requirements
DRAWings 6 is quite a powerful software! It uses high end technology in order to provide you best quality in embroidery! It includes a 3D rendering engine that creates actual previews of the embroidery designs. This is a revolutionary technology in embroidery software that helps the user work faster and more efficiently while editing embroidery designs in near reality preview.
Minimum system requirements
| CPU: | 1,5 GHz Intel or AMD 32-bit (x86) processor | |
| RAM: | 1 GB of RAM (for Windows XP O/S) or 2 GB of RAM (for Windows Vista™ & Windows® 7) , 3GB of RAM (for Windows Vista™ 64-bit and Windows® 7 64-bit) | |
| Hard disk: | 1 GB of free uncompressed space | |
| CD-ROM: | For installation | |
| Graphics card: | 3D PCI express accelerator with DirectX 9.0c compatible drivers and at least 512MB of RAM | |
| Monitor Resolution: | 1024x768 32bpp | |
| O/S: | Windows XP®, or Windows Vista™, Windows ® 7 with the latest Service Packs. | |
| Ports: | Available USB port for the USB Security key. |
Recommended system requirements
| CPU: | 2+ GHz Intel or AMD (x86) processor | |
| RAM: | 2 GB of RAM (for Windows XP® O/S), 3GB of RAM (for Windows Vista™ & Windows® 7), 4GB of RAM (for Windows Vista™ 64-bit and Windows® 7 64-bit) | |
| Hard disk: | 1 GB of free uncompressed space | |
| DVD/CD-ROM: | For installation | |
| Graphics card: | 3D DirectX 10 accelerator with at least 512 MB dedicated RAM, 32-bit color. |
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| Monitor Resolution: | 1280x1024 monitor resolution | |
| O/S: | Windows XP (with Service Pack 3 or later) or Vista™ or 7 | |
| Ports: | 1 free USB port | |
| Printer: | Windows-compatible Laser-inkjet printer. | |
What is in the Box
DRAWings 6 Embroidery software package is a complete graphics designing, quilting, cutwork making, crystals/rhinestones designing and embroidery software. It includes all the software you will need for the embroidery creation life cycle, starting from the creation of the graphic design and ending with the embroidery on the fabric.
It is the best solution for any home embroiderer and for everyone that is in the embroidering industry. Also is suitable for those who are creative and are dealing with crafts
What DRAWings 6 Pro includes
Main Applications
- DRAWings® 6 Pro software installation DVD
- USB Security key
USB key that allows DRAWings 6 Pro Software to run. - Import from embroidery level
- Wings' modular® 5 - "Basic", "Text" and "Editing" modules - installation DVD
Wings’ modular is professional embroidery software that consists of 14 modules. Each module has different features in order to be easier for you to decide which modules you actually need. In DRAWings 6 Pro, Wings’ modular 5 - "Basic", "Text" and "Editing" modules are included. Learn more - More than 3000 embroidery designs are included.
- 205 perfect clipart ready to be embroidered
Documentation
- DRAWings® 6 and Wings' modular® 5 installation guide and Quick Reference Card
- DRAWings® 6 Pro online help
- DRAWings® 6 Pro printable manual in PDF format including Quick reference card!
- Wings' modular® online help
- Wings' modular® Printable manuals in PDF format including Quick reference card!
Why to buy DRAWings 6
- Create professional quality embroidery designs in a matter of seconds
- Set up your in-house embroidery design service at a very affordable price
- Convert embroidery designs even quicker with new styles and patterns that give artistic touch to ordinary embroideries.
- Create beautiful designs with Crystals/Rhinestones and offer more to your customers or impress your friends.
- Create any cutwork design you want, send it to your cutter and use it for appliqué, and any other craft you want to.
- Utilize the monogramming tool and embroider your monograms in no time.
- Combine all DRAWings PRO abilities and create designs that include embroidery, cutwork, crystals/rhinestones and textile printing all in one.
There are not many software that allow you to do all that together.
- You have no inspiration? Use the clipart library which contains hundreds of readymade embroideries and you will end up with a great design in no time.
- Save more money by buying vector cliparts instead of stock embroidery designs
- Use any of the 50 Pre-digitized fonts that you will find inside Wings' modular to produce perfect text art designs.
- Convert your photos to flawless cross-stitch or photo-stitch embroidery designs automatically and gain time and money.
- Even better embroidery quality that requires minimum editing from you.
- Embroider multiple appliqué at once and control the offset of tack-down stitches.
- Import your embroidery designs inside DRAWings 6, edit them, add Text or combine them with other designs and get a totally new embroidery result.
Why to upgrade to DRAWings 6 from previous versions
- Create beautiful designs with crystals/rhinestones
- Create cutwork designs for appliqué or any other use
- Direct connection with most known cutters
- Ability to save cutwork designs as .plt, .svg, or .dxf files
- Complete Monogramming Utility with many readymade frame designs
- Unique Array fill ability. Fill your shapes with any other shape or design as an array
- Complete clipart library with hundreds of designs that you can use in your embroideries
- Create beautiful monochrome or CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)) color photo-stitch designs
- Utilize the "Magic wand" the new designing tool that can make your designing life easier
- Create designs with Circular array Contour ability with or without Equal steps
- More styles for quilting and ability to mirror any style.
- Convert any Open Type Fonts (.otf) to embroidery
- Convert .AI .EPS vector files to embroidery. (up to version CS5)
- Export to .VP3, .MST and .SEF file formats
- The Group objects by color on the Sequence manager will make your life easier
- Use auto-border with remove holes ability to any design and create great echo effects
- Support for different Crystal shapes(Round, Drop, Square, Triangle, Navette and Baguette )
- Wings’ modular 5 embroidery software Basic-Text-Editing modules is included in the package
