Embroidery design with Hatch Embroidery consists of turning basic artwork shapes into embroidery designs. There are two broad categories of artwork file, both of which can be imported into Hatch Embroidery for use as digitizing backdrops – vector and bitmap. Hatch Embroidery gives you the flexibility of creating embroidery objects using artwork as backdrops, or of directly converting digital artwork. You can take a mixed mode approach as well, doing the bulk of the design by means of automatic conversion, followed by touch-ups and edits using the suite of Hatch Embroidery embroidery digitizing tools.