Save & export designs

There are two types of embroidery file format:

File type

Function

Design

Design files, also known as ‘outline’ or 'all-in-one' files, usually contain digitized shapes and lines, selected stitch types and stitch values and effects.

Machine

Machine files, also known as ‘stitch’ files, generally contain stitches and machine functions and are only suited to specific embroidery machines.

EMB is the native file format of Hatch Embroidery. Other ‘all-in-one’ formats such as JAN are supported. Hatch Embroidery also supports many machine or stitch formats such as JEF, SEW, DST, EXP, and others. For a comprehensive list, see Supported embroidery files.

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