Overview of this release

Welcome to Hatch Embroidery 4, the best machine embroidery software designed specifically for the hobbyist and home business available today. It includes all the features and tools you need to create or edit an embroidery design. Whether you create beautiful designs from scratch, edit purchased designs, want to personalize with professional lettering and monograms, or simply organize and convert your files. Get powerful manual and auto-digitizing, appliqué prepared for your cutting machine, embroidery created from color photos and more. You can resize or recolor a design, create offset outlines, re-sequence the stitch-out and have it ready for your machine. Whether you are new to machine embroidery or very experienced, Hatch Embroidery has all the creative tools you need. They are easy to use and deliver professional quality results.

Hatch Embroidery 4 comes in four product levels. Here is a brief summary of their capabilities...

Level

 

Main capabilities

Organizer

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Find, manage, customize, and output designs quickly and easily...

  • Resize, change, and customize colors

  • Simulate sewing with Stitch Player

  • Auto-fabrics – adjust stitch settings and provide recommended stabilizers

  • Easy-to-use hoop management

  • Multi-position hoops.

Personalizer

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All ‘Organizer’ features plus lettering and monogramming...

  • Create your own monograms or use professional Hatch Embroidery templates

  • Add and customize lettering – includes over 70 professionally digitized fonts

  • Lettering baselines, lettering art and alignment options

  • Edit / reshape letters and convert TrueType fonts

  • Laydown Stitch for textured fabrics like terry toweling.

Composer

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All ‘Personalizer’ features plus editing and auto-digitizing...

  • Layout, reshaping, and Knife tool to edit design objects

  • Auto-digitize and multi-hooping

  • Vector file support using CorelDRAW®.

Digitizer

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All ‘Composer’ features plus world-class manual digitizing and appliqué tools...

  • Multiple fills and outline types plus 3D with raised embroidery effects

  • Freehand, motif, color blending, and carving stamps

  • Ambience quilting, trapunto, offsets and outlines

  • Photographic auto-digitizing, both colored and grayscale – PhotoFlash, Reef PhotoStitch, Color PhotoStitch

  • Keyboard Design Collection creator.

Note: The screen illustrations in this publication are intended as representations, not exact duplicates of screen layouts generated by the software. The samples used to illustrate software features and capabilities may not be exactly duplicable, depending on your product level.