I goofed!

The card you purchased is in a proprietary format that can only be read by either a brother sewing machine (or babylock, and maybe one or two others) OR by a special reader-writer box that understands those cards. These include some made by Brother, the Amazing Box, and others.

Unless you can find someone with such a box attached to their computer. or someone who has already extracted the files, I'm afraid you're out of luck.

- Herb

Thanks, Herb, The reason I bought the card was to avoid the ethical problem associated with using a proprietary design. I intend using this for personal use only, FWIW.

I was afraid of that. I have found the Amazing Box II for under $200, but I'm not sure I'll ever need it again. Anyone in the Portland, OR, USA area with an Amazing Box willing to burn these to a CD for me (for a fee of course)? If so, please e-mail me at: notacompletefool [at] hotmail.com.

Thanks,

Sarah

Find somebody with the prerequisites that Herb mentioned by visiting an embroidery hobby group or perhaps rent a Brother machine if possible. Put an advert for soembody with a Brother machine in the local advert paper. Slip them a coffee or couple of bucks.

A pound of Peet's coffee. ;-)

Joanne, do you have a Brothers EM or a Magic Box? I'll be happy to send you ~two~ pounds, if you'll burn me a CD of the Brothers card. :-)

Sarah

Which card is it? - Herb

Hard to get hold of you without an e-mail address.

DaveJ

Sorry, Sarah. I wish I could help you but I don't have either.

Ah, well, thanks anyway.

Sarah

It's the "Taste of Disney" card.I'm not familiar with their coding system, on the back it ha: "20602-4". It's like:

really want to use the Tigger design for my son-in--law. Sarah

Sorry, I gave it a couple of messages up:

notacomletefool [at] hotmail.com

I hope your asking means you may be able to help?

Sarah

Uh - Sarah - Are you aware that the brother format (.pes) is not something that will be readily recognized by your 'puter? It looks like we're assuming you will know what to do with a .pes file once you have it, but it is worth pointing out that that's just the start. It seems almost all files for embroidery machines are still of a proprietary nature - not so much for protecting against commercial use, but for purposes of extracting more money from the customers. Also, it sounds like you have a machine, but not a brother; so it will be valuable for your "helper" to realize just what format you do want the file in so you can use it with your machine. You (or someone) will need to translate the .pes file to that format.

Hope This Helps

Have to assume the missing "p" there?

Sorry to seem to be so obtuse. I have a Singer XL5000, and I have spent about eight months reading this group. I have been researching the various conversion/digitizing software tools, and have decided to start with Embird, and purchase PSW 2.0 in the future if I need it. I also invested in a

7-in-1 external USB floppy/media-card reader, thinking it would be able to "read" the Disney card, but discovered after the card arrived that the Brother card could not be read by any of the slots in the reader box. I don't mind buying design cards, but the design I wanted is not available on any of the Singer media, thus my feeble attempt to make an end-run. Two other nice people have e-mailed the contents of that card in .hus format, and I may be able to use the primitive conversion tool which came with the Singer to convert them to either .xxx or .psw files. All that's left to do is get the cable to connect my computer to my SM, and I'm off and running! I hope... ;-}

My thanks to "someone else" and "KS" for sending me the .hus files. Off to see if I can make a wonderful shirt for my son-in-law.

Sarah

Yikes, that's what comes of playing on the computer long after my bedtime! Yes, it should be: notacompletefool [at] hotmail.com... Thanks. I'll come back here using my "real" moniker and munged e-mail address soon. Thanks everyone for all the help.

Sarah

Sarah, if you haven't already, sign up for some of the yahoo email lists for the Singer XL series. There is tons of help there.

XL5000andXL6000embroidery_with snipped-for-privacy@yahoogroups.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoogroups.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoogroups.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoogroups.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoogroups.com

These are some I've found. You can opt for the daily digest, or "no mail" and read on-line, and in archives, if you prefer.

From what I gather, only the PSW software can read the .psw format. But that should not be a problem with the conversion tool if you can get other formats. Most people say to use .hus as your first choice.

Hi Sarah,

If you want to e-mail me (off the group), I might be able to help....

snipped-for-privacy@tesco.com

No prob - just couldn't tell at first how much you were aware.

Sounds like you are in good shape - good machine that can read various formats & uses STANDARD media - too bad other companies can't seem to "get it", and keep their proprietary cards. Sooner or later they'll get the message... When we started looking at Husky's (closest reputable dealer) I had lots of questions about why they can's use "readily available" hardware, but as good as the local guy is, he turned defensive very quickly. I could only hope he would feed back the thoughts & ideas to Husky HQ. We also settled on a XL5000 - just a bit slow in getting it all going. The Yahoo groups are worthwhile!

Rgds, NGA

The embroidery cards are usually readable only by machines that read .pes files for Brother and other machines. They are write protected and the cards insert right into the machines they fit.

What embroidery machine or brand sewing machine are you trying to do this for? Information like this always helps the group so people in the group with your brand of machine can help you further.