My wife went from a Pfaff sewing machine that uses Pfaff Memory Cards which hold the emboriery patterns used on the sewing machine. She was told there is a way to transfer the patterns from the memory cards to the Janome sewing machine.
The Janome has the ability to upload the patterns from a Compact Flash Card or Directly from the PC Computer. So if anyone can please help me by telling me how to transfer them I would be thankful.
Right now it "appears" I have downloaded them from the Pfaff Memory Card to the PC Computer as a RAM file. At least that is the extension option available when I downloaded them.
If you have them on your PC the next step is to convert to the Janome format. You don't say which model machine your DW owns but .jef format is required for 9500/9700/10000/10001/300E/350E and the more recent
11000 is .jef+
Do you have Embird to convert the format? If not, you can download a
30day (or 100 use) free trial from
formatting link
Once converted, just copy 'n paste to the CF card which should be in your card reader (printer/fax/scanner/etc) or a PCMCIA adaptor. This adaptor with CF card can be inserted directly into the machine, unless you plan to link directly to the PC. This depends which model machine you have.
Small capacity CF's are a bit hard to find, although older cameras used to come with an 8Mb or 16Mb and most of these cards are no longer used in cameras as they don't hold enough photos....embroidery files are smaller!! The machine will only read 100 designs regardless of card size, so in this case, size does matter!! I don't even load 100 designs on my cards because it takes longer for the machine to read them. Just load whatever you need for the current project.
Just recently I bought a multi card PCMCIA adaptor and now use whatever small capacity card I pick up, SD/MMC/SM/MemoryStick/MemoryStickPro/etc. Not sure where you are located but your computer store should have them, otherwise eBay has everything you'll need.
Please confirm that the data I downloaded from the Pfaff card which is currently in RAM format is the correct format to start from.
The program I used to download the data from the Pfaff Memory card is "PC-Designer" version 2.1. The only way I saw to tranfer the data was as ONE file from the sewing maching to the computer.
I hope this makes sense to you.
If there a different and BETTER way to get the files off the Pfaff Memory Card?
Wes didn't say that they were files with a .ram extension. He said that they were RAM format - I'm guessing that what he has is the equivalent of a sewing machine memory dump.
Which Pfaff sewing machine are you talking about? (And which Janome, while we're at it?)
How did the designs get on the Pfaff memory card?
The usual ways are: 1) A card purchased with designs on them 2) Designs placed on the card from the computer, using specialty embroidery software. 2) Designs built-in to the sewing machine, uploaded to cards.
On the Pfaff, did you use embroidery designes acquired separately or did you use only what were built-in to the sewing machine?
EXACTLY how did you get the contents of a Pfaff memory card into your computer?
What physical device did you connect to your computer to read it? And what software did you run on the computer to read the card's contents?
I don't know what you mean by "RAM format". Do you mean that it's in the format of the sewing machine's random access memory? If so, it's probably unusable. For some sewing machines, it's possible to save individual designs from the sewing machine in an editable embroidery format such as .pcs, .pcd, .vip, etc.
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