Sierra Embroidery Office

has released the latest version of its embroidery digitizing software, version 8.0. This new version adds real horsepower with CorelDRAW® X3 compatibility and more power to transform artwork into embroidery. Sierra’s research and development team is dedicated to giving the power user the most requested and advanced tools available with more than 45 new features and more than 50 feature enhancements. A strong developmental focus on vector artwork compatibility and productivity means you’ll now have more tools to create eye-catching embroidery designs.

V.8 now has an improved user interface with more editing tools than ever before plus the ability to easily browse through designs or motifs. There are 112-plus predigitized fonts with closest point connection, unlimited font capabilities with TrueType® fonts conversion, and special text effects. It also includes 230 uniform patterns, 70 mixed patterns, and 175 standard motifs.

Select levels have the ability to read CorelDRAW® *.cdr files and include new vector and improved trace tools to help you produce beautiful embroidery designs faster than ever before. Other features include new elastic fills, columns, and stitch types; an auto-interactive digitizing wizard for quickly converting vector objects or bitmapped images into stitch files; and the Magic Wand Inteli-trace digitizing tool for intelligent hand tracing. V.8 design systems still contain all of the manual digitizing tools necessary to have absolute control over everything you produce, while offering new time-saving features, giving you the best of both worlds.

SWF East offers a full line of singlehead and multihead embroidery equipment, accessories, software, and supplies, as well as digital direct-to-garment printers and screen printing equipment. For more information, contact SWF East at 877-793-3278;e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or visit www.swfeast.com.