Machine format · EXP
EXP embroidery files for Melco and Bernina machines.
EXP is the stitch format Melco and Bernina machines read. Turn any logo into an EXP with Qepe, read back and compared with the screen before it is saved.
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What is a EXP file?
EXP is Melco’s stitch format, and Bernina’s embroidery machines read it too. Like DST, it holds needle points, jumps and colour changes and no thread colours: the colours are set on the machine. Qepe writes it for both makers and checks every file before it is saved.
- Qepe’s production worksheet lists the needles in stitch order with their threads, since an EXP can’t hold them.
- Melco’s Summit reads DST as well; Qepe writes both.
How to make a EXP file from a logo
Open the logo
PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, PDF or AI. Qepe grades the file first: Good file, OK file or Poor file, with the reason.
Pick the machine
Choose Melco in the machine chip, and Qepe uses its needles and hoops. EXP is the machine’s own file there, or one click away under Export.
Set the size, garment and colours
Left chest, cap front, sleeve, full back or your own size in millimetres; ten garments, each with its own underlay, density and pull compensation.
Digitize and check
The Auto Digitizer makes the stitches. Quality scores them against the artwork out of 100, and Fix all corrects what is safe to correct.
Export EXP
Qepe writes the file, reads it back and compares every needle point with the screen. A file that doesn’t match is never saved, and the old one stays.
Convert DST to EXP
Open the DST file, or one in any of the 40 formats Qepe opens: it opens stitched as the file has it, to recolour, move or add a name to. Export writes the EXP and checks it like any other file. A machine file has no shapes to stitch again, so resizing it by more than 10 % changes its density: for a new size, digitize from the logo.
What Qepe compares before a EXP is saved
- Every needle point, each within 0.06 mm of the screen
- Every thread change and needle
- Every trim and stop
- The header the machine reads: stitch count, colours, extents and label
- The thread names, where the format keeps them
Questions
- What is an EXP embroidery file?
- Melco’s stitch format: needle points, jumps and colour changes, read by Melco machines and by Bernina’s embroidery machines.
- Does an EXP file keep thread colours?
- No. It holds the stitches and the colour changes; the threads are set on the machine. Qepe’s worksheet lists them for the operator.
- Can Qepe write EXP for a Bernina?
- Yes. Choose Bernina in the machine chip and Qepe writes EXP, sized for the Bernina hoops it knows.
The other formats Qepe writes
Your next logo, ready to embroider.
Turn the next logo your customer sends into a checked, machine-ready file, on your Mac or PC.
Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year