Machine format · PEC
PEC embroidery files for older Brother machines, embroidery cards and Pfaff.
PEC is the stitch part of a PES, for older Brother machines, embroidery cards and Pfaff. Make a PEC from any logo with Qepe, read back before it is saved.
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What is a PEC file?
PEC is the stitch part of a PES: the needle points, jumps and colour changes, with Brother’s colour numbers and the name the machine shows. Older Brother machines and embroidery cards read it, and so do Pfaff machines. Qepe writes it and reads it back like every other file.
- For Brother PR machines, Qepe writes the whole PES, with each thread’s maker, number and name.
How to make a PEC 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 Pfaff in the machine chip, and Qepe uses its needles and hoops. PEC 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 PEC
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 PES to PEC
Open the PES 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 PEC 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 PEC 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 a PEC file?
- The stitch part of a Brother PES file, with Brother’s colour numbers and the design’s name for the machine’s screen. Older Brother machines and embroidery cards read it, and so do Pfaff machines.
- PEC or PES?
- A PES holds the PEC stitches and more: each thread’s maker, number and name. Use PES where the machine reads it, PEC for older Brother machines and cards.
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