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U01 embroidery files for Barudan machines.

U01 is Barudan’s own embroidery format, with a needle for each colour and real stop codes. Make a U01 from any logo with Qepe, read back before it is saved.

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Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year.

Launch offer: €99 for the first year, for the first 100 shops.

What is a U01 file?

U01 is Barudan’s own embroidery format. Instead of thread colours it stores the needle each colour runs on, and it has codes of its own for trims and stops, so a stop stays a stop. Qepe writes U01 for Barudan machines, needles 1 to 15, and checks every file before it is saved.

  • More threads than the machine has needles? Qepe adds a stop to rethread and says so.
  • DSB holds the same stitches under a DST header the machine lists the design by.
705 needle points from Qepe’s file of the FC Aurora sample, in 25 mm. A U01 keeps each one, in the order the machine stitches them.

How to make a U01 file from a logo

  1. 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.

  2. Pick the machine

    Choose Barudan in the machine chip, and Qepe uses its needles and hoops. U01 is the machine’s own file there, or one click away under Export.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Export U01

    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 U01

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 U01 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 U01 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

Machines Qepe writes U01 for

Questions

What is a U01 file?
Barudan’s embroidery format: needle points, the needle for each colour, and Barudan’s own trim and stop codes.
U01 or DSB for my Barudan?
Both stitch the same: the same needles, trims and stops. DSB adds a DST header the machine lists the design by. Use the one your machine and your shop’s routine expect.
Does a U01 keep thread colours?
No, it keeps the needle each colour runs on. Qepe’s worksheet lists the needles in stitch order with their threads, so the operator threads the right colours.

The other formats Qepe writes

How to digitize a logo, step by step

Your next logo, ready to embroider.

Turn the next logo your customer sends into a checked, machine-ready file, on your Mac or PC.

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Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year