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Features

Coats EDV is designed to provide industry professionals with a tool for viewing, modifying and exchanging embroidery design files; it is based on entry-level viewing software used in the embroidery industry with the additional of some innovative features and functions.

Coats EDV is simple to use and quick to download and provides the following tools:

  • Database functions: allows you to search your hard disk drive for embroidery file formats; view and read them; make changes & insertions (see below) and save them into <.ngs> format for your record keeping and export them into the major embroidery machine formats. The results can be e-mailed, printed or saved
  • Viewing digitised designs: allows you to view the design; run through it stitch-by-stitch; look at embedded objects and simulate actual embroidery by seeing the design in 3-D against a variety of fabric and coloured backgrounds
  • Make changes or notes: allows you to make notes on the design and anything relevant to the sampling or production; allows you to insert or delete machine functions such as stops and thread trims - to change the design start and finish points and also to group or ungroup objects inside the design
  • Design and review thread colours: the Colour Manager allows you to view and change the colours used by each needle; it also allows you to build your own custom colours and palettes as well as choose from the extensive range of Coats Embroidery Global Colour References in both Coats Alcazar viscose rayon and Coats Sylko trilobal polyester
  • Production and materials management: the Design Information menu provides details of the amount of thread used in each design, allows you to calculate machine time needed for production and - through the Thread Useage Calculator - calculate the exact amount of thread needed to complete your production order

    For more information: click here to download Coats EDV 1.5

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Embroidery machine formats:

Coats EDV software can read the following machine formats:

Machine Make
File
Machine
File
Wings eXPerience
.ngs
Pfaff/KSM
.ksm
Wings 2.x & 3.x
.mls
Compucon
.xxx
Wings 2000
.mls
Happy
.tap
Tajima
.dst
Melco Expanded
.exp
Tajima
.dsz
Melco Condensed
.cnd

Tajima

.dsb
APS/DOS
.stc
Sunstar (SWF)
.sst
   



NGS format
: please note you can save files onto your hard disk in <.ngs> or <.mls> format; the main advantages are as follows:

  • only takes up 30% of the file space of a machine format such as Tajima .dst
  • faster electronic transmission of designs via e-mail or the internet
  • save notes and other information which is lost if saved as a machine format
  • files can be searched more easily and faster using database options


You can also save designs in the following formats; please note that some of the production and other information contained in your file may be lost in translation into machine formats other than .NGS and .MLS:

Machine Make
File
Wings eXPerience 1.5
.ngs
Wings - all versions incl. 2000
.mls
Tajima
.dst
Tajima
.dsz

Tajima

.dsb
Pfaff
.ksm
Happy
.tap

Melco expanded

.exp
Sunstar (SWF)
.sst

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System capabilities:

Coats EDV 1.5 cannot edit stitches or modify objects embedded in the designs; this needs to be done with normal digitising software - for more details on the Wings Product range please click here

The software can insert notes & basic machine functions into designs and save them into <.ngs> formated files or export them into major embroidery machine formats

Warning: embedded notes will be lost if exported into machine formats

 
Warning neither Coats Plc nor Wings Systems Ltd. can accept liability for any consequential damages caused by the use of this software; in case of doubt please consult an embroidery industry professional to advise you on the correct use of this type of software. Please refer to our legal notices for more details. Both Coats Plc and Wings Systems Ltd would be pleased to offer advice and recommendations through their dedicated service networks.