Condensed Design Files Design format
Design embroidery format files or condensed files (extension .dsg or cnd) are very different from expanded files: It contains detailed information about the entities the design is made of, colors and needles used, images used as reference, etc. and, of course, stitches information. Embroidery design files could not be sent directly to embroidery machines; you need to Export them in the code you want before sending to the machine.
Open, Save and Export embroidery files
Use the Open command to load all types of designs (expanded and condensed) into Embroidery Office software. The Open Design box that appears has several features:- You can browse your units using the left panel and the Look In control available in the toolbar
- You can switch the View mode to icons, details, several thumbnails mode, etc
- You can select the codes to be displayed or use the All Files filter to indicate embroidery software (example Embroidery Office version 11) to display all types of embroidery files
To open a machine embroidery design just double click on it (or select with one click and press the Open button).
While you are working with a design, you will need to save it time to time. The Save command is perfect for this, because it saves your design with the same format (either expanded or condensed) in the same folder and with the same name.
If you need to save a condensed design with a different name, use the Save as command. It allows you to specify a new name and to select a different path to save your design. When you finish your work with a condensed design, save it for the last time to keep the last changes made and use the Export command to prepare it to be sent to your embroidery machine. If later, you need to make some changes, open the dsg file (condensed), make the changes, save the dsg file and export it again. This procedure may sound too indirect at this point but, as you will discover in the following chapters, dsg files are much easier and flexible to modify than expanded design files. The whole idea is to work, all the time, with dsg files and export them into expanded files just to send them to the machine.
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