Embroidery Office® EDIT - Comparison Chart
SIERRA v8 Lettering & Editing Levels: LETTERING, EDIT I, EDIT II
  
● Included Feature
○ Optional Feature
 
Embroidery Office Design (EOD) - INTL
User Interface, Synchronized Windows, etc 1 2 3
Zoom Options, Dynamic Zoom, Fit to.. ● ● ●
Auto Scroll ● ● ●
Show / Hide Color Layers ● ● ●
Slow Redraw, Redraw Speed ● ● ●
Ruler, Grid & Sub-Grid ● ● ●
Measuring Ruler ● ● ●
Show Hoops ● ● ●
Show / Hide Objects ● ● ●
Simulation View, Real Time, Print   ● ●
Stitch List View   ● ●
Navigation Bar   ● ●
Editable Infocard ● ● ●
Print from Infocard   ● ●
OI Quick     ●
OI Advanced     ●
Browse Designs   ● ●
Motif Library   ● ●
MDI (multiple design documents)   ● ●
Undo Size: 4 ● ● ●
Customize Toolbars & Shortcut Keys   ● ●
Lettering System      
Multi-Line Text, Multi-Color Text ● ● ●
Auto Kerning & Character Spacing ● ● ●
Text from Pre-Digitized Embroidery Fonts (close point) ● ● ●
Text from True Type Fonts (TTF1) ○ ○ ○
TTF1 - Fill Objects: Borderline, Body, Both ○ ○ ○
TTF1 - Borderlines with: Running Stitch, Zig-Zag, E, EE, SQ ○ ○ ○
TTF1 - Body with: Column Stitches (Zig-Zag) ○ ○ ○
TTF1 - Body with: Pattern, Programmable Stitch ○ ○ ○
Text from True Type Fonts (TTF2) ○ ○ ○
TTF2 - Borderlines with: Programable Stitch, Sequin ○ ○ ○
TTF2 - Body with: Flexible Fill, Cross Stitch, Texture, Sequin ○ ○ ○
Layouts Std: Arcs, Stair, Regular box, Elastic Box ● ● ●
Layouts Adv: User Baseline, Top and Bottom lines     ●
Save new layouts     ●
Move Letters (manual kerning) ● ● ●
Resize Individual Letters   ● ●
Edit Objects inside texts ● ● ●
Edit Stitches Setting ● ● ●
Adjustments & Compensation ● ● ●
Built In Effects: Shadow, Perspective, Offset, etc. ○ ○ ○
Create Custom Effects for TTF ○ ○ ○
Produce Monogram Design ○ ○ ○
Produce Team Names Designs ○ ○ ○
Digitizing Modes      
Manual, Click by Click     ●
Pattern Fill Only ○ ○ ○
Running Stitch, ZigZag & Pattern Fills ○ ○ ○
Photo-Stitching (B&W + Color) ○ ○ ○
Cross Stitch ○ ○ ○
Digitizing Methods & Objects      
Manual Stitches (on Creation Tools) ● ● ●
Path w/ Running Stitch     ●
Column w/ Zig Zag     ●
Underlay: Centered, Edge Walk, Zig Zag, Parallel ● ● ●
Wireframe Editing      
Edit Object Shape & Elements     ●
Convert to Stitch Object   ● ●
Expanded Editing      
Select Stitch by click   ● ●
Auto Select Stitch (Next, Prev)   ● ●
Move, Delete, Add Stitches (w/wo compensation)   ● ●
Add, Delete, Edit Control   ● ●
Select All   ● ●
Select by Color     ●
Select by Start-End Point, by Navigation     ●
Select by Rectangle, by Contourn     ●
Select by Object (RS, ZZ, Pattern Recognition)     ●
Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Keep selection (crop)   ● ●
Move, Rotate, Scale (wo/ density compensation)   ● ●
Mirror H, V, Fix Rotation, Angular Rotation   ● ●
Envelope distortion (bridge, panoramic, etc)   ● ●
Scale Block (w/ density compensation)   ● ●
Filter Small stitches     ●
Change ZigZag properties (density, width, angle)     ●
Smooth ZigZag border     ●
Randomize ZigZag border     ●
Change Patern properties (density, width, type)     ●
Smooth Area-Pattern border     ●
Randomize Area-Pattern border     ●
Convert ZigZag to Pattern and viceversa     ●
Convert Stitch Block to Objects (exp 2 cnd)     ●
Object Recognition Settings     ●
Edit Object Wireframe     ●
Globe, Len, Noise, Speed, Explosion, etc     ●
Custom Grid     ●
Sort Sequence by Color ● ● ●
Move Start & End Points ● ● ●
Reconnect Block     ●
Repeat Designs (basic) ● ● ●
System & User Components      
Motifs 40 40 40
Pre-Digitized Lettering Fonts 70 70 70
Pre-Digitized Monogramming Fonts 15 15 15
Uniform Patterns (Hand) 40 40 40
Uniform Patterns (Math) 70 70 70
Graphic Patterns 80 80 80
Mixed Patterns 20 20 20
Programmable Stitches 40 40 40
Textures 0 0 0
3D Models for 3D Space Simulation 6 6 6
Hoops DB ● ● ●
Thread Charts ● ● ●
Fabrics ● ● ●
Hoops DB ● ● ●
Thread Charts ● ● ●
Fabrics ● ● ●
Embroidery Explorer Module      
Folders tree ● ● ●
Task Panel ● ● ●
Search on Folders ● ● ●
View Options 1: as List, Details, Icons ● ● ●
View Options 2: Small/Large Thumbnail, w/wo details ● ● ●
View image formats ● ● ●
Rename, Delete ● ● ●
Cut, Copy, Paste or Drag (single) ● ● ●
Cut, Copy, Paste or Drag (multiple) ● ● ●
Export to floppy (machine formats) ● ● ●
Simple Printout ● ● ●
Advanced Print Formats   ● ●
Print multiple designs per page   ● ●
InfoCard, Read Only ● ● ●
InfoCard, Editable Form ● ● ●
InfoCard, Print Options   ● ●
DL Classification   ● ●
View Options 1: as Table   ● ●
View Options 2: Small/Large Thumbnail, w/wo details   ● ●
Store on DL. Single / Multiple (from disk or other media)   ● ●
Export to other medias (ex. FDD, HDD, Network, Book, etc.)   ● ●
Advanced Search on DL   ● ●
Multiple Print as Catalog   ● ●
Compact DL DB   ● ●
Backup / Restore DL   ● ●
Read Book Documents ● ● ●
Print Book Documents ● ● ●
Create Standard Books (grid style) - Emb. Publisher 1   ○ ○
Create Advanced Books (custom layout) - Emb. Publisher 2   ○ ○
Export Book to Graphic Files   ○ ○
Export Book to CD   ○ ○
Export to HTML   ○ ○
Load/Save from/to Web Folders ○ ○ ○
Import Profiles ABM ● ● ●
Export Profiles ABM ● ● ●
EO-Net2 Standard ○ ○ ○
EO-Net2 Advanced ○ ○ ○
3D Space Module      
MDI, Multiple Documents ● ● ●
Thread Colors Settings ● ● ●
Background Color or Fabrics ● ● ●
Simulation of Borer on Design ● ● ●
Simulation of Applique/s on Design ● ● ●
Print ● ● ●
Export Simulation as Image ● ● ●
EO-3D Models ● ● ●
Edit EO-3D Models textures ● ● ●
Add Embroidery on EO-3D Models ● ● ●
Add Screenprinting on EO-3D Models ● ● ●
Export Spacial Simulation as Image file ● ● ●
Export Spacial Simulation as AVI file ● ● ●
 
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