Specifications
TruE™ 3 Studio – Adjust and combine embroidery designs, frames and flourishes
- Adjust your designs
- Select from 1350 embroideries: 800+ standard embroideries and 550+ SuperDesigns. (TruE™ 3 Elite provides an additional 100 Bonus premium embroidery designs from exclusive design collections.)
- Instantly rotate, mirror and resize designs with stitch density control. Move the center of rotation if desired. Rotate 45 degrees with a single click!
- Select multiple designs and move them as a group: align, center or move a design into the hoop automatically.
- Move, add or delete stitches, color, stop and trim commands, and tie stitches. Also adjust stitch properties in many SuperDesigns.
- Frame your lettering or any design
- Surround lettering or a design with 500+ beautiful decorative frames and flourishes that fit around them with your preferred margin. Includes 36 frames designed for Puffy Foam!
- Alternatively, create a border for lettering or a design in one of 75 shapes, automatically – you can even use decorative motifs!
- Add an individual decorative motif, motif underline, or motif border from certain embroidery machines and a number of unique motifs including beautiful hand stitches. Select from 700+ motifs!
- Repeat your embroideries
- Repeat & reflect designs automatically with the Encore features. Encore multiple designs along 8 different line types or in a circle. Encore a design in one of 28 shapes or to border your hoop with an alternative design in the corners.
- Make any embroidery Endless; repeat your favorite embroideries across your chosen hoop. Choose from four types of alignment stitches for easy re–hooping and a perfect result!
- Preview and embroider your project
- When your project is complete, preview it on a real garment background; 2400+ garment, fabric and quilt block backgrounds are included, or add your own.
- Print all the embroideries with real–size backgrounds to use as templates.
- Remove overlap automatically when combining or exporting, and split your project for many turnable hoops. Change a design´s stitchout order by moving it forward or backward.
TruE™ 3 Studio – Personalize your projects
- Smart lettering for endless options
- Choose from 145+ specially created fonts to create text and monograms in single or multiple lines. Includes six Puffy Foam fonts!
- Change the way your lettering appears with one of 21 line types.
- Lettering is created with automatic kerning or adjust spacing individually between letters.
- Preview fonts when selecting – see all your fonts at once in the Font Viewer – and check spelling and grammar as you type.
- Choose density, patterns and other options before or after you create your text.
- Smart Lettering automatically creates your text below the selected design or as a circle around it.
- Create fonts and monograms automatically
- Generate fonts automatically from TrueType® or OpenType® fonts on your computer with the QuickFont Assistant. You have six stitch types to choose from; Satin, Fill, Fill + Satin Border, Satin Border, Appliqué, and Outline with Running, Double or Triple Stitch.
- The Monogram Assistant helps you make one, two, or three letter monograms to personalize your garments, towels or home furnishings. The possibilities are unlimited with 500+ envelope types and the ability to add a border.
TruE™ 3 QuickCreate Assistant - Create standard, redwork or border designs automatically to personalize any project
- Three design styles
- Create a standard embroidery using satin and fill areas.
- With QuickBorder you can create running stitch, motif, satin border or appliqué around enclosed areas.
- Trace outlines in a picture with QuickTrace to make redwork and quilting designs.
- Fit the hoop or selected area.
- Includes a library of 375 clipart images.
- Picture File Formats
- The following popular image file formats may be loaded: Bitmap (.bmp), Encapsulated PostScript (.epi,.eps), Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), JPEG-JFIF Compliant (.jpg, .jfif, .jpeg), JPEG 2000 (.jp2, jpf), JPEG Multi-Picture Object (.mpo), Photoshop (.psd), Portable Document Format (.pdf), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Postscript (.ps),Tagged Image File Format uncompressed (.tiff, .tif), Camera RAW (.raw & many others), High Dynamic Range (.exr, hdr).
- Load a photo directly from your MacBook® computer!
TruE™ 3 PhotoStitch Assistant - Embroider photo-realistic portraits automatically from your favourite photos
- Bring your photos to life!
- Create wonderful greeting cards, family quilts, framed pictures and much more.
- Select from 10 stitch effects including color*, color tile*, grayscale monochrome* and heritage sepia*. A wonderful representation of your photo is created in stitching with multiple threads.
- Alternatively, the monochrome linear effect offers a single-color embroidery for a quicker stitchout. Use artistic effects like spiral or maze to create beautiful, single-color designs.
- Choose different options for the portrait
- Fit the hoop or selected area.
- Improve your photos: Use autolevels, crop, rotate and remove backgrounds to adjust your pictures for the best embroidery result.
- Adjust density to achieve new effects.
- Add a frame or border to finish your design
- Frame the PhotoStitch automatically with your choice of over 500 frames and corners.
- Alternatively, create a border around the portrait in one of 75 shapes, using satin stitch, running or triple stitch or even machine motifs!
TruE™ 3 Common Features
- Create, edit, display and print designs in true three–dimensional reality
- Make your choice of background color and select from eight different fabric textures.
- Life View helps you see your projects with real-world perspective. Watch Solar Active and Glow in the Dark threads change, and preview designs with special techniques such as Puffy Foam, twin needle and dual threads!
- Designs are shown in your preferred real–life hoop.
- Watch your design “stitching” on the screen with the Design Player.
- The Zoom Slider makes it easy to magnify or shrink the embroidery view. Swipe your Mac® Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad to pan around the work area.
- Print your embroideries with color worksheets and real–size background templates
- Complete control at your fingertips
- The Zoom Slider makes it easy to magnify or shrink the embroidery view. Swipe your Mac® Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad to pan around the work area.
- Use multi-touch gestures: “pinch” to resize or “twist” to rotate the selected embroidery.
- Easily constrain perfect proportions when resizing.
- Choose between inches or millimeters; view any measurements in US or metric as an alternative to your current settings.
- So easy to use
- Undo and Redo is unlimited.
- Help is always at hand with the printed User´s Guides. A range of online learning materials is provided including tool tips, extensive program help, Internet FAQs and a Learning Center with interactive tutorials.
- VANTAGE™ complimentary Embroidery Software Support membership is also included! (1 year for TruE™ 3 Elite; 90 days for TruE™ 3 Elements; available in North America only).
- Store information about your designs in the Notes and Settings. Automatically record the Settings used when creating lettering, selecting frames and so on!
- Smart Update always gives you the latest system.
- Select and organize your favorite thread colors
- Organize your thread stash and create your own thread palettes with TruE™ 3 Thread Cache - create a shopping list for your iPhone or iPad, or to print!
- View specialty threads including metallic, multi–color and varying thicknesses. Select from 20,000 thread previews from 37 manufacturers.
- Hover over a color block to highlight stitches of the selected color.
- Pick a color from the Mac® Colors Window to find your threads or adjust colors automatically with Color Tone.
- Use the intelligent ColorSort feature to reduce the number of thread changes when you sew.
- Multi-format and multi–document: load and save most popular embroidery formats
- Load designs by thumbnail view or from the Finder, search the name and notes in Spotlight or open by file name.
- Convert a batch of embroideries to other formats in the Finder. View and print the color worksheet directly from the Finder and send a design directly to your connected HUSQVARNA VIKING® or PFAFF® machine.
- File types: Bernina ART (.art version 1-3)*, Brother/Babylock/Bernina PEC (.pec), Brother/Babylock/Bernina PES (.pes version 2-9), Compucon/Singer PSW (.xxx), Husqvarna Viking / Pfaff (.vp3, .vip), Husqvarna (.hus, .shv), Janome (.jef, .sew), Melco (.exp), Pfaff (.pcs), Tajima (.dst), and Toyota (.10*).
- View multiple projects side by side. Automatically reopen designs when launching applications. Design parts stay separate unless you combine.
- Many features make stitching out your embroidery project easier: Combine, ColorSort and remove overlap automatically when exporting designs to improve stitchout quality. Split your project automatically to fit in your preferred turnable hoop.