The one McStitch, that offers everything

McStitch professional combines all the powerful tools of McStitch with a strong font editor to create your own optimized stitching fonts. With McStitch professional you have all what you'll ever need in your daily buisness. Fast, uncomplicated und very flexible.

Administration

• File management with coloured preview; Shows all embroidery files including number of stitches, colours, size, customer, date and type
• Search and filter routine: find embroideries using different criteria
• Reads and writes following embroidery disk formats: Fortron, Zangs/Marco, ZSK, Barudan, Tajima, Melco, Pfaff, Toyota
• Direct connection with serial interface to: Toyota, Fortron, Barudan
• Runtime calculation takes different machine types into account
• Thread usage calculation with adjustable variables
• Coloured output to printer and plotter up to DIN A 0
• Specifications for up to 7 application data
• Export of file data into textfile
• Direct processing of embroidery files from administration enviroment

Writing and Typing

• Integrated font editor = generate and edit your own embroidery fonts
• Type generator: Single line and multiple lines; Freely scalable, kerning, justify left, justify center, justify right
• Following pathline; Left-right skewed; Mirrored; Rotated; Character spacing, line height and character width adjustable; Multicolour fonts
• Use warping functions, brigde, arc and circle text; free adjustable in live view on screen
• Fonts: (40 special embroidery Fonts included) Arabian, Avant Garde,Bauhaus, Brush, Carneval, Cassanova, Childsplay, Comic, Courier, Formula, Frutiger, Helvetica, Hobby, Honda, Kaufmann Bold, Lolly, Lubalin Graph, Mandarin, Marjohnett, Machine, Mini 6 Platt, New York, Panda, Old English, Quartz, Quest, Revue, Rounded Block, Saddel, Script, Serifenschrift, Shelley, Sports Block, Sports Script, Sports Outline, Stencil, Tour light, Western Style, Zürich Calligraf
• All True-Type fonts can be used as fill-stitch or paralell-stitch fonts
• Satinstitch width and density freely adjustable
• Single and double underlay stitches, straight and zigzag
• Runningstitch types
• You can create types directly in the punching area

Editing

• Blockoperations: copy, move, cut, bigger, smaller, density, clean up, skew, mirror - all directions, rotate (accurate to one degree)
• Stitch streams: cut, join, hide and show, group, reverse
• Special functions: color, stop, needle change, thread-cutter, drill, jump stitches, using at different criteria
• Single stitches : insert, delete, move, select, move and delete multipe single stitches, show handles

Punching

• Direct punching on screen and with digitizer
• Support for Scanners (using autotracing or manual)
• Routines for runningstitches and multiple parallel seams (1-5) and beanstitches
• Using your shapes as form-stitches along a userdefined path
• Routines for satinstitches; automatic and semiautomatic; variable width
• Correct curve and edge handling; divided satin stitches - adjustable
• Single and double underlay stitches, straight and zigzag
• Fillstitch routines (arbitrary complex shapes even with holes) with automatic running- or satinstitch outlines. Fillstitch pattern editor for your own creations. Fast and easy
• Userdefined patterns; Userdefined style functions; Creating own user shapes is very easy
• Bezier curve for running and satin stitches
• Automatic forms (circle, quadrangle, multiple-edge, star, userdefined forms) for running, satin and fillstitches
• Data exchange (vector lines) with other applications; - such as Freehand, Canvas, Illustrator, CorellDraw, Works a.s.o; Direct Illustrator EPS import
• Quick-Punch-System is integrated; Scan in a template, trace the template, generate embroidery data - only with some mouseclicks
• Photostitch (greyscaled images a.e. animals, scenics, portrays) can be automatically transformed into single coloured embroidery file
• Recalculation mode be simply one mouseclick; Updating stitch parameters without loosing stitchbloc connections

Specials

• Electronic manual
• Up to 7 designs can be opened simultaneously
• Ruler function
• Overview
• Magnetic guidelines
• 32 way zoom
• Visible embroidery frame
• 3 D view
• slow motion view
• single stitch pass through
• Keyboard short cuts for all important functions