The same mark, twice: sewn by the engine on the left, and drawn on the right. An SVG is the drawing – no stitches, no thread, no size baked in.

Getting it onto the machine

Open it in any drawing program. It is not for the machine.

How the file is built

This one is not stitches. It is the shapes the engine traced, written as clean curves – the drawing your stitch file was built from. 2 decimals per millimetre, ten times finer than anything that was traced.

Colours

Every shape keeps the colour it was traced with, and the largest is written first so it sits at the back.

What goes wrong with a SVG file

SVG is a drawing, not a stitch file. No embroidery machine reads it – it is what you send to a person, or open in Illustrator, Figma or Inkscape.
Coordinates are written with 2 decimals. That is far below anything a machine can place, so scaling never rounds away something you would see.
The same file is right at 20 mm and at 300 mm. That is the whole point of a vector – and it is the one export neither Ember nor SewFlow offers.

If your machine is not listed

Use DST. Every commercial machine reads it, and most home machines will too – it is the format the trade falls back on. The stitches are identical in all seven; only the wrapper differs, so «which format?» is a question about your machine and never about quality.

Why make it here

You see the whole mark before you pay – every stitch, at the size you asked for. If it is not right, do not buy it.
Nobody touches the file afterwards. What is on screen is what the machine gets, and it is worked out in seconds, not in a day.
The same stitches come out in all seven formats. Change your machine and you do not start over – you pick another format.
From $0.40 a file on a yearly plan. Studio’s first month is $9 for 20 files, then $29 a month – cancel any time.

Drop a logo, look at it closely, and take the SVG only if it is right.

What you can send in

Make a SVG file

Written by our own writer for this format – not converted from someone else’s file.