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What is Hatch Embroidery Software?
Hatch is an easy-to-use machine embroidery & digitizing software program that’ll quickly transform your creative ideas into reality with professional results. Whether you want to create beautiful designs from scratch, edit designs you purchased, personalize a project with professional lettering and monograms, or simply organize and convert your design files, Hatch is the perfect embroidery software for you.
Want Exclusive Hatch Bonuses?
Any software program is only as good as the education & support that comes with it. As an official Hatch reseller, when you purchase or download the free trial of Hatch through us, we provide you with every tool necessary to turn your embroidery dreams into a reality quickly & easily.
Purchase Hatch Embroidery Software Through Embroidery Legacy & Receive
- Up to $251 of Exclusive Bonuses: Including additional ESA fonts and monograms (which you choose yourself from the world’s largest database of almost 1000 ESA fonts), extra embroidery designs (which you’ll choose from close to 30,000 optional designs), access to our Digitizer’s Dream Course, and more! See which bonuses come with which levels of Hatch by clicking here.
- Professional Hatch Education: Taught by John Deer, the world’s most awarded embroidery digitizer for over two decades.
- Access to our “Hatch Facts” Online Community: With over 11,400 members, we run the world’s largest interactive Hatch Facebook group on the internet. Share your projects, ask questions, and connect with other like-minded embroiderers.
- Superior Customer Support: We’ll hold your hand every step of the way.
“The bonuses were instrumental. I am a very satisfied customer of the Hatch Software purchased through Embroidery Legacy. The purchase and installation process was very easy. The support and educational products are excellent. I feel that I can continue to progress as I learn more about digitizing.“
– Anita Jennings
You’re Even Covered by a Full 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
You can relax knowing that after your trial, if you purchase Hatch, you’re covered by a full 30-day money-back guarantee. You’ll have confidence in knowing that if Hatch doesn’t provide you with everything you need to take your embroidery to the next level, we’ll gladly refund your money. That’s how confident we are that this will be the best investment you ever make in your embroidery.
Hatch Embroidery Software Levels
There are four levels of Hatch to meet your embroidery needs. You can purchase the software all at once with the Digitizer level, or in chunks with the option to easily upgrade as your embroidery skills grow.
Organizer
Personalizer
Composer
Digitizer
- Find and organize all your embroidery design files with the Manage Library feature
- View them right inside the software
- View the design information without opening it up
- Search by name, size, stitch count, colors, etc.
- Make your own catalog of your designs
- Over 200 designs included in the software!
- It's so easy to get the designs ready for your machine
- Export to your machine format. Convert multiple files at one time
- Select your machine or enter your own.
- Set or create your hoops
- Set the start/end needed by your machine
- Easily change colors of your design
- Change your thread brand and match your design to it
- Optimize your design colors when finished
- Enhanced Color matching options
- Quickly resize by 10% up or down
- Resize your designs directly on screen
- Resize by exact measurements
- Adjust density if needed after resizing
- Set the fabric you will stitch on and the software will make the necessary adjustments for underlay, pull compensation, and density.
- Create your own fabrics
- See what stabilizer is recommended for your fabric type
- Combine designs
- Easier matching thread charts and matching colors
- Rotate designs
- Recogonize Stitches and convert to objects
- Adjust stitch spacing (density)
- Stitch player
- True view
- Multiple viewing options
- Design information to preview
- View your garment on articles to see how your project will look finished
- Grid template for sewing out
- Select from one of the many machines and hoops included
- Add your own machines
- Create hoops
- US or metric measurements
- Rotate hoops
- Adjust background colors to work best with your project (and eyes)
- Change your starting and ending position before sending to machine
- Select fabric type and allow Hatch to make adjustments to your design
- Print preview of your design before stitching or at any time while working on the design
- Set up your worksheet with over 30 options to view and print
- Print out sewing order and thread colors
- Export to most domestic machines formats
- Export Cutting Files - Export your applique and/or closed object files as an SVG
- Capture Design Image
- Show and print hoop templates for accurate placement of design on garment
- Add on upgrades when ready - you do not need to buy again!
- Easily select blocks of color and change the threads or the color
- Add on higher levels at any time without buying again
- Purchase more fonts
- Create your own lettering
- Add lettering to existing designs
- Up to 108 professionally digitized pre-loaded fonts
- Unlimited fonts using TrueType & OpenType Fonts
- Create your own unqiue monogram using one of the 85+ pre-set templates.
- View and Click!...Just change the letters, color and size desired; you will be ready to stitch!
- Reshape the lettering text to create "creative text"
- Customize the templates with 385 Ornaments, and 79 Borders
- New ready to use Monogram templates (16)
- Automatically put stitches to your simple and clean artwork
- Select from instantly creating stitches or interactive
- Select from 5 click -n- stitch to give you even more control
- Prepare and edit your artwork
- Open your artwork from right inside the Design Library or from the Artwork Toolbox
- Select the method you want to match colors for Auto-Digitizing
- Easy 1-click to set multiple hoops
- 1 click to split the design into sewing fields that will match your selected hoop
- 1-click to output the design to multiple files in your machine format
- View hoopings before you finish
- Place your own hoops if desired
- Reshape objects
- Add or remove stitch angles
- Branch objects to prevent unwanted jumps
- Cut filled and outline design objects apart with the knife tool
- Break apart combined objects and lettering
- Remove overlaps when objects have several layers of stitches
- Define your work area and layout your design block quickly
- Apply closest join to mininize jump stitches
- Edit individual stitches of stitch files
- Remove overlaps when objects have several layers of stitches
- Knife tool cuts outline and filled objects
- Endless ways at your fingertips to help easily layout your design
- Define your work area and layout your design block quickly
- 5 easy ways to mirror objects or the entire design
- Create an entire circle with one object giving an instant mandala block effect
- Basiting Stitch Markers and Graphic Markers
- Change the sewing order of individual objects
- Easily sort colorsy
- View by objects or colors
- Enhanced Sequence by selected objectst
- Gradient Fill
- Create your own shading with Color Blend
- Intergrates with CorelDRAW® 2017, SE8
- Select from 10 digitizing tools for manually creating your own designs
- 12 main types of stitches that can be edited to become an endless number of stitches types
- Quick digitizing shapes (60)
- Create and outline or multiple offsets with object shapes
- Select the type of corners
- "Select to include holes or not(This is priceless for making those Key Fobs)"
- Color PhotoStitch will instantly create stitched images from your photos
- Photo Flash gives you 2 color instant embroidery
- Create Redwork designs with multiple types of outlines
- Combine objects into one object
- 1-click to convert closed objects to an Applique'
- Manually Digitize appliques
- Set up preferences of how you want it to stitch
- Optimize applique for best sewing order
- Select from one color or color stops with applique
- Backtrack and Repeat
- Digitize holes
- Filled holes
- Remove holes
- Create and edit Motifs
- Create and edit borders
- Edit Embossed designs
- Create and edit motifs
- Stipple Run, Backstitch, and Stemstitch
- Cross-stitch
- Blanket stitch
- 3-D wrap
- Radial Fill
- Florentine
- Elastic Embossed Fills can to turn with the shape of the object
- Combine two motifs in a single object with Alternating Motifs
- Set up quilt blocks with Ambirance quilting stitches
- Create Trapunto outlines
- Automatically add 9 basic and creative buttonholes (that you can actually cut!)
- new 3D foam font
Added Bonus: Embroidery Digitizing Made Easy Challenge
Download your 30-day free Hatch through us and get access to our Digitizing Made Easy Challenge! Whether you’ve never used embroidery software or currently own another brand and want to see the latest and greatest technology available, our 30-day Challenge will take you by the hand and show you how easy it is to create and edit your own designs using Hatch. Within this Challenge, you’ll follow along 7 short video lessons with John Deer, the world’s most awarded digitizer, and create 6 designs yourself from start to finish!
- Part 1: Introduction – This lesson will introduce you to the challenge and cover the main Hatch tools you’ll be using.
- Part 2: Basic Digitizing – Here you’ll create 2 embroidery designs yourself! You’ll learn how to create design outlines, redwork, and learn to properly add basic fills and colors into your designs.
- Part 3: Creative Digitizing – Next, you’ll learn how to digitize more artistic designs using florentine fill effects. You’ll also create another design combining multiple stitch types and learn how to blend fills.
- Part 4: ESA Technology & Quilting Made Easy – Finally, you’ll learn how to easily create custom quilt blocks in minutes! Whether it’s fonts, monograms, quilt blocks, or simple designs, ESA technology really is a software game-changer.
Free Fashion Tiger Embroidery Design
Download this beautiful embroidery design as an extra bonus for downloading your 30-day Hatch trial through us!
Hatch Embroidery Software Reviews
Here’s what our satisfied Hatch customers have to say…
Frequently Asked Hatch Questions:
Hatch works with virtually every embroidery machine. Please see the machine formats that Hatch can read and write below. If your format is there, than yes Hatch will work with your machine.
Hatch will read most domestic embroidery file types. It can read the following formats:
- Wilcom: .EMB & .EMX
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
- Janome: .JAN .JEF .JEF+ .JPX .SEW .EMX .EMD
- Bernina: .ART .EXP .ARX .ART70 .ART60 .ART50 .ART42 .ART (V1/2/3/4)
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES .PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco Condensed .CND
- Great Notions .GNC
Hatch can write the following formats:
- Save as: .EMB (.EMB is your “working file”. Although not necessary, it is recommended to save all designs to .EMB before you export to your machine format. This is the best format to edit your designs in the future)
Export designs to:
- .EXP
- .DST
- Janome/Elna: JEF .JPX .SEW .EMD
- Bernina: .EXP
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES . PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
Unlike some of the other embroidery software trials out there, there are NO limitations to the free 30 day Hatch trial. The trial version of Hatch DOES allow you to save and stitch out your designs. In our opinion, the only way to truly see the quality of any embroidery software is to test stitch outs.
There are 4 levels of the Hatch software. The level of Hatch you’ll need really depends on what you’d like the software for. For example: If you only want to add custom lettering around designs or do monogramming you’ll only need Hatch Personalizer. Or if you’d like to create your own embroidery designs, you’ll need Hatch Digitizer. To view a chart explaining which features are included with each level of Hatch Click Here.
Although Hatch is not a native Mac program, as with other PC programs, you can use Hatch with a Mac provided you use Bootcamp (built into Mac) or purchase a program to run Windows in Mac called Parallels. You will need both a copy of Windows as well as a copy of Parallels. Please visit Apple’s website or the Parallels website to get any further information and support for running Windows on a Mac.
Hatch does not require a dongle to run. It’s a downloadable product which can be used on multiple computers. This is an advantage over other programs which require dongles as you do not need to repurchase the program if a dongle is lost.
Yes. You can be signed into a maximum of 2 devices but can use Hatch software on 1 device at a time only.
You can install Hatch on as many computers as you like, but only have an active license on 2 computers and only run Hatch on one computer at a time. Hatch is a single-user license. You may run the software offline but must be connected at least one time every 30 days. If not, the software will ask you to sign in while online to check for updates, etc.
If you are using Hatch on one computer and want to use it on a different computer, you have these options:
Option 1:
- If you are running on computer 1 and want to run on computer 2:
- On computer 1 > click File Menu > sign out and release license while online.
- Then sign into computer 2, while online.
Option 2:
- If you are running on computer 1 and want to run on computer 2.
- Sign in to computer 2 and it will automatically disable the license on computer 1 for you.
- Don’t worry if you had any designs open and working on them on computer 1, the software will allow you to save them.
1. Start by clicking one of the “Download Hatch Trial” or “Buy Now” buttons here on our website. You will be redirected to one of our reseller pages on Hatch’s official website to log in and complete your trial download or purchase. Visiting Hatch’s site through one of our reseller pages will drop a tracking cookie in your browser to ensure Hatch knows you came from our website and want to receive our bonuses.
2. After arriving on the page shown above through our website, log in to your account on Hatch’s website. If you do not yet have an account, create one.
3. From here, complete your download or purchase on Hatch’s website. As long as our reseller tracking cookie is the last one dropped in your browser, we will receive credit for your trial or purchase, and you will receive our bonuses. Ensure you don’t have any cookie-blocking software active to ensure we’re marked as your reseller & you get our bonuses.
4. Next, sit back and relax, knowing you got the best possible deal on Hatch with our exclusive bonuses! Once Hatch sends us confirmation that you downloaded or purchased Hatch through us, we’ll send you an email with your amazing gifts. Please note that this can take up to a week. If it’s been longer than a week, please email us so we can get you sorted at [email protected]
Please note: We will send you your bonuses once we receive verification from Hatch that you purchased through us. For customers purchasing with Flex-pay, you will receive the same bonuses. Access to the Digitizer’s Dream Course will be provided to you once we receive confirmation of your purchase from Hatch. However, your bonus fonts & embroidery designs will not be sent until your final Flex-pay payment is completed.
Please keep in mind that we don’t take putting our name behind any product lightly. We couldn’t have made it over 60 years in the embroidery industry without putting our customers first and looking out for your best interests.
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Take your embroidery to the next level by downloading your free 30 day Hatch trial today! You’ll get unlimited use of all of Hatch’s amazing features plus our exclusive bonuses from downloading the trial here on our site.
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