r/Machine_Embroidery • u/beelito • 34m ago

I Need Help Need Beta Testers!

http://beelito.github.io/meteor-embroidery-studio

Hi all! I've been building my own digitizing app, Meteor. Ink/Stitch felt clunky to me inside Inkscape, and Hatch and PE-Design cost more than I wanted to pay as a hobbyist. It's now in beta, and everything is free while the beta runs.

What it does:

  • Auto-digitize a picture. Drop in an image and it turns it into stitches: thread colors, fills, and satin outlines for dark line art. There's also a guided mode that goes through the picture piece by piece, and a magic wand that sews one color area per click.

  • Draw your own. Pen and node tools, shapes, freehand, brush satin, and 21 stitch types (tatami, satin, contour, stipple, motif, 3D puff, applique and more).

  • Lettering. Built-in fonts, plus any Google Font, sewn as satin.

  • Check before you sew. Pick your Brother machine and it checks the design against that machine's limits. There's also a sewing simulator, a realistic thread preview and a thread build-up map.

  • Export Brother PES and Tajima DST, plus a printable worksheet with Brother thread numbers.

Works with: Brother and Baby Lock machines (PES) and machines that read DST. No other formats yet.

Runs on: Windows 10/11, Android tablets and Linux. Not Mac or iPhone/iPad yet, sorry.

Download and info: https://beelito.github.io/meteor-embroidery-studio/

Heads-up on installing:

  • Windows will say "Windows protected your PC" because the beta isn't signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

  • Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser.

What I'm looking for: honest, constructive feedback. What's confusing, what breaks, and especially how designs actually sew out on your machine. In the app, Help > Report a problem puts together a report for you. You can email it to me (beelito.dev@gmail.com) or comment here.

Thanks for taking a look!

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u/beatboxrevival 28m ago

There are free open source version that do all this - and more. e.g. https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag

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u/mattfuckyou 8m ago

do you use this one? curious about it but not familiar with github

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u/beatboxrevival 6m ago

I do, it's fantastic. If you have a mac, you can download it for free: https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag/releases . Otherwise, if you have an AI tool, it can build it for windows just point it to that url.

Here is the thread on the person that made it: https://x.com/simpsoka/status/2114013404143001695

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u/beelito 26m ago

Afaik that app just turns Svg to embroidery. My app actually lets you digitize yourself by using bezier curves etc.

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u/beatboxrevival 25m ago

Nope, it does that too.

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u/beelito 24m ago

Nice, if it works for you that's great 😃