Stitch Era embroidery software

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Introduction

• Stitch Era Universal by Sierra is an advanced free embroidery design software that you can get under certain conditions:
• You only get it from an authorized place
• You need to register a key (and renew it periodically)
• The application must be conntect to the Internet permanently and there are advertizements
• The free version limist stitch count to 40'000 stitches.

Download and installation

Stitch Era Universal is distributed by Authorized Distributors (either via CD or online) unless you are lucky to live in a country without. Installation and use requires a permanent Internet connection. Software contains advertising. Download can take a long time and you need to find a download site for your country (e.g. for France use Annika's site). You first have to install a downloader, then a download the > 400 MB installation files with the downloader program.

After going through the complicated finding-a-place-to-download, the double download and authentication, we found that this program runs fine on Win 7 64 bit.

The user interface

Main divisions of the stitch Era workspace

1. File Menu button and quick access toolbar
2. Ribbon bar (main tools). These can change contextually.
3. Create and edit tools / color palette
4. Display and reference controls

Links

Official

• Stitch Era Universal Website #1
• stitchera website #2

Official documentation

• Stitch era distributes a nice 250 page printable PDF manual.