@@kocaburra if you recall exactly how I started the video, I began with talking about how the precursor to AcuStitch is the part of Horizon Link Suite where we can do some similar converting of stx decorative stitches to how the AcuStitch also uses stx stitches to create designs. AcuStitch is a separate program which is a more advanced option. And it’s had a few more updates and improvements since I made this video. I actually switch to the AcuStitch program at about 14:10!

I’m glad to read that it was helpful! The instructions are also in the Help!

You can’t do that in this program, it’s not a digitizing program. If you want to digitize, I suggest purchasing Hatch 3, and it’s on sale now 2/19/24.

Yes, I do think that the program works exactly the same regardless of which machine is being used. However, I don't have the program for a 500e series of machines, so I can't verify that entirely. The only difference will be the hoop size because the Acufil hoop (ASQ...) hoops for the different Janome machines are different sizes, but in that case your program for your particular machine will reflect that. Thank you for watching my video, if you have further questions please ask!

I’m very glad my video helped you!

The HLS came on a CD with the machine purchase. If your machine is the version 3 Quiltmaker with the pink bar under the screen the HLS with the machine was the most recent one. But if your machine is an older machine model with either turquoise or silver under the screen those machines had to be upgraded by a dealer. The dealer was responsible for telling Janome who then emailed a link to upgrade HLS. The update was never a publicly shared update and the HLS program was never available on a public site. If you’re on Facebook you can send me a message and I will attempt to send you the program if you don’t have a CD.

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing I got the transfer from computer to machine figured but I need the design from layout to machine or USB????? I do not know what I am missing to figure this out.....any help would be appreciated Faviola. Thank you

@@nancybrennan67 please give me a little more information about exactly what you’re doing and I will reply. For example are you really doing a layout for several hoopings etc

I’m glad you watched the video, let me know if you need anything else explained!

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing Thank you

Hi@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing ,I tried a small design and some alphabets from the machine. my bobbin thread is showing up.any idea whats wrong.i didnt change any settings.Thank you

@@beesan7478 When embroidering lettering/alphabets/fonts you must embroider slow, the machine needs time for the stitches to form and when we sew too fast the bobbin will pull up. So, #1, so slow. #2 use a matching color bobbin wt thread to minimize any bobbin that might pull up. #3 lessen the upper tension (-) it. #4 make sure you use the tight tension bobbin case/yellow dot

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing Thank you. i tried with -5 tension it was some what ok.i didnt understand what you meant by tight tension bobbin case?is it ok to use spun polyester thread for bobbin.i used that.should i change the speed or default one is ok.Hope you can help.Thanks again.

Yes, it’s a nifty trick!

Unfortunately for you the program is only for a windows based computer. If your Mac has been divided you could try installing it on the other side. I’m not a Mac user so that’s all the advice I can give you, sorry.

I’m glad you found it helpful!

I’m glad you found it helpful!

Thanks for watching the video, and you’re welcome! Please read the other comments and my explanations so you get a little more information if you need it, and in the event you have the same questions!

No it’s not. The way my computer is divided the D drive is where the majority of the storage space is at. Most computers the C Drive is a larger space.

No , the Horizon Link Suite is for the Janome 15000.

thank you for your comments. I have been communicating extensively with "Kathy" off of this post and have been suggesting to her the exact same that you are! I have been trying to convince her to eliminate jumps and ties as much as possible by proper pathing and even using the Redwork tool in Hatch to help achieve that goal, in addition to even connecting facial features whenever possible. The design isn't that large and tiny connections won't make much of a difference in the overall appearance, but she's also concerned that the kids still look like the original artwork. Yes, I do know that the early domestic machines didn't have thread trimmers and we were left to trim our own jumps. Sometimes I still prefer to depending on what I'm embroidering. I don't know about multi-needle machines, maybe they always had trimmers?

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing Thank you so much for your reply. It has given me the confidence to continue trying things I haven’t necessarily seen in instructions or online. That there may one’s own ways to overcome difficulties.

Just to add, I am a complete amateur, only learning from the instruction manuals and you-tubers such as yourself. Thank you again for your knowledge and help via your you-tube videos.

Yes, and I thought that I mentioned it in the first video about Stitch Composer, sorry that I must not have. The early versions of Stitch Composer have the bowed grid. Janome designer’s said it was supposed to mimic the curve of the F and F2 decorative Stitch feet, crazy as that may sound. I remember well that it takes some getting used to when you use the program! Just try to pretend that those vertical lines are straight, not curved!

It may even help to turn the grid off in the view so the curves don’t bother you!

You need to select which hoop you’re going to use. Upper left corner of the toolbars.

You are welcome! Most of the videos are made to answer questions that I get from my local students, but glad they help others as well!

I’m not familiar with the M7 machine and all it has, but I do believe that a Stitch Composer is available for it too

Thank you for your response & questions. It's unfortunate that Hatch 2 only offers a choice of a 3 position hoop. I had never noticed that before. In v3 it offers among other shapes; 2 Position, 2 Position Rotating, 3 Position. But in my old MBX v5 which is very similar to Hatch 2 it also only has an option for a 3 Position and a Sliding Hoop. If you are planning to use a rotating hoop frequently it may be worth your time to invest in the Hatch 3 upgrade! So, I have a few questions for you! First, is regarding the software & your computer. I don't know why you think Hatch 3 has many problems but in my experience it doesn't, and it has many improvements. Your computer needs to have at least 16gb of ram to run the program well, but I suspect it could possibly even run with less if you shut down all other programs while using Hatch 3. 2) Are you pretty familiar with using Hatch? If so, you can probably trick your machine so that you can use the Durkee hoop. To do that first I would ask you to select a Janome brand machine (9700, 350e etc) and find the Gigahoop which is a rotating hoop. (Or other brand that has a Rotating hoop in the menu, there are several, in fact one might even be the right size as your Durkee hoop). Play with inserting designs into the embroidery field and then export them so that you can see how the program deals with a rotating hoop Then based on your Durkee hoop, you would figure out what the overlap area is, based on the hoop requirements. Create a hoop that is that size. Not the full size. When you create your design/layout, position the designs so that they are completely contained in each side of that area. Remember everything you want in #1 must be first in the sequence, and everything in #2 comes after. For rotation # 2 you would export the design upside down. I hope that this makes sense! Because it's opposite of how a brain thinks!

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing Thank you SO much for your quick reply! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this. I kept searching and finally realized that the rotating hoop option IS in fact a new offering in the version 3. I have a Babylock Alliance, and the embroidery field is 8x8. That is the only drawback I have found with this machine. I absolutely love it, and it doesn't bother me to change thread colors. But the small field is very limiting. So when I saw the Durkee hoop, the 8x14 space seemed like a perfect solution. I'm going to take your suggestion and play around with Hatch 2, and see if I can get it to work. If it looks promising, I will order the hoop. If not, I may just have to upgrade to 3. Hopefully the version has been out long enough that most of the initial bugs have been fixed. My computer won't run Windows 11, so I'll have to check and see if that's an issue. Either way, $200 for hoop and $200 for upgrade seems like alot. That being said, I can spend that on 2 Mighty Hoops and still be limited to 8x8 haha! And it's still way cheaper than upgrading to the $12k Array.... See what I did there? It's amazing how proficient we are at justifying embroidery equipment prices! 😄😄😄 Thanks again and I look forward to more of your videos....

@@pittysmom you don’t need Windows 11 to run Hatch 3. Don’t forget to check out all the machines brands and the hoops for them that are built in to Hatch, it would be great if there’s already a hoop you can use!

I'm very happy to help and so glad that you found the explanation helpful!

You’re welcome!

Glad you got something from it!

So glad I was able to clarify for you!

You’re welcome, hopefully you now have a good understanding of it!

Glad you were helped by my video! Welcome to the Janome embroidery family!

The 12000 and 15000 machines are combo Sewing and embroidery machines, the 9450 is sewing only. The 12000 machine is older than the 15000 and is no longer being manufactured. If you could get your hands on a used one it’s very similar to the 15. Main differences are the screen size and screen clarity, amount of stitches, and it doesn’t have WiFi capabilities and the IPad apps that work with the 15.

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing I am just interested in a sewing only machine. The brochure for the 9450 says it has stitch composer software. Does it have the curved screen like the 12000 or the straight grid screen? Thanks.

@@veronicamorrison193 I haven’t taught the class to multiple machines in a long time, so I hope I’m right! I’m almost 100% certain that the 9450 has the straight grid. The only one with the curve grid was the 12000 machine which was the first machine with a Stitch Composer.

Thanks for the supportive comments! I’m trying to help a fellow embroiderer who’s trying to figure out how to use a Babylock multi positioning hoop. Kind of a case of the blind leading the blind! Got it sorted out now and mostly based on my Janome Gigahoop experience too!

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing I've only used Janome embroidery machines so would have been the same boat.

@@AW-pz3qc I worked in a Janome dealership for a long time, so very familiar with the machines you mention. And then there was the 11k that had the MA (Macro Hoop) that was a 2 position not rotating hoop! It got good results too. You're right about "those were the days"! btw, did you convert all your SEW format files to JEF, are you still a Janome user?

@@faviolamartinezsewdigitizing I leap-frogged the 11K, not for any particular reason other than being really happy with a 10001 and 9500. While I've still got heaps of .sew files I only convert as required. Yes, still a Janome user (since 80's), in fact recently upgraded from 9450 and 500E to 15000 V3.0 as space is limited, this made more sense as it gives a more workable area around the machines. Of course, there are overlocker/CS/etc that need their space too!

Oh yes, I am still a Janome lady! Are you? I have converted some SEW files to JEF but typically only convert if/when I plan to use them. I have discovered that digitized designs are generally much improved over some of the older ones, do you agree?

Glad to have helped!

No, unfortunately this little program doesn't print a color stop design list. Janome used to sell a little program "Customizer" that did that, but when they began to really promote the digitizing programs (Digitizing Jr. Digitizer Pro, MBX, Artistic, etc) they also began to include these little programs as part of the embroidery machine purchase at no cost. In doing so they stripped some of the useful features in hopes that users would purchase digitizing software. (I've been told this by Janome tech support.)

Judy, I appreciate your question and hope to clarify a little more. You can't transfer the entire folder and its contents in one step. You have to have a folder created in the machine memory and then open to put files into. Maybe I wasn't entirely clear the point of this video is that in a situation like mine I had to have the A-board replaced on the machine. That meant that if I wanted to keep my stitch files for the future I had to remove them from the machine before the work was done. When I was getting ready for the work to be done on my machine a few weeks ago, I assumed that I would be able to just copy the folders onto a usb and that would be it. That's when I discovered that the only way to get the folders off the machine and into my PC was to use the Horizon Link process. Yes, there are various ways that we can save files that are on our machine into our PC; individually saving them onto a usb, or using the direct connect cable with Horizon Link or the WiFi being the most common ways. But we can't move the folders that we've created in the machine without using Horizon Link. (At least I haven't figured out a way to do so!) Back to your question, as I was trying to do this process I can only say the answer is no. You have to have a folder on both the computer and the machine sides created & open and then move/copy the files into it. During the transferring process, we can create folders through Horizon Link as well as directly on the machine. When we are copying the contents of the machine folders over to the PC we have to create the folders on the PC first, then move the individual files into those opened folders. Thanks for the question, and I would like for you to try out the process (Just for fun!) and see what results you get, if you find a way to copy the entire folder & it's contents in one step I'd like to learn how, I wasn't able to!