BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

DesignerPlus Upgrade

  • Upgrade from V9 Creator to DesignerPlus
  • Easy installation and WiFi functionality
  • Manual and auto-digitzing
  • Over 100 lettering & monogramming fonts
  • Keyboard design collection for self-made fonts

Design your dreams with the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

Digitize your handwriting

  • And expand your lettering capability
  • Type alphabet designs on screen
  • Five additional Keyboard Design Collection fonts

Thanks to the new Keyboard Design Collection, you can expand your lettering capabilities limitlessly. With this versatile new feature, you can map existing alphabet designs to the keyboard, so you can type them directly on screen. No more combining designs one by one! You can even digitize your handwriting or your own alphabets from scratch! Furthermore, five additional Keyboard Design Collection fonts are included. This new feature requires the BERNINA WiFi Device, which is offered as an optional accessory.

Customize anything you want

Customize anything you want

  • Alter embroidery designs limitlessly
  • Special fill effects, change colors, etc.
  • New branching and Weld tool

Alter an embroidery design according to your desires and without limits. The Full Editing feature offers the new Branching and the Weld tool. With the Branching tool you don’t have to think about the most efficient stitching sequence and connectors as this function does it for you. Digitizers often want to combine or weld objects into a single object which is easy with the new Weld tool.

One-of-a-kind appliqués

One-of-a-kind appliqués

  • With just one click
  • Convert any shape
  • Convert any closed shape

Enjoy the extended tools to create appliqué and convert any shape into an appliqué design with just one click. Even creating appliqué with holes inside is possible with ease. Want to cut the fabric with the CutWork tool or a cutting machine?
No problem as you can save an extra cutting file directly from the embroidery canvas.

Easy positioning

Easy positioning

  • Move and rotate the design
  • For a perfect embroidery placement
  • Advanced preview options

The positioning feature makes it easy to place designs where you want them. Just set the design worksheet and add a template to your preview, then move and rotate the design within the hoop and use the advanced print preview options. Use the hoop template and basting stitch markers for the exact positioning.

Your favorite image as embroidery design

Your favorite image as embroidery design

  • Updated auto-digitizing
  • Enhanced full digitizing
  • Few clicks, ready to stitch!

Take artwork and turn it into an embroidery design – all done by using the powerful, updated Auto-Digitizing and Full Digitizing tools. In just a few clicks your artwork is ready to stitch. With Full Digitizing you can create your embroidery design from a sketch and digitize it manually. This allows even more flexibility right from the beginning.

Send your design to the machine with a single click

  • Thanks to the new WiFi connector
  • Wireless transfer of designs
  • So easy and convenient

Thanks to WiFi functionality, you can transmit your embroidery designs to the embroidery machine. Whenever you are ready to embroider your design, start the process with just one click. Either to a BERNINA embroidery machine with integrated WiFi functionality or, with the help of the optional BERNINA WiFi Device, to almost any embroidery machine with a USB port.

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Create your unique graphic designs

Create your unique graphic designs

  • With the newest version of CorelDraw
  • Choose from many designs
  • Afterwards. send it to the WiFi connector

If you wish to start with a new graphic, simply open the newest version of the graphic program CorelDraw SE – and get your own drawings in a breeze. In both levels many new graphics have been added that you can choose from. Once the design is open use the new features to have fun creating, editing and designing your personally made embroidery design to prepare for sending it via WiFi connection to your embroidery machine.

Choose from many built-in font designs

Choose from many built-in font designs

  • Over 100 different fonts
  • Suggested size is already included
  • Add even own fonts

With the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 you will get over 100 fonts – with some modern handwritten style fonts included. To ensure the best quality, the recommended size for each font is displayed in the dialog box. And there are even more improvements: The font preview size is now changeable from small to large and the suggested size is already included. The font selection window shows recently used fonts at the bottom for more ease of use.

Manage your designs in the design library

Manage your designs in the design library

  • Browse through various designs
  • Load your designs into the library
  • From library to WiFi Device/WiFi-capable machine in one click

This powerful integrated design library ensures quick access to all designs and provides enhanced design management. It makes it easy to browse, group and search for designs or get inspired. From here you can also directly send your designs to the WiFi-enabled embroidery machine or to the BERNINA WiFi Device (must be purchased separately) for stitch-out.

Color management

Color management

  • Pick your color in the Color wheel
  • Huge color palette (56 + 3 appliqué)
  • Fill objects as you wish

Palette positions are numbered for easy reference within the Color Management system and the color wheel features a range of color options. It has never been easier to pick the right color and fill objects with the help of the numerous colors within the palette (56 + 3 appliqué). The chosen colors are tagged with a blue marker.

Multi-Hooping

Multi-Hooping

  • For very large designs
  • Cover the entire design
  • Preview hooping sequences

Creating large designs is simple using the Multi-Hooping feature which automatically places more than one hoop when necessary. It places hoops to cover the entire design, fitting as many objects as possible into each hoop position. You can preview all hooping sequences and save it as a complete design or as separate multi-hooping machine files.

Embroidering on quilts

Embroidering on quilts

  • Create echo quilting designs
  • Get help with the block sizing and positioning
  • Easy embroidery on quilts

Embroidering on quilts is also easy with the Automated Quilt block layout feature. The automatic quilt background stitching is used to create “echo” quilting designs, like scroll-clipped or stipple-filled quilt blocks. The best part: you will even receive quilt block sizing and positioning aids.

3D Embroidery

  • Embroider your favorite photo
  • 3D effects for embroidered letters
  • Enhanced CutWork function

The Color Photo Stitch and Automatic Digitizing features turn your favorite photo into a detailed embroidery design in just a few steps. With Puffy Lettering add outstanding 3D effects to embroidered letters and with the enhanced CutWork function create beautiful Eyelet Embroidery and Appliqué. The Globe Effect turns flat embroidery into a 3D design and with Couching create stunning 3D effects in combination with wool.

Clear interface and improved features

Clear interface and improved features

  • Intuitive and easy to manage
  • Small or large icons for a perfect view
  • Open more than one design at a time

All the incredible software features are easy to use and navigate with the user-friendly interface. The menu is just intuitive and easy to manage. You have the choice between small or large icons for a perfect view and the tool names and functions can be displayed if desired. Open more than one design at a time and easily switch between designs.

Neat and smart home screen

Neat and smart home screen

  • With helpful tutorials
  • Direct access to the help section
  • Browse through new projects

Upon opening BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 you will notice an informative and interactive home screen that offers links to tutorials, new projects and resources.

Easy installation

Easy installation

  • Improved installation process
  • Easy and flexible!
  • Use software on multiple computers

Installing BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 has never been easier or more flexible thanks to the improved installation process. In a snap, the software is installed on your computer. Plus, you can use the software on multiple computers just by signing in and out.

Try it now for 30 days at no cost

The proof of the pudding is in the eating: try it for yourself and discover the features of the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9. Download your fully functional trial version and digitize new creative designs. The software is compatible with all BERNINA embroidery machines.

"Finally I can create my most memorable designs."Sue O'Very, Embroidery and garment designer

Sue O'Very is not only a creative person but also a real sewing and embroidery enthusiast from Florida, USA. As a costume and fashion designer she traveled the globe before she started running her own business in 2010 under the label "Sookie Sews". Sue has been digitizing for over 25 years, designing creative embroidery embellishments. Now with the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9, she has found the software that matches her imagination.

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Features & Functions

  • Overview
  • Lettering
  • View Designs
  • Design Optimizing
  • Artwork Canvas Designing
  • Digitizing
  • Design Handling
  • Edit and Customize
  • Stitch Types, Effects and 3D Techniques
  • General Features
BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 DesignerPlus – Upgrade

Note:
Not all models and accessories are available in all countries. We reserve the right to make changes in both features and design.

Keyboard Design Collection (create own fonts)
Online help manual
CorelDRAW® included (SE 2021)
Easy sign in/out, for use on different computers
Built-in designs 930
Branching tool
Digitize Appliqué with / without holes
WiFi connection

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Note:
Not all models and accessories are available in all countries. We reserve the right to make changes in both features and design.

Built-in embroidery fonts 104
Built-in Keyboard Design Collection fonts
Keyboard Design Collection (create own fonts)
3D fonts (Puffy Lettering)
True type and open type fonts
Easy font selection by type or group
Satin, step or fancy fills for lettering

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Single letter editing (resize, reshape, skew, colors)
Baseline Options / Lettering Shapes 6
Auto Kerning for True Type Fonts
Size recommendation in Object Properties
Recently used fonts displayed in the font list
Design templates for monograms with 1 to 3 letters
Realistic preview of designs
Hoop selection with realistic display
Hoops filtered by machine type
Create your own hoop sizes
Show/hide grid
Show Quilt Block
Color Palette
Thread matching across thread brands
Stitch Player

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Toggle between inches & metric measurements
Show icons with or without tool names, large or small
Thread Charts (new charts added/updated)
Hoop templates
Rulers and guides
Background and Display Colors
Fabric display
Style preview
View by colour
Apply custom or auto fabrics
Always trim / Never trim
Set Trim Distance
Underlay options / Multiple underlay
Start / End point positions
Re-sequencing objects or colors

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Auto and manual density
Easily remove overlaps
Branching tool
Travel on edge
Pull compensation
Apply closest join
Artwork included 497
Multiple graphic formats supported
Quick Trace (centerline and outline)
ART strokes

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Connect Content (free and purchasable designs)
Pointilizer
Picture effects
Manual Digitizing tools
Auto-digitizing tools
Instant Auto Digitizing
Magic Wand tools
PhotoSnap

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Color PhotoStitch
Freehand embroidery tools
Shape tools (ellipse, rectangle)
Automatic outlines and borders
Direct machine connection with ADX
Data Transfer via USB
WiFi connection

WiFi connection

The BERNINA WiFi Connector allows you to wirelessly manage and transfer embroidery designs from the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 on your PC to most embroidery machines with a USB socket. The BERNINA connector software is installed together with your BERNINA Embroidery Software 9 which is purchased separately. The WiFi Connector is the software component, whereas the WiFi-Device is the hardware component.
Open and save designs in multiple formats

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Save design as image
Separate folder for designs, machine and cutting files
Print worksheet, includes machine run time estimate
Edit designs, objects and individual stitches
Easy to switch between Fill, Outline and Stitch Types
Combine designs and lettering objects
Break Apart (including lettering)
Rotate and skew
Reshape objects and outlines
Mirror Merge tools

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Wreath and Kaleidoscope tools
Array & Reflec
Add Holes/Fill Holes
Add Multiple Stitch Angles
Knife tool
Change stitch types
Rescale Designs
Basic fills
Special fills
Basic outlines
Special outlines
Create pattern fill
Design buttonholes (single or multiple)
Motif patterns from BERNINA machines
Add outlines & offsets effects
Carving effect
Color Blending
Pattern Stamp
Gradient Fill effect
Textured Edge effect
Wave effect
Star Stitch effect

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Quilt Backgrounds, 5 types
Morphing effect
Elastic Fancy Fill effect
3D Globe effect
Trapunto
PunchWork (optional kit with foot #45 needed)
Couching
CutWork
3D StumpWork
Digitize Appliqué with / without holes
Combine Appliqué
Convert to Appliqué
Export cutting-files (svg or exp)
Alternating pattern fill
Windows®10/11 (64-bit Edition), with latest Updates
Mac with Boot Camp and Windows® 10 or later
Home Screen
Online help manual
Automatic updates
CorelDRAW® included (SE 2021)
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CorelDRAW® included (SE 2021)

With its content-rich environment and professional graphic design, photo-editing and website design software, you have everything you need to express your style and creativity with endless possibilities. CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite provides full vector and bitmap graphics software for multi-decoration, printing, cutting and engraving designs. Run CorelDRAW fully integrated with BERNINA V9, or standalone.
BERNINA Cross Stitch Program
Easy sign in/out, for use on different computers
Embroidery Library with search capability

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Built-in designs 930
Multi-Hooping, automatic or manual
BERNINA Quilter Program
Link to graphics programs
Interactive on-screen manual
Support and Service
Product key for software activation
Free 30-Day Trial Version (w/o Corel)

Tutorials

  • 4:12

    Configuring the BERNINA WiFi Device

    Send your designs wirelessly from your PC to your embroidery machine with the new BERNINA Wifi Device. The device needs to be configured on the PC before using it for the first time.

  • 2:17

    Using the BERNINA WiFi Device on multiple PCs

    It is possible to send designs from multiple PCs to the WiFi Device or use several devices if you have more than one embroidery machines.

  • 6:53

    How to embroider letters using the Keyboard Design Collection in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    See how easy it is to expand your lettering capabilities limitlessly. With the new Keyboard Design Collection feature you can create your own fonts from scratch or map existing alphabet designs to the keyboard.

  • 8:48

    How to create Appliqué in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    Creating appliqué designs is very easy. With a new tool you can now convert any shape into an appliqué design with just one click or create appliqué with holes inside with ease.

  • 9:56

    How to use the CutWork feature in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    The CutWork feature has now more tools included to simplify the digitizing process. You can now easily add CutWork borders to existing designs or convert any shapes into CutWork with just one click.

  • 10:20

    How to create a StumpWork design in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    Turn a flat embroidery design into a three-dimensional masterpiece. The petals of this flower design are digitized as StumpWork pieces and stitched separately to create this wonderful project.

  • 2:56

    How to use the Branching & Weld tool in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    New Editing features are added to V9. Use the new Branching tool to optimize the stitch sequence and minimize jump stitches. With the Weld tool you can easily merge objects into a single object.

  • 3:25

    Changes in transfering files in BERNINA Embroidery Software

    This video tutorial shows the changes in transfering files and explains how devices are selected.

  • Configuring the BERNINA WiFi Device

    Configuring the BERNINA WiFi Device

    4:12
  • Using the BERNINA WiFi Device on multiple PCs

    Using the BERNINA WiFi Device on multiple PCs

    2:17
  • How to embroider letters using the Keyboard Design Collection in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    How to embroider letters using the Keyboard Design Collection in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    6:53
  • How to create Appliqué in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    How to create Appliqué in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    8:48
  • How to use the CutWork feature in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    How to use the CutWork feature in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    9:56
  • How to create a StumpWork design in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    How to create a StumpWork design in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    10:20
  • How to use the Branching & Weld tool in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    How to use the Branching & Weld tool in BERNINA Embroidery Software 9

    2:56
  • Changes in transfering files in BERNINA Embroidery Software

    Changes in transfering files in BERNINA Embroidery Software

    3:25

Support

Help and Support page V9

Learn more about the software and its possibilities by browsing through the help and support page with its variety of content:

  • Download manuals & useful documents
  • Watch many tutorial videos
  • Read about the different functions
  • Search and filter for key words
  • And much more
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Frequently Asked Questions

Setup Wizard does not display your WiFi network

During WiFi Device setup your WiFi network is not visible.

Possible solutions:
  1. Make sure the selected WiFi connection is 2.4 GHz. See also the 'How To check frequency EN.pdf' document.
  2. Close the setup wizard, wait a few seconds, restart the setup wizard.
  3. Try moving the Device somewhere else in range of the network.
Even if your computer can see the WiFi network, the device may not be able to because the WiFi module doesn t have the same range.


 

Designs are not found on the machine

After WiFi Device setup:
    -The power LED is solid green
    -The WiFi LED is solid blue
    -The Devic state indicator LED is solid green

Try the different settings available in the BERNINA WiFi Connector - Advanced Settings.
We recommend to test one after the other.
Keep the WiFi Device connected to the machine to test the different settings.
The 'Serial interface' settings needs to be activated again if for some reason you want to connect the WiFi Device to a computer. For example to setup on a different computer.
Be ware that changing memory size or emulation mode in the advanced settings will delete all designs saved on the device.
 

 

Cannot send designs to the WiFi Device

After WiFi Device setup:
    - The power LED is solid green
    - The WiFi LED is blinking blue (fast)
    - Designs cannot be sent to the WiFi Device

Possible solution:

Start the BERNINA WiFi Connector on one PC in the same network as the WiFi Device.
See the document 'How to check same network.pdf'.


   

WiFi Device will not connect

After WiFi Device Setup:
    -The power LED is solid green
    -The WiFi LED is blinking blue
    -The state indicator is not lit

Possible solutions:
1. Make sure you are using the correct password for your Router or Access Point.
See also How To find WiFi password EN.pdf'. With the WiFi Device plugged to your computer and WiFi LED blinking, enter the password again under 'Configure selected - WiFi Settings'. Use the 'Show password' toggle to make sure it is entered correctly.
    
2. Do a factory reset of your WiFi Device.
Keep the reset button pressed until the state indicator turns white. See also Reset the device.
    
 3. Make sure your Router and/or Access Point allow communication between devices. Please refer to the reference manual of your Router and/or Access Point for this.

Try it now for 30 days at no cost

The proof of the pudding is in the eating: try it for yourself and discover the features of the BERNINA Embroidery Software 9. Download your fully functional trial version and digitize new creative designs. The software is compatible with all BERNINA embroidery machines.