Note regarding PES v7

PES is the only embroidery file format that changes each time a substantial new version of the software is delivered. The different versions are “backwards compatible,” meaning an embroidery machine that can read PES v.9 files can also read earlier files, like PES v.7. However, the opposite is not true — if your machine is set to read PES v.7, it will not recognize PES v.9 files. 

We have found that a number of our customers have embroidery machines and software that is set to work with PES v.7 files. You can update the firmware on your embroidery machine and you can update your software so that it works with the latest version of the file format (currently PES v.10), and we strongly recommend that you do so. 

But until you get a moment to do that, we are providing a set of PES files that are saved to PES v.7. The file naming convention matches what is documented in the Design Overview documentation, except that we have added the number “7” to the end of the file name.