Artista 180 driner

Unfortunately, the Bernina Artista 180 has no firmware. The available support is here: https://www.bernina.com/en-US/Support-US/Machines/BERNINA-artista/BERNINA-artista-180 . Other Bernina sewing machines have firmware available on their respective support sites.

On other brands of embroidery sewing machines, the embroidery modules from different machines are not compatible with other generation embroidery machines. This may be true with the Bernina machines, as well, since the brand names are often made by the same company.

I wish that I had better news for you.

Cindy Wells
(I helped a neighbor who had two Viking embroidery machines fix the non-working embroidery unit by realizing she'd switched the modules. Then I labeled them modules to ensure that they stayed with their respective machines.)

Yes, The BERNINA Artista 180 and the BERNINA Artista 170 do in fact use the same Embroidery Module.

I'm not exactly sure what you need but I'll give you a web site where I believe you will have good results:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/bernina-software

Unfortunately, your dongle is like a Key that is made just for your machine. You could try contacting Bernina or the place where you bought the machine originally and ask if they can send you a replacement. I've afraid it will be very expensive though.

Good luck.

Calibrate the embroidery hoop


Note
The embroidery hoop can only be calibrated with the oval hoop.. You'll find the instructions for each machine in the relevant user manual.

I assume you need a dongle driver for V5 Embroidery Software ... is that right ? If so, let me have your e-mail address and I'll send you a copy, with the installation instructions.

If you bought the embroidery unit with the machine, I would try to take it back to the place of purchase & ask for a sewing tech to check the machine & unit for you.
I recently had a similar issue with my machine-took it to a local bernina agent & within a week, it was back in my sewing room, at no cost to me. I hope this helps you, & yes I have a 180 with the embroidery unit like you mentioned

I'm selling Bernina Artista instruction DVDs on Ebay, one is only for the embroidery part, which teaches very well how to do it. It is for the models 165, 170 and 180.

The machine should always be off when you attach the embroidery unit. Attaching it without it being turned off can damage the computer system of the machineor embroidery unit. It needs to be tested by a repairman.

If you doing an embroidery, it has to have something to do with the way the design was digitized. We have a BERNINA ARTISTA 180 and have never come across this problem. The embroidery machine only reads what is on the disk. Try putting your design through the computer.