I just purchased a B 165 with emb. ( I live in NM and bought it inPA) How do I get designs I already have into the machine? What format does it use? I have Husq. Viking 3D Pro. Do not have a resder-writer/card. Thanks.

You can start with taking pictures of your designs and posting them on sites like letgo, OfferUp, as well as eBay, Amazon and social media sites would be a great start. Hope this helps, good luck

.Jef and .Dst will work on a Janome machine. You can buy designs per the hoop sizes for your machine. Buy, download, and transfer received file to a USB drive to transfer deign to machine.
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Embroidery Services
San Diego, CA

Your Designer 1 will read none of the file formats you listed. It uses .shv which is a special file type created just for the Designer 1. Some embroidery sellers offer this format, but most do not. You don't need the .shv if you have the 4D software. When you purchase designs, you can buy almost any format you want and your software will deal with it. Most Husqvarna Designer owners purchase designs in .vp3 or .pes format. Avoid .art designs.

You need to set up your software using the Configure module. You can access this either by locating your 4D software folder on your hard drive - in that folder there should be an .exe called Configure - or use a link in your normal 4D screen once you open the program. Look for the icon along the top that looks like a screwdriver and pliers (or something like that). In Configure use the Send 1 tab to tell your software that you have a floppy disk Designer 1.

When you want to load designs for your sewing machine, open 4D Disk Manager (it will be in the drop-down Accessories box using the arrow beside the Configure button). You need to have the correctly formatted floppy disk in your computer's floppy disk drive. If you don't have one, you can format a blank one from within the Disk Manager module. Most importantly if you are using a floppy that already has been used in your Designer 1, you need to use the Read Disk icon along the top. The designs already on your floppy are read into the program. You can then add whatever designs you want by using the Open (icon showing an open manilla folder) or View (looks like a blue camera) buttons. Then you choose the Write Disk button to put not only your newly added designs on the floppy disk, but to also put back the ones that were already on it. Click "Yes" when asked if you want to erase designs already on the disk. It is quite safe provided you read the disk into Disk Manager first, as described above.

On the hard drive of your PC create a folder and name it Emb Downloads or something similar that you will be able to find.

Select the download and save to the folder. These design files will most likely be zipped. A zipped file cannot be read. Open or extract all files.

If the download is not in the format you need, you can convert to the format needed by using Pulse Ambassador (this is a free software download). Download, then open the design you want to convert and then select save as and select the required format.

To get the designs to the embroidery machine, you need a reader/writer unit and rewritable memory card in the format for this machine.

You can find this software at Allbrands.com for a price less that what dealers usually charge.

Move the designs to the emb folder

The first thing you need to do is put your blank USB in your Deco and turn the Deco on. When you do that, the Deco will create a EMB file on your USB stick. Then you need to download EXP design files and put them in that EMB folder.

more than likely its the main pc board but if you had another emb unit you could put that on your machine and if it works fine then its the board inside the emb unit

Put the cd into your computer drive and open it. Put your usb stick into one of the ports and open it as well. You must have the emb folder on the usb stick to put the designs into. If they are not there already- turn off your sewing machine and put the stick in. Turn on the machine and go to settings, then embroidery. Find the one that says Format. and touch that one and then let it do it's thing.

Once you have the folders on the usb stick- you can highlight the design name you want from the list (cd file) and drag it to the folder on the usb stick. Alternatively... right click on the design you want to move. Select copy. Open the folder on the usb stick and right click inside it. Select Paste. The design should appear in the folder for the usb and then you can take it out of your computer... put it into the machine and find the design.

If I can help with anything else... lmk.
Tracy in Nashville, TN

The memory card cannot be over 128 mb. Also the files need to be .jef format and stored in an emb folder on the card. I hope this helps.

I too have just purchased a new machine and had same problem.  You have to put the card in your sewing machine first to format it.  My machine is a Janome 10001 but think it is the same concept.  When I save a design from the internet to the card I have to drag the design into one of the Emb folders which will show up on your card after it is formatted.  Then after saving the design I can go back to the Emb folder that I saved it in and it will show up on the machine.  Hope this helps.