Creative DRAWings® Technical Information

Creative DRAWings XII is quite a powerful software! It uses high end technology in order to provide you best quality in embroidery! It includes a 3D rendering engine that creates actual previews of the embroidery designs. This is a revolutionary technology in embroidery software that helps the user work faster and more efficiently while editing embroidery designs in near reality preview.

Minimum system requirements

  CPU: Intel Core i3/i5/i7/i9 or AMD Athlon X4, A10-Series, FX series, Ryzen 3/5/7/9,
Apple's M1 and M2
  RAM: 6 GB of RAM
  Hard disk: 1,5 GB of free uncompressed space
  Graphics card: 3D DirectX 11 accelerator with at least 1 GB dedicated RAM, 32-bit color (Windows only)
  Monitor Resolution: 1366 x 768 32bpp
  O/S: Windows 10 or 11 with the latest Service Packs,
MacOS latest and previous version
  Ports: Available USB port for the USB Installation (where applicable).
  Internet connection: Required

Artwork files you can import

Vector Formats

  • Corel Presentation Exchange (.CMX)
  • Encapsulated Postscript (.EPS)
  • Enhanced windows metafile (.EMF)
  • Scalable vector graphics (.SVG)
  • Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
  • AutoCAD (*.DXF)
  • Windows metafile (*.WMF)
  • HP GL file (.PLT)

Bitmap Formats

  • Bitmap files (.BMP, .DIB, RLE)
  • Jpeg files (.JPG, .JPEG, .JPE, .JFIF)
  • Gif files (.GIF)
  • Windows metafile (.WMF)
  • Tif file (.TIF, .TIFF)
  • Png file (.PNG)
  • Icon file (.ICO)

Compatible Embroidery Files

When you are ready to embroider, quilt or print your finished file, Save or Export in the following formats.

Save Your Designs

  • Wings Systems (.NGS)
  • DRAWings (.Draw)
  • Tajima (.DST, .DSZ, .DSB)
  • Tajima TBF (.tbf)
  • SWF (.SST)
  • Happy (.TAP)
  • Melco expanded (.EXP)
  • Juki (.M3)
  • Toyota (.10O)
  • Mitshubishi HD
  • SEF xp (.sef)
  • ZSK TC
  • Barudan FDR
  • Brother/Baby Lock/Bernina (.PEC .PES)
  • Husqvarna (.HUS)
  • Husqvarna Viking (.VIP, .VP3)
  • Viking Designer 1 (.SHV)
  • Janome (.JEF, .SEW,.JEF+)
  • Pfaff (.KSM, .PCS, .PSM )
  • Singer (.XXX)
  • QuiltCAD (.HQF)
  • PC Quilter (.TXT)
  • Statler Stitcher (.QLI)
  • Quilt data (.qdata)
  • .DXF
  • .EMF
  • .WMF
  • HP GL file (.PLT)