Bernina Designer Plus V 8.1

Color PhotoStitch
- Combine two creative passions: photography and embroidery
- Take a picture and turn it into an incredible embroidery design
- With automatic digitizing your picture is transferred into an easy-to-stitch-out embroidery design - with one click
3D Globe Effect
- Create an incredible spherical look with the 3D Globe Effect
- Turn your flat embroidery into a 3D design only by visual illusion
Couching
- Create special embroidered effects with yarns, cords, wool etc. in combination with classic stitching
- These sculptured threads stand out on your design for stunning effects and textures
Integrated Design Library
- Load all your embroidery designs into the library with a click of a button
- Improved and more powerful search engine
- Quicker access to all designs and enhanced design management
- Easy to browse, group and search for embroidery designs
Advanced CutWork: Appliqué included
- Advanced CutWork function for eyelet embroidery and appliqué
- Gives your cut-outs outstanding results
Positioning
- Use hoop template and basting stitch markers for exact positioning
- Set the design worksheet and add the template to your preview
- Move and rotate the design within the hoop for a perfect embroidery placement
- Use the advanced print preview options
Multi-Hooping
- Automatically places hoops to cover the entire embroidery design, fitting as many objects as possible into each hoop position
- Preview hooping sequence
- Functions to easily embroider big designs
- Save as complete design or as separate multi-hooping embroidery machine files
Color Management
- Color chart positions are numbered for easy reference
- Color Wheel features multiple options
- Chosen colors are tagged with a blue marker
- Hide or show unused colors in the chart
- Easy to pick a color and fill separate sections
- Default colors in palette (56 + 3 appliqué)
- Horizontal or vertical layout
User-Friendly Interface and Improved Features
- Intuitive and easy to manage menu
- Show tool names and enlarge icons for a perfect view
- Design tabs to toggle between multiple designs
Automated Quilt Block Layout
- Automatic quilt background stitching used to create ‘echo’ quilting designs, like scroll clipped or stipple filled quilt blocks
- Quilt block sizing and positioning aids
Simple Software Installation
- USB stick for installation and product key for software activation – No more dongles!
- Installation file with all software components included
- Only DesignerPlus is available as Update, Upgrade or Full Version. EditorPlus is discontinued
- Compatible with Windows® 8 – 10
Knife
- Use the knife tool to cut single outlines or closed objects into separate objects.
- For example divide lettering into separate objects and apply different fills to create a unique font.
- Or cut single or groups of objects to create gaps and overlaps.

Bernina Designer Plus V 8.1

Color PhotoStitch

3D Globe Effect

Couching

Integrated Design Library

Advanced CutWork: Appliqué included

Positioning

Multi-Hooping

Color Management

User-Friendly Interface and Improved Features

Automated Quilt Block Layout

Simple Software Installation

Knife

Further features of BERNINA Embroidery Software