Digital Embroidery with PEmbroider

PEmbroider is an open-source library for embroidery design, maintained by CMU's Studio for Creative Enquiry. It is designed for use with Processing, particularly the Processing Drawing API which can be used to generate embroidery designs computationally. It is well-documented online; this page

Setup

Setup instructions are here. When running an example sketch, if you would like to use the design, make sure that it exports in the .PES file format, as this is the form used by the machine.

In the PEmbroider example files, the file format is always declared in the variable outputFilePath, normally in the setup() section of the code. So, to change this (e.g. in the example file PEmbroider_shape_hatching_experimental), from:

    ...
    E = new PEmbroiderGraphics(this, width, height);
    String outputFilePath = sketchPath("PEmbroider_shapes_hatching_experimental.vp3");
    ...

to:

    ...
    E = new PEmbroiderGraphics(this, width, height);
    String outputFilePath = sketchPath("PEmbroider_shapes_hatching_experimental.pes");
    ...

If you create a file in the wrong format, you can always re-run the code, but it is also possible to convert between different embroidery file formats online here.

Using PEmbroider

In my exper