Name: Hatch Embroidery Digitizer Version 4 by Wilcom
Brand: Wilcom
Price: 1374.57 AUD
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Description

Powerful New Digitizing Tools
& Smarter Workflows

Hatch Embroidery 4 is designed for embroiderers who want more creative flexibility, smoother workflows, and professional-quality results without sacrificing ease of use. Whether you are personalising gifts, creating designs for customers, digitising your own artwork, or running a small embroidery business from home, Hatch 4 provides a modern embroidery platform that grows with your skills. From beginners learning the basics through to experienced digitizers creating detailed custom designs, the software is built to make the entire embroidery process more intuitive and efficient.

This latest version focuses on improving the overall user experience with smarter editing tools, more precise design control, and streamlined production features that help reduce manual steps and improve stitch quality. Hatch 4 also expands creative possibilities with enhanced appliqué tools, improved design management, updated embroidery effects, and broader machine connectivity options, helping users move from idea to finished stitch-out faster than ever before. Combined with new fonts, motifs, and included design assets, Hatch Embroidery 4 offers a powerful yet approachable solution for hobbyists, makers, and home-based embroidery businesses alike.

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Next-level creative control

NEW Multi Blend

Create beautifully smooth colour transitions, gradients and shading effects with the new Multi Blend feature in Hatch Embroidery 4. Instead of relying on separate objects or manual layering techniques, Multi Blend allows you to create flowing colour changes within a single editable object. This opens up new creative possibilities for realistic embroidery, artistic fills, dimensional effects and modern embroidery styles, while still giving you full control over editing and adjustments later.

NEW Advanced Appliqué

The new Advanced Appliqué tools give embroiderers greater creative freedom by supporting open-object appliqué designs. This makes it easier to create more intricate shapes, decorative line work and modern appliqué styles that were previously difficult to achieve with traditional closed-object methods. Whether you are creating quilting projects, decorative garments or layered embroidery designs, Advanced Appliqué provides more flexibility and cleaner creative workflows.

NEW Continue Digitizing

Continue Digitizing helps streamline the embroidery design process by allowing you to extend existing objects without needing to start over. Instead of creating separate pieces or redrawing sections, you can continue building directly from your current object for smoother editing and faster digitizing. This feature is especially useful for complex designs, lettering, borders and decorative elements where maintaining flow and consistency is important.

NEW Rounded Rectangles

Design polished layouts, frames and logo elements more easily with the new Rounded Rectangles feature. Instead of manually adjusting corners or creating custom shapes from scratch, Hatch Embroidery 4 allows you to quickly generate clean rounded rectangle objects with a professional finish. This is ideal for badge designs, labels, monograms, logo backdrops and decorative embroidery layouts where softer corners create a more refined appearance.

NEW DXF File Support

Hatch Embroidery 4 now includes DXF file support, allowing you to import vector artwork directly into the software without needing CorelDRAW®. This makes it easier to work with artwork created in CAD programs, laser cutting software and other vector-based design applications. By supporting DXF files natively, the workflow between design creation and embroidery digitizing becomes faster, simpler and more accessible for users working across multiple creative platforms.

Smarter Stitch Control

NEW Stop Function

The new Stop Function gives you greater control during the embroidery process by allowing you to pause the machine exactly where needed within a design. This is especially useful for appliqué placement, quilting techniques, adding mixed-media elements, or incorporating speciality materials during stitching. Instead of manually monitoring the machine and trying to pause at the right moment, the Stop Function creates intentional stopping points directly within the design workflow for smoother, more accurate production.

IMPROVED Automatic Connectors & Trims

The improved Automatic Connectors & Trims feature helps create cleaner, more efficient stitch paths with less manual editing required. Hatch Embroidery 4 automatically manages travel stitches, trims and object connections more intelligently, helping reduce unnecessary thread cuts and minimise visible jump stitches. This not only improves the overall finish of your embroidery designs but can also help reduce machine running time and make designs easier to stitch out professionally.

Faster, More Intuitive Workflows

IMPROVED Grids, Guides & Snap

The enhanced Grids, Guides & Snap tools make aligning and positioning embroidery designs faster and more precise than ever. Improved snapping behaviour and clearer visual guides help users accurately place objects, lettering and design elements with less manual adjustment. Whether creating logos, monograms, quilting layouts or multi-piece embroidery designs, these upgraded alignment tools help improve workflow speed and design accuracy.

NEW Answers Docker

Hatch Embroidery 4 introduces Answers Docker, a built-in AI-powered assistant designed to provide instant embroidery guidance directly inside the software. Whether you need help understanding tools, troubleshooting a feature or learning a new technique, Answers Docker gives users fast access to helpful information without leaving their workspace. This makes learning easier for beginners while also helping experienced users work more efficiently with quicker access to support and guidance.

NEW Control Point Display

The new Control Point Display feature makes editing complex embroidery designs easier by providing clearer visibility of object nodes and shaping points. Users can now see and adjust design structures more accurately, helping simplify advanced editing tasks such as reshaping fills, refining outlines and adjusting curves. This added clarity gives greater control during digitizing and helps make detailed design editing more intuitive.

NEW Warning Controls

Warning Controls allow users to stay informed about potential design issues without unnecessary interruptions to their workflow. Hatch Embroidery 4 gives users more flexibility over how warnings and notifications are displayed, helping reduce distractions while still providing important information when needed. This creates a smoother and more customisable digitizing experience, especially during larger or more detailed projects.

IMPROVED Design Explorer

The improved Design Explorer offers a more intuitive and user-friendly way to manage embroidery objects and design elements within a project. With clearer organisation and easier navigation, users can quickly locate, select and edit individual components of a design. This helps simplify complex projects and improves overall workflow efficiency when working with layered embroidery designs, appliqué or detailed digitizing work.

IMPROVED Revert to Factory Settings

The improved Revert to Factory Settings feature makes it easier to quickly reset the Hatch Embroidery 4 workspace back to its default configuration. Whether troubleshooting unexpected behaviour, cleaning up customised settings or starting fresh after experimenting with layouts and tool configurations, users can restore the software to a clean working environment with minimal effort.

Better Stitch Quality & Visual Feedback

Enhanced Connector & Trim Display

The Enhanced Connector & Trim Display gives users a clearer visual preview of stitch paths, travel runs, and trims before sending a design to the embroidery machine. By making connector stitches easier to identify during the digitizing process, Hatch Embroidery 4 helps users better optimise stitch order, reduce unnecessary trims and create cleaner overall embroidery results. This improved visibility makes design planning faster and helps minimise surprises during stitch-out.

IMPROVED Display Colours

Hatch Embroidery 4 features improved display colours for better visibility and easier design editing across all embroidery elements. Enhanced colour contrast and clearer object differentiation help users more easily identify fills, outlines, stitch directions and overlapping elements while working on complex designs. This creates a more comfortable and efficient editing environment, especially during detailed digitizing sessions.

IMPROVED Gradient Fill Profiles

The improved Gradient Fill Profiles make it easier to create smooth shading, depth and artistic stitch effects within embroidery designs. With more intuitive controls and enhanced visual feedback, users can achieve softer transitions and more natural-looking embroidery textures without overly complicated editing. These upgrades help simplify advanced shading techniques while expanding creative possibilities for realistic and decorative embroidery styles.

Seamless Production & Output

NEW Wireless Connection for Brother Machines

Hatch Embroidery 4 now supports wireless design transfer for compatible Brother embroidery machines, allowing users to send designs via Wi-Fi without needing a USB drive. This creates a faster and more convenient workflow by simplifying the connection between software and machine. Designs can be transferred directly from the computer to the embroidery machine, helping reduce interruptions and making the embroidery process smoother and more efficient.

NEW Exports Docker

The new Exports Docker allows users to monitor embroidery file conversions and export progress in real time directly within Hatch Embroidery 4. Instead of waiting without feedback, users can now easily track background processing, completed exports and conversion statuses from a dedicated workspace panel. This helps improve workflow efficiency, particularly when exporting multiple designs or working with larger, more complex embroidery projects.

Appliqué Pattern Printing

The improved Appliqué Pattern Printing feature provides greater flexibility when preparing appliqué projects by allowing placement templates to be printed either mirrored or exactly as digitized. This makes fabric preparation and placement easier, especially for more detailed or layered appliqué designs. The enhanced printing options help improve accuracy during cutting and positioning while giving embroiderers more control over their appliqué workflow.

Hand Stitch

Wanting to create a unique stitch effect different from the perfect machine stitching you achieve every time? The Hand Stitch effect creates an organic hand embroidery effect by randomising the spacing, angle and length of the stitches. It can be applied to an entire design with just a single click so you can create embroidery with a more natural, vintage, homemade feel.

Reef PhotoStitch

The Reef Photo Stitch feature allows you to convert black and white or grayscale images to detailed, artistic digitized designs. It concentrates on the darker areas of the image, creating a unique artistic style reminiscent of a coral reef.

Colour PhotoStitch

Use the Colour PhotoStitch effect to create embroidery from photographs and other images. This improved feature produces variegated stitching using multiple thread colours allowing for more flexibility with colours and stitch setting adjustments. Create customised projects and gifts from personal photos!

Keyboard Design Collection

Embroidery character designs and lettering fonts are very popular for many hobbyists. After purchasing these designs from third-party suppliers, users want to be able to use them in their embroidery software by mapping them to keyboard characters. The Keyboard Design Collection feature in Hatch allows you to do this!

Pre-mapped keyboard design collections are also included under the lettering tab for immediate use.

Laydown Stitch

The Laydown Stitch feature will automatically create a light fill to flatten the nap of textured fabrics like terry toweling and fur. This is to prevent the stitches from getting lost in the nap of the fabric, so you can achieve clean, visible embroidery.

This tool also includes a stitch type with the option of one or two layers with adjustable stitching length, angles and spacing.

PhotoFlash

Achieve a vintage line printer look using PhotoFlash, which creates a one-colour Photo Stitch from varying spacing.

Freehand Digitizing

Using the freehand tools, create artistic effects. Draw directly on the screen, similar to free-motion embroidery work or hand embroidery.

‘Close Shape’ Capability

Sometimes, an object appears to be closed, but it was either created using the Open Shape tool or converted from a vector object that was open. In order to address this problem, Hatch Embroidery 3 includes two new commands, Close Shape with Straight Line and Close Shape with Curve Line. You can close any object with a straight line or curved line.

Center All Feature

Hatch Embroidery automatically centres your design in the hoop by default. With the new manual option, you can lock the hoop position which means it won't automatically centre while you are digitizing.

Multi-position Hoops

You can set multiple hoops, split the design into sewing fields and output the design to multiple files, each with just 1 click. Hoopings can be viewed before you finish to save time and get the perfect result. Digital placement markers can be added for perfect hoop positioning.

Hatch 3 now supports all known Brother and Babylock multi-position hoops, as well as the ability to split files into separate hoopings. Hoops include:

100mm x 172mm
130mm x 300mm
360mm x 360mm

Please note: VP3 files are not supported for some Husqvarna Viking hoops.

Fills & Motifs

Add beautiful textures and borders to your embroidery designs. With endless combinations, the creativity is in your hands.

Hatch V3 includes 4 new motif categories including a huge library of 281 fills and 148 motifs.

Monogramming

Hatch V3 includes 74 professionally designed monogram templates that ready to be stitched out, or you can create your own with the 236 ornaments and 80 borders also included.

The Urban Collection now includes 10 new monogram templates offering you more design options. All monogram templates have also been updated with the same background colour.

Digitized Fonts

With 10 new digitized fonts + 5 new japanese fonts, you have the freedom to create unique designs. These fonts were professionally created to deliver the best quality lettering - now with lettering improvements.

Plus, 10 new Tatami patterns and 6 quilt labels have also been added!

Sample & Alphabet Designs

Hatch V3 includes new sample and alphabet designs (2) that were created to be used with the new features. Choose from a wonderful library of designs that were created for features like laydown stitch, hand stitch, reef photostitch, colour photostitch and more. This includes standard designs, emoji designs with a variety of characters, objects & symbols, 25 vintage border designs, cross-stitch designs and others.

Sample Artwork

You'll find 55 new sample artwork image files that include PNG, vector (EPS) and CorelDRAW vector files (CDR). These new sample files cover a great selection of categories including baking, emojis, gardening, holidays and outlines and are great for mockups on items like shirts.

Machine Support

With improved support and enhancements for domestic machines, Hatch V3 can accommodate for many popular single-needle and multi-needle machines of all types and models.

Machine file improvements have also been made to support many popular machine file formats.

Hoop Management

You'll enjoy the hooping enhancements in Hatch V3 which provide better hoop management for use with your designs. With a hoop list tailored to your machine and model, you can easily find and select hoops compatible with your machine. Plus, you can also create and add custom hoops that are suitable for your machine.

Sequence Docker

The sequencing toolbox now combines colouring and selection in reshape mode. Sequence Docker provides an easy way to view colour blocks and individual objects in a design via the objects view and numbers, so you can rearrange them to establish the stitching order. This feature will reduce many common user errors and save hours of time.

In App Hits

Learning Hatch Embroidery can take some time. From within the software, the new Hints docker is a valuable learning resource. When the docker is open (the default), whenever a feature is selected, context-sensitive help appears. Each hint provides a short feature description as well as a link to a short video. Additionally it includes a link to the Hatch Academy and a reference to the relevant topic of the user handbook.

Manual Digitizing

The only limit to your designs is your imagination. With 8 powerful tools, endless creative stitch types and the freedom to personalise, you can create unique designs for your projects.

Auto-Digitize

Click-to-Stitch is like child’s play. Take existing artwork and create beautiful embroidery designs without the technical know-how. Hatch will even choose the best colours, shapes and sequence for you!

Get artistic with Redwork

Unlock an ethereal artistic embroidery style with the beautiful Redwork look. Available in multiple outline types, Hatch Embroidery will calculate the fastest and most efficient route to stitch out your designs.

Appliqué digitizing tools

A special new set of tools, designed specifically for appliqué designs, gives you more control. From simple to sophisticated, you can create exciting designs using one of the four cover stitches, or no cover stitch at all and create your own. Select from one colour of multiple colour stops, optimize the stitch order and easily convert a closed object to applique with one click. When you are finished, simply export to SVG for your cutting machine.

Elastic Embossed Fills and Outlines

Be more creative than ever before whilst continuing to achieve accurate and clean designs. These fills and outlines will turn with the shape of the objects.

Weld objects together

Joining two or more embroidery objects is very common and previously quite time consuming. The new Weld tool can do this in a single click, saving hours of digitizing time.

Create SVG cut files

Want to create amazing appliqué designs? Using precision cutting files is essential. Now you can export your appliqué or closed objects as SVG files in seconds.

Enhanced Offsets

Take Offset designs to the next level by selecting the type of corner. You can also choose to create Offsets in holes!

Mirror-Copy Tool

With the mirror-copy feature you can duplicate and mirror objects or entire designs simultaneously. Any number of rows or columns can be set. This tool is perfect for creating decorative borders.

Copy Array Tool

For speedier stitchouts, make multiple copies of designs spread in rows and columns. Color blocks are sequenced automatically.

Enhanced Knife Tool

The Knife Tool allows you to cut run stitches so you can split monograms, in addition to adding text and doing so much more.

TrueType & OpenType Fonts

You can expand your library by converting TrueType or Open Type fonts from your Windows system into embroidery. Professionally digitized fonts deliver the best results.

Organise your Designs

Search your entire PC in seconds and view designs without opening them up.

Convert File Formats

Batch-conversion saves you time. Easily convert your designs to the most popular file formats, so they’re ready to be used on almost all embroidery machines.

Recolour Designs

Recolour your design by choosing any colour or selecting from hundreds of thread charts. You have the ability to change the colour of a single object, or multiple at once.

Resize Your Designs

Resize true object-based designs in Hatch V3. It will recalculate the stitches required for perfect results.

Combine Designs

Create unique, personalised designs with the ability to combine both text and objects.

Customise Designs

Customise designs to your liking with features like rotation, stitch spacing adjustment (density), recognising stitches to convert to objects and more.

Stitch Simulator

Save time, money and supplies by testing your designs on-screen before going to your machine. The TrueView stitch simulator will show how your design will stitch out.

Standard Shapes Tool

Use our large library of shapes to quickly digitize and convert a shape into an appliqué to create a new unique design.

Auto Fabric

Hatch will automatically adjust the underlay, pull compensation and density for your chosen fabric for best stitch results.

Stabilizer Recommendation

With the Auto-Fabric feature, Hatch will recommend the appropriate stabilizer so can achieve the best stitch results every time.

Match Your Thread Brand

Hatch includes a number of thread charts so your colour matching is perfect. Edit the existing or create your own custom charts.

Colour blending
Add/remove stitch angles
Break-apart tool for lettering, monograms and objects
Ambience quilting

Outline/Run stitch types
Branch objects
Tatami and fill stitch types
Digitize, fill and remove holes

Plus so much more!

Hatch Add-on GEMs

Cross Stitch GEM

With this Hatch add-on GEM, you can create beautiful Cross Stitch designs. Use the collection of easy-to-use design tools to digitize your own cross stitch designs or import artwork and images to auto-digitize. Transform a drawing, use an existing design or create one from scratch! Learn more about the Cross Stitch GEM here →

CorelDRAW GEM

Hatch's CorelDRAW add-on GEM allows you to create and edit beautiful graphics which can then be imported into Hatch to produce amazing auto-digitizing results. With easy-to-use graphical drawing tools, converting controls that put you in the driver's seat, Corel PowerTRACE, bitmap image adjustment tools and more, you have so much creative freedom! Learn more about the CorelDraw GEM here →

Compare all four levels of Hatch embroidery software and their key features to find out which one is best suited for you using our comparison chart →

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