Explorations Embroidery Software is OESD's easy-to-use customizing and editing program. It includes:

  • over 800 built-in designs
  • 40 fonts
  • articles and garments for designing your embroidery projects
  • Cookie Cutters -- images that allow you to add stitches and create your own designs

Explorations allows you to:

  • re-scale designs, while preserving stitch count, density and pull compensation.
  • read and write most home embroidery formats
  • open designs directly from a CD
  • use the included “Filing Assistant” program to:
    • import designs
    • catalog & organize your collection
    • batch convert designs
    • open designs without unzipping them!
  • use “Find Others” to find all the designs on your computer, even if you have “lost” them!

Explorations allows you to:

  • cut, copy, paste
  • mirror image
  • rotate
  • quickly remove extra stitches when designs are overlapped
  • drag and drop designs onto your screen - simple and easy!
  • work in True (Design) View to see your designs as they will sew!

Thread management:

  • thread charts for most brands are included
  • “Thread inventory” feature keeps track of thread colors/brands you own
  • “Color wheel” re-colors designs with just a few clicks
  • “Stitch Sequence” reduces extra color changes to save sewing time.

You can even design your project on the computer before you ever take a stitch:

  • add designs to garments, home dec items and accessories
  • use built-in articles or scan your own
  • choose from hundreds of built-in fabrics
  • scan fabrics or import fabric images from websites

Explorations is a fully integrated program:

  • uses one workspace
  • no switching between different programs, even when you add options

Amazingly Affordable!

  • purchase Options individually
  • purchase Combo packages
  • purchase the entire program all at once (Galaxy Edition)

Add additional options to your software to make it even more powerful:

  • Appliqué
  • Buttonholes
  • Circle/Ring/Star
  • Layout Wheel
  • Multi-Hooping -- splits large designs and creates positioning marks for perfect hooping and matching
  • Quilter
  • Reshape
  • Slow redraw / Sequence by Select
  • Special Effects
  • Stipple
  • Free: Color Wheel (with Registration), BERNINA Machine Connection & Professional Formats included or available to purchased online for free.

Click HERE to read more about Explorations Options