The pinnacle achievement for the home embroidery enthusiast, 4D Professional by Husqvarna Viking is the benchmark embroidery software system, leading the way in the home embroidery industry!

· 4D Professional includes eleven software modules: 4D Embroidery Extra, 4D Organizer, 4D Vision, 4D Design Enhancer, 4D Design Aligner, 4D Sketch and 4D Cross Stitcher. 4D Design Creator, 4D Fabric Decorator, 4D PictureStitch and 4D Font Digitizing are also included and are only available with the 4D Professional package. The package also includes machine accessory modules: 4D Disk Manager USB, 4D d-Card Reader/Writer and 4D Reader/Writer. Whet your appetite for embroidery with more than 300 embroideries and an additional 50 bonus designs from the wonderful Husqvarna Viking Embroidery collections. Over 55,000 clipart and 13,000 photos are included also!

4D Embroidery serves as the hub for the 4D Organizer, 4D Vision, 4D Sketch, 4D Design Enhancer, 4D Design Aligner and 4D Cross Stitcher modules. A stand-alone program, with 4D Embroidery you can load your favorite embroideries into your hoop, add stylish lettering, and combine to create new embroideries! Remove overlap automatically when combining or saving designs! Rotate, mirror image or change colors and combine designs – anything is possible! Resize any design with the stitch-density control. Center designs automatically in the hoop. Use the included Encore feature to automatically repeat and reflect your design along a line, around a circle or to border your hoop. Make any embroidery Endless. Place your favorite embroideries as many times as possible automatically in your chosen hoop. Choose from four types of alignment stitches for easy re-hooping and a perfect result!

· With the more than 100 specially designed fonts for perfect embroidered lettering, you can now select your fonts visually! Now, just like other print lay-out programs, you can choose your fonts from a 3D realistic view on screen, utilizing the new multi-line and spell-check features! And if 100 lettering styles aren’t enough, well you can create lettering from most TrueType® and OpenType® fonts on your computer using the patented QuickFontTM Wizard!

· You can also change the appearance of your lettering by using one of 21 envelope shapes. Create multiple lines automatically in most lettering envelopes with alignment and spacing options. Check Spelling as you type and edit lettering after creation.

Available as a stand-alone program, 4D Embroidery Extra is the hub of 4D Professional in addition to acting as the hub for 4D Organizer, 4D Vision, 4D Sketch, 4D Design Enhancer, 4D Design Aligner and 4D Cross Stitcher modules.

· What is the “Extra” in 4D Embroidery Extra? Automatic embroidery design creation! With the ExpressDesign Wizards, create designs automatically! ExpressEmbroidery lets you create a beautiful embroidery using areas of satin stitch and fill stitches. The design is adjusted automatically for your chosen fabric. ExpressTrace lets you trace outlines in a picture to design beautiful, one-of-a-kind running stitch designs. Think redwork and Celtic and line drawings – perfectly created with a few clicks of the mouse, or the Inspira Tablet Pen. Creating appliqué designs has never been easier! With ExpressBorder you can create borders of running stitch, motifs, satin stitch or appliqué around enclosed areas in a picture. And, 4D Embroidery Extra includes more than 275 embroideries and 325 clipart images, 4D Vision, 4D Organizer and machine accessory modules 4D Disk Manager USB, 4D d-Card Reader/Writer and 4D Reader/Writer.

View multiple embroideries on real garments, quilt blocks and fabrics! Over 600 garments courtesy of Unique, 600 quilt blocks courtesy of Electric Quilt Company, and fabric libraries brought to you by RJR Fabrics. You can also add your own real-size fabric or garment backgrounds and print real-size templates for your project. It gets even better! View decorations, such as unlimited appliqués, beads, and sequins on your designs. See Solar Active and Glow in the Dark threads change on the computer screen! Preview specialty techniques which use twin needles and dual threads!

4D Organizer takes the guesswork out of where your designs are and what they look like! Find your designs and pictures easily! Browse and print your embroideries, design outline and cross stitch files in zip files, folders or via Search. Create a personal HTML catalog. Convert embroideries between formats or to images! 4D Organizer is a standalone package that is included in 4D Embroidery and 4D Embroidery Extra. It is also included in Husqvarna Viking 4D Professional System and with the 4D Reader/Writer Kits.

Included in Design Enhancer, 4D Stitch Editor also includes Design Optimizer – a feature that improves the stitch-out of most embroidery, both in speed and quality. Resize designs with density control and adjustable options. The Density Adviser allows you to check and reduce the stitch density of any embroidery. You can also add or delete stitches, color changes, stops or trim commands. You can even choose from nine different tie stitches to improve design stitch-out.

· When editing, you can select specific stitches by block, color, polygon or freehand and then adjust them. Use the Stitch Player to play through an embroidery as if it were being stitched out. Set the needle points on to see where the needle will penetrate the fabric.

· Want to frame embroidery? With border and appliqué options you can choose from 50 shapes or draw your own shape to make a new embroidery with a satin border or as an appliqué. Keep the section of embroidery which is positioned inside or outside the border, or simply overlay the border. Transform your designs with the twelve fantastic point and global morphing effects.

· Try the exclusive PatternMakeTM features to add amazing patterns to your embroideries. Choose from over 200 stamps to make a single stamp, stamp along a line or fill an area. Two sizes are available for each stamp and you may change the angle of the stamp as desired. Automatically remove needle points to create a blank canvas for your new patterns.

Be still my heart, but believe it or not, you can take any design regardless of size, select your hoop, and 4D Design Aligner will automatically split the design for your hoop! Alignment stitches are generated automatically for easy re-hooping. You can even adjust the overlap areas between hoops and print templates to help you complete your project.

4D Cross Stitcher, included with 4D Professional System, is available as a plug-in component of 4D Embroidery or 4D Embroidery Extra. With 4D Cross Stitcher, create unique cross stitch designs automatically with traditional and contemporary stitches. Repeat and reflect your design, or add personalized lettering. Over 150 cross stitch embroideries and elements included! You can also create your own cross stitch patterns. Use the included images or your own pictures as templates or let the Cross Stitcher Wizard automatically create the design for you. Set the hoop and cross size, choose the desired thread database and the number of colors. With just a few clicks you have unique cross stitch embroidery. Design with traditional and modern stitches; choose from full, half, quarter, mini and half-height or half-width crosses, fixed or free backstitch and French knots. Choose to view your designs in block, 2D or 3D display as they will be sewn on Aida cloth. Create petit point, needlepoint and blackwork designs. Adjust the number of threads between 2 and 12 to visualize the embroidery floss strands for these traditional techniques. Set cross stitch size anywhere from 1 mm to 20 mm in length. Automatically reflect your design up to eight times with the amazing Multiply feature. Draw fun shapes with crosses, outlines and fill patterns. There are over 150 special cross stitch and Blackwork fill patterns included. You can also create cross stitch lettering to personalize tablecloths, napkins, towels and linens with classic cross-stitch text. Choose from 27 backstitch and cross stitch fonts, including Multi-color fonts, or create a monogram from most TrueType® or OpenType® fonts available on your computer. You can even create text using beautiful fill patterns! Smooth text automatically, too.

4D Sketch is included with 4D Professional System, and is available as a plug-in component to 4D Embroidery or 4D Embroidery Extra. The standalone package includes Inspira 4D Drawing Kit with tablet and pen, 5000 clipart, 5000 photos. With 4D Sketch, simply use the tablet and pen to sketch and embroider your own free motion designs! Add texture and machine motifs to your own pictures! Quilting stitches and embroidered calligraphy are other fantastic ways to utilize the software to make embroidery that is truly one-of-a-kind! If you can think it, you can do it with 4D Sketch – even embroidery your own signature simply by writing it with the Inspira Tablet and Pen!

Digitizing has never been easier! The straightest path between thinking it and doing it, 4D Design Creator is your painting program for stitches! Choose Express Embroidery to bring picture images to life in thread! Got a line drawing? How about ExpressTrace for outline embroidery such as redwork? Use ExpressBorder to make an appliqué design in seconds!

· And you have complete and utter control! With the editing features and the newly incorporated stitch Filmstrip, navigate around your design with absolute ease! Convert stitch types and patterns, add or delete anything – from a color change to a stitch point. More than 250 amazing fill patterns are included – and you can even make your own. Emboss fill areas with personal highlights. Set the start and end points of fill areas. Use gradient density to produce beautiful shading effects. Specialty fill types include Radial, Spiral, Shape fill with 50 shape styles (and motif options), and QuiltStipple fill. (Packaged and available as a component of 4D Embroidery Professional only.

Embellish fabric with wonderful motifs using your favorite machine embroidery stitches. Create decorated fabric as a full hooping or as an appliqué shape. Create wonderful pieces of heirloom fabric using motifs designed for Wing Needle. Have fun with crazy chenille patches. With the Fabric Wizard, it only takes a moment. The patterns you can create are unlimited as are the motifs, because you can design your own! Create motifs automatically from your own pictures or edit existing stitches for use in the hoop. Load your background picture, and create. Trace areas automatically or draw Freehand in "tablet mode". (Packaged and available as a component of 4D Embroidery Professional only.)

Embroider unique greeting cards, family quilts, framed portraits and much more, using photos from your own family albums. After scanning a photo on your computer or using a digital camera, you can automatically turn it into an attractive design. Improve your pictures with filters and retouching options. Choose from three color modes: full-color, Sepia Tone or 4-color Custom, and six monochrome modes. Frame your embroidery with a satin border. (Packaged and available as a component of 4D Embroidery Professional only.)

Create your own Fonts and Shapes to use in the 4D Embroidery System. Create complex fonts and shapes, or modify fonts produced in the QuickFont Wizard. You can even make Multi-Color and Multi-Pattern fonts. Use the handy select, modify, copy and paste features to save time when creating complex ornamental characters. (Packaged and available as a component of 4D Embroidery Professional only.)