Machine format · DSB
DSB embroidery files for Barudan, Ricoma and ZSK machines.
DSB puts Barudan’s stitches under a DST header, for Barudan, Ricoma and ZSK machines. Make a DSB from any logo with Motifab, checked before it is saved.
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What is a DSB file?
DSB is a DST header over Barudan’s stitches: it stitches exactly as a U01, with the same needles and Barudan’s own trim and stop codes, while the machine lists the design by its DST header. Barudan, Ricoma and ZSK machines read it. Motifab writes it and reads it back like every other file.
- More threads than needles? Motifab adds a stop to rethread and says so.
- ZSK machines read DST, DSB and U01; Motifab opens ZSK’s own DSZ, Z00 and Z01 but doesn’t write them.
How to make a DSB file from a logo
Open the logo
PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, PDF or AI. Motifab grades the file first: Good file, OK file or Poor file, with the reason.
Pick the machine
Choose Barudan in the machine chip, and Motifab uses its needles and hoops. DSB is the machine’s own file there, or one click away under Export.
Set the size, garment and colours
Left chest, cap front, sleeve, full back or your own size in millimetres; ten garments, each with its own underlay, density and pull compensation.
Digitize and check
The Auto Digitizer makes the stitches. Quality scores them against the artwork out of 100, and Fix all corrects what is safe to correct.
Export DSB
Motifab writes the file, reads it back and compares every needle point with the screen. A file that doesn’t match is never saved, and the old one stays.
Convert DST to DSB
Open the DST file, or one in any of the 40 formats Motifab opens: it opens stitched as the file has it, to recolour, move or add a name to. Export writes the DSB and checks it like any other file. A machine file has no shapes to stitch again, so resizing it by more than 10 % changes its density: for a new size, digitize from the logo.
What Motifab compares before a DSB is saved
- Every needle point, each within 0.06 mm of the screen
- Every thread change and needle
- Every trim and stop
- The header the machine reads: stitch count, colours, extents and label
- The thread names, where the format keeps them
Machines Motifab writes DSB for
Also read by
The models named read DSB, as their makers’ own pages say; the maker pages list more, with sources.
Questions
- What is a DSB file?
- “Data Stitch Barudan”: Barudan’s stitches, needles, trims and stops under a DST header. Barudan, Ricoma and ZSK machines read it.
- DSB or DST?
- A DST trims with jump codes and writes a stop as a colour change; a DSB carries trims, stops and the needle of each colour as codes of their own. If your machine reads DSB, it gets all three as Motifab set them.
The other formats Motifab writes
Your next DSB file, made and checked in Motifab.
Open a customer’s logo, export the DSB for your Barudan and embroider it within the 15 free days, with export included and no card. Every file is read back before it is saved, and every file you make is yours.
No card, nothing charged when it ends · then €149 a year
Founding price: €99 your first year, then €149 a year for as long as you stay subscribed. Ends 31 January 2027.
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- Download Motifab and sign in with your e-mail. Nothing is charged when the 15 days end.
- Export included
- Embroider Motifab’s files on your own machine before you pay; the files you make stay yours. The trial has 300 AI credits.
- Mac and Windows
- A Mac with Apple silicon on macOS 13 Ventura or later, or a PC with Windows 10 (64-bit) or later.