Barudan’s embroidery format: needle points, the needle for each colour, and Barudan’s own trim and stop codes.

U01 or DSB for my Barudan?

Both stitch the same: the same needles, trims and stops. DSB adds a DST header the machine lists the design by. Use the one your machine and your shop’s routine expect.

Does a U01 keep thread colours?

No, it keeps the needle each colour runs on. Motifab’s worksheet lists the needles in stitch order with their threads, so the operator threads the right colours.

Machine format · U01

U01 embroidery files for Barudan machines.

U01 is Barudan’s own embroidery format, with a needle for each colour and real stop codes. Make a U01 from any logo with Motifab, read back before it is saved.

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What is a U01 file?

U01 is Barudan’s own embroidery format. Instead of thread colours it stores the needle each colour runs on, and it has codes of its own for trims and stops, so a stop stays a stop. Motifab writes U01 for Barudan machines, needles 1 to 15, and checks every file before it is saved.

More threads than the machine has needles? Motifab adds a stop to rethread and says so.
DSB holds the same stitches under a DST header the machine lists the design by.

Macro photo illustration of the FC Aurora sample’s stitches, made from Motifab’s file — 705 needle points from Motifab’s file of the FC Aurora sample, in 25 mm. A U01 keeps each one, in the order the machine stitches them. Photo illustration made from Motifab’s file.

How to make a U01 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. U01 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 U01
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 U01

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 U01 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 U01 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 U01 for

Barudan

Questions

What is a U01 file?: Barudan’s embroidery format: needle points, the needle for each colour, and Barudan’s own trim and stop codes.
U01 or DSB for my Barudan?: Both stitch the same: the same needles, trims and stops. DSB adds a DST header the machine lists the design by. Use the one your machine and your shop’s routine expect.
Does a U01 keep thread colours?: No, it keeps the needle each colour runs on. Motifab’s worksheet lists the needles in stitch order with their threads, so the operator threads the right colours.

The other formats Motifab writes

How to digitize a logo, step by step

Your next U01 file, made and checked in Motifab.

Open a customer’s logo, export the U01 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.

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