Machine format · VP3
VP3 embroidery files for Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff machines.
VP3 is the Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff format, with every thread’s maker, number and name. Make a VP3 from any logo with Motifab, checked before it is saved.
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What is a VP3 file?
VP3 is the embroidery format of Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff machines. Like PES, it keeps each thread’s maker, number and name, so the machine shows the colours you chose. Motifab writes it for both makers, up to 255 colour blocks, and reads every file back before it is saved.
- Choose a thread chart under Thread changes so the VP3 carries real thread numbers.
- HUS, the older Husqvarna format, opens in Motifab; VP3 is what it writes.
- Pfaff machines read PEC too, and in Motifab’s Pfaff profile also PES, JEF, EXP, DST and XXX.
How to make a VP3 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 Husqvarna Viking in the machine chip, and Motifab uses its needles and hoops. VP3 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 VP3
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 PES to VP3
Open the PES 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 VP3 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 VP3 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 VP3 for
Also read by
The models named read VP3, as their makers’ own pages say; the maker pages list more, with sources.
Questions
- What is a VP3 file?
- The embroidery format of Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff: needle points, jumps and colour changes, with the maker, number and name of every thread.
- Does a VP3 keep my thread colours?
- Yes: maker, number and name for each colour. Choose the thread chart in Motifab’s Design panel and the file carries its numbers; 75 charts come with Motifab.
- Can Motifab open older Husqvarna HUS files?
- Yes, as a design to recolour, move or add a name to. It writes VP3 for the machine, since HUS isn’t published well enough to write so it stitches correctly.
The other formats Motifab writes
Your next VP3 file, made and checked in Motifab.
Open a customer’s logo, export the VP3 for your Husqvarna Viking 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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- 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.