Save the design as .PES and then copy and save as .PES 6 and see if your EM will recognize the .PES 6 format.

UPDATE -

I found this information in the Designer's Gallery Studio Plus software instruction manual under "Conversion".   

"One of the most popular formats for home embroidery is the .PES file. 

There are at present many versions of this file.

There are three conversion options that are unique to PES: 

(1) Convert using PES version 5 with real thread colors.  This allows the .PES 5 format to be written, which is necessary for the larger-field machines such as Ellageo and the EMP6

(2) Ensures trims and tie-offs.  If the design already contains tie-offs, not extras are added.

(3)  Convert 180mm x 300mm designs with PES 6.0 format.  This is used for machines such as the Baby Lock Ellegante which require a Palette 6.0 to edit 200 x 300 designs.  If you do not have this machine, turn this feature off. 

If you have a file that does not require the 180mm x 300mm hoop, then the file will be written according to the PES version 5 format preference (#1, above)."

I have a Baby Lock Ellegante and just saved a design in both PES and PES 6 format (which are two of several options I have with Designer's Gallery). 

I see no difference in the formats, and both opened on the EM.  The design was larger than 5 x 7.

.PES 6 is a stitch format and not design software.  The format has nothing to do with PE Design or PED Basic. 

Brother confuses the issue by using PE this and that when naming their software products.

All software conversion and digitizing products will save to many formats, including .PES

JLittle - you will be thinking of these things and soon!  Machine embroidery is an addiction that we can live with very well!

Pat, The Avid Embroiderer

Hello Joan

Ok, so since I am using the PED Basic I am saving my designs as  pes when using the Alphabet Express, and everything is working great.  I forgot about the different Versions of PE-Design.

I think I am going to have to try the Catalog Express next.

Judy

Joan,

Understand on the .pes.

I really like the Alphabet Xpress and I am going to purchase that for sure.  I did download the trial version of Catalog Xpress and I like the way it shows your designs.   That it will convert other files is nice.  Let me tell you what I do.  When I purchase a design(s) I download them into a file I named Zipped Files, then I unzipp them into a file named Zipped Files.  After that I rename the files from my receipt and place them into the different folders I made for them.  Then I open up PED-Basic to look at the designs.  Not as nice as Catalog Xpress though.  I read some more on the Catalog Express and it said that I can write from Catalog Express to the Amazing Box or the Ulimate Box with a card of course, so I can put the designs on the embroidery machine.   I was hoping that it would work with the PE-Basic. 

How do you save your files in two different places at once?

I am having a lot of fun and would probley like all the software out there but I don't think my budget could handle it.

Judy

Joan

I guess I miss understood what you were saying.  But I understand now.  I think I read that Catalog Express automaticly unzips your files.  If that is the case what does it do with the zip files.  I still have all of mine, but in a seperate file from the rest.

I also print out the color change chart, but I but them in a folder in the file cabinet.  I started to do a binder but some of them printed too close to the left edge and I would have had to punch holes throuh the color chart.  Not good.

Now I have another question.  When converting a file to a .pes, I thought that pes was pes becaue that is what I download for my designs and no verison is mentioned.  Well, I converted a file for my sister (something her $700 software would not let her do) and I needed to choose .pes but they had I think 7 versions of the pes.  I choose version one and told her to try it and let me know and that I would check and see what I could find out. 

I finally decided to try the USB cable today.  I hook it up and I saved (it would not let me copy or click and drag) to the removal disk that the program put in and it transferred it to my embroidery machine.  So I do not need to purchase another box and I can use Catalog Express.  That made me very happy. 

If we are using Catalog Express do we really need to have our designs in PED-Basic and Catalog Express?

I think it is finally sinking in.   It's like Photo Shop,  there is a catalog of my pictures but all they are are thumbnails and if I move or delete the picture it will not find it.  Another question along that line.  When I download my zipped designs to a file in my computer do I leave them unzipped there and just have them unzipped in Catalog Xpress or do they need to be unzipped in both places.  Because I do keep my zipped files in a seperate file from the rest.

Now another question about that darn .pes.  When I converted the file with the version 1 (because I did not know which one to use) it gave me the incorrect colors.  The colors should have been black and shades of grey, it have me blue, green, and red.  When we download the .pes files what are they using?  They don't ask you to choose a verison.  I have not had any trouble using any of the designs I have downloaded unless I had purchased one that was too large.

My sister has a 2500D, I think it is an Inovis.  She gave me her SE270D and now I have the PE-700II.  I'm moving up in the world.  After I use this for while (maybe a long while) I'll ask for one with a colored screen.  These embroidery machines are like the ditigal cameras they are just changing and improving way to fast and you can not keep up with them, computers included.

I use the sheet protectors a lot.  My sister and I also do genelogy and all of family group sheets, pictures, and etc. is in binders with sheet protectors.  I just havn't started it with the embroidery designs. 

With so much traffic on this subject, I thought I'd comment also.  I love Alpha Xpress and Catalog Xpress for organizing and viewing designs.  Like others, I have thousands of designs I've purchased or downloaded and needed to organize them some way so I could find them.  I try to just use my laptop for my designs (and back-up faithfully to an external drive).  When I download the zip designs, I put them in a file folder named for the site I downloaded from, (Ann the Gran; Embroidery Library; ABC Library, etc.)  Then, I insert the designs into Catalog Xpress either by a catagory (flowers, alphabets, etc.) or by a catagory of the purchase site (Ann the Gran; Emb Library, etc.) where it makes the most sense to me to find. 

I found out the hard way that sometimes the colors do not match after downloading when the color for my white daisies was gray, so I too started printing out the design and color chart and putting the sheets into a binder and follow that sheet when I stitch out the design.

Thanks for all the information on this site.

Debbie

Lots of good information here.  Let me offer this suggestion, use the highest number of pes version you have available.  If you have problems, work backward through the numbers.

You definitely are moving up in the world with your PE-700II.  It is a real work horse and even if you purchase up in the future, you will want to keep it for over flow or times when a new lovable machine might be in the shop for service.

ME is one of the most wonderful crafts you will love so much.  There are great friends on the net and in your neighborhood to meet as well as beautiful designs to cherish.  When you have hundreds of designs, you will appreciate CatalogXpress all the more!

Pat, The Avid Embroiderer

Hello,

I don't know if this will make you feel any better, but when I put my designs into the brother PED-Basic my colors are really bad.  I have always used the color change sheets from the companies where I got my designs.  I find that some of the color change sheets are better then others, like with Embroidery Library they actually tell you what you are stitching.  I wish more would do that. 

Have a good evening!!!

Judy