This message was posted by Nevi on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/522.html#000004 hi:) There is a difference in what you see as software native files ,and in what you see as the output machine files. Machines files have very low level info, so, eg if save in your main software format, you see everything looks just dandy, and tweaked etc exactly as you did it onscreen. The differences come in in the translation to the Machine files eg. cnd. etc..Some find these differences confusing to work with. EXP files hold information ok, and look nicer. One reason that many prefer the simple DST files is that they are generally less of a problem to work with. People find it irritating,and a bit mind boggling to figure out why their minor tweaks etc that they perform in native software, doesn't really seem to have an exact result in the embroidery file. Most perform edits in high zoom factors and find almost no change in the output files. In general,melco files can prove to be problematic to edit, to get very successful machine results , and what you see as the design visibly changing , is because of the low level information held by the machine file. bye Nevi www.efectpro.com (http://www.efectpro.com) www.-cliqq.com (http://www.-cliqq.com) *180 Free Designs* Have a little fun. =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================