OpenHoop 0.13.6

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.5? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.6.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.6

Straight lines in 15° steps

• While drawing with a point-by-point tool (Running, Satin, Fill, Hole, Open and Closed Shape, Knife), hold ⌘ (or ⌃ Control): a dashed line from the last point shows where the next click goes, turned to the nearest 15° step (straight across, 15°, 30°, 45°, … straight up), with its angle. Click with the key held to put a corner there.
• The same key snaps the Measure line and Add Stitch Angles lines, both when clicking the second point and when dragging an end.
• Control-click no longer adds a curve point while drawing; secondary-click (two-finger click) and press-and-drag still make curves.

Stitch angle line

• With Edit Nodes (H) on a fill, dragging an end of its stitch angle line now keeps the other end where it is: the line runs from it to the pointer, as long as you drag it, and the stitches turn smoothly to match. It no longer swings around the middle of the shape.
• Hold ⌘, ⌃ or ⇧ while dragging for 15° steps.
• Double-click the line to put it back across the whole shape, through the middle. The angle stays.

Line art

• Add Line Art… with Bean (triple) sews the stretches where a drawing goes back over itself once instead of three more times, as Make Redwork does, so they come out about as bold as the rest of the line.

Smaller fixes

• The Basic Shapes tool's hint says 55 shapes (it said 35), and the drawing tools' hints point to Next shape in Properties.

Files

Bean line art now saves as file version 24, which needs OpenHoop 0.13.0 or later. Where the stitch angle line is drawn is saved too; older versions ignore it, and it never changes the stitches.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 3b594e915796b09623193fd80c527ebaec0beab2c1efe4e717c8c56f9e0761fb

OpenHoop 0.13.5

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.4? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.5.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.5

Measure: click, move, click

• The Measure tool (M) now works like the shape tools: click one point, move the pointer, and click the other. While the line follows the pointer, the status bar shows the distance and angle as you move.
• Dragging still works as before.
• Esc while the line follows the pointer drops it and keeps Measure on; Esc again goes back to Select.

Number fields

• Number fields sit in soft wells pressed into the panel, with the unit (mm, in, %, °) inside, after the number. A blue ring shows while you type in one.
• Numbers drop trailing zeros: 100, 0.4 and 2.5 instead of 100.00, 0.40 and 2.50. You can still type any decimals.
• The tie stitch count is now a number field like the length beside it (1–3), instead of a pop-up menu.
• This covers every number field: Properties, the Design panel, Settings, My Hoops and the Outlines dialog, in light and dark mode.

SHA-256 of the DMG: a40f84cab79c71cffe2482599416bc4d4ac260031fd57a79dd3519b54783ed74

OpenHoop 0.13.4

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.3? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.4.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.4

Rotate and skew on the canvas

• Rotate: just outside any corner of the selection, the pointer turns into a round arrow. Drag there to turn the selection around its middle; a small cross marks the middle while it turns, and the status line shows the angle. The corner squares still resize.
• Skew: click the selection again (without dragging) and the handles on its sides become diamonds. Drag the top or bottom one to lean it sideways, or the left or right one to lean it up and down; the opposite side stays put. Click again for the stretch handles.
• Hold ⇧ to turn or lean in steps of 15°. Fill rows turn and lean with the shape.
• The pointer shows what a drag will do: ↻ to rotate, diagonal arrows on corners, ↔ and ↕ on sides, ⇄ on skew diamonds.

Reference image: rotate, flip, skew and crop

• With Move & Size Artwork (⌥D), drag just outside a corner of the image to rotate it, and click the image for skew diamonds on its sides, the same as for objects.
• The Reference image panel has Rotate and Skew boxes, buttons that turn the image 90° or flip it, and Straighten, which takes every turn, flip and skew away.
• Crop: click Crop and drag a box over the part of the image to keep. The rest is hidden, not thrown away: Uncrop brings it back where it was.
• Auto-digitize traces the image the way it sits on the canvas, turned, flipped, skewed or cropped, and its dialog shows it that way.

Files

A turned, flipped, skewed or cropped reference image shows plain and uncropped in older versions. It never changes the stitches.

SHA-256 of the DMG: d3c655037ddc55587ba3866d57b63b2eadfbcfa4183022fe9a02d164e716e89e

OpenHoop 0.13.3

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.2? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.3.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.3

Copies Along Line: Spacing

• A Spacing slider (2–50 mm), under Copies in Properties, sets the copies closer together or further apart. They still run from one end of the line to the other: the line fills with as many copies as fit, and the label shows the real gap.
• Reshape the line and it fills again at the same spacing, so a longer vine gets more leaves.
• Typing a number in Copies goes back to that many. One slider drag undoes as one step.

Files

Files with a spacing open in older versions with the same copies; they just don't refill when the line is reshaped there.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 6b9aeb47b3801bc0cfa102017d5e15cf9970fcf3e1baa89760b2fb450e2a70d7

OpenHoop 0.13.2

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.1? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.2.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.2

Click, move, click

• Rectangle, Ellipse and Basic Shapes can now be drawn without holding the mouse down: click where the shape starts (an ellipse's center), let go, move the pointer and the shape follows it, then click again to put it down.
• Pressing and dragging still works as before. ⌘ keeps the shape even and ⇧ draws it from the center either way.
• Esc after the first click cancels the shape; Return puts it down as it is.

Files

Nothing changes in files: 0.13.2 saves the same files as 0.13.0.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 5db313a1c1d738b0e96c5227fbc59cb6c25dd8a03e829ae5aa3b5ffd552e9c0e

OpenHoop 0.13.1

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.13.0? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.1.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.1

Shape tools

• Picking a closed-shape tool (Closed Shape, Freehand Closed, Rectangle, Ellipse or Basic Shapes) now always starts the next shape at a Tatami fill with no outline, instead of the fill you picked last time. A change you make while the tool is on still lasts until you pick a tool again.
• Sew: Fill | Outline | Both, at the top of Next shape's Stitches, makes an outline-only shape one click. The Fill and Outline menus show only for what's on, so they no longer offer None.

Files

Nothing changes in files: 0.13.1 saves the same files as 0.13.0.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 5f9fb4c1f4cf3e17fe0bbe4bf913b3bf0ba35b000b2a9d1bf25f77f59e04633b

OpenHoop 0.13.0

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.12.0? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.13.0.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.13.0

Redwork

• Make Redwork (Digitize › Pick & Shape, or the Redwork button in Properties) turns the selected running lines into redwork: one continuous bean-stitch line for every set of lines that touch, going back over a line already sewn instead of trimming. Lines that don't touch anything stay separate, in one group.
• Where the route goes back over a line, it's sewn once instead of three times, so those lines come out nearly as bold as the rest instead of twice as heavy. Sew retraced parts once, under Passes, turns this on or off for any bean line.

Hand stitch for fills

• Fills can now be sewn with Hand stitch: the needle holes inside each row move a little at random, so the rows look sewn by hand. Choose Light, Medium or Strong, and a Variant for a different random pattern. Row ends and underlay stay put.

Recognize Objects

• Satin columns get their own spacing, measured from the stitches, instead of the default.
• Fills get their tatami pattern read from the needle holes.
• Satin rings come back closed, without a notch.
• Hand-stitched fills come back with Hand stitch turned on.

Easier to use

• Click and hold a tool button to open its choices, as right-click does.
• Properties offers only the buttons that suit the selection, and a new Join lines button.
• The shape tools offer every line style.
• Every millimeter setting in Properties says mm.
• The Line style and Pattern menus are wide enough for their longest names, and Line style comes first.
• The Hand stitch and Jagged edge settings show only once they're turned on.
• Add Line Art… warns when the drawing won't fit the hoop.

Fixes

• Contour fill on stars and other pointy shapes now spirals corner to corner, instead of rows cutting across each other at the tips.

Files

Files saved by 0.13.0 open in 0.12.0 and earlier unless they have a fill sewn with Hand stitch, or a bean line with Sew retraced parts once (which Make Redwork turns on). Those files need 0.13.0.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 3545a053d428f1a1d6149e7c529e7c40c9bd9fad568615b86783bf65fbf4863c

OpenHoop 0.12.0

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.11.0? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.12.0.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.12.0

Line art

• Add Line Art… (Digitize › Add, and on the tool band next to Add Monogram) adds a ready-made drawing in running stitch: a heart divider, scroll divider, laurel branch, oval frame, flower, tulip, butterfly, heart with swirl, snowflake, sun, teacup, anchor or rosette.
• Pick one from the pictures, then set its Width (20–200 mm) and Stitch (Running, or Bean for a bolder line). It's added in the middle of the hoop as one group.
• Lines that touch are joined into one continuous line, going back over a line already sewn where it must, as hand double running does. Ten of the thirteen drawings sew in one go with no trims, and the dialog shows how many jumps the others have.

Picture patterns

• 12 new tatami patterns whose needle holes draw small shapes across the fill: diamonds, small diamonds, argyle, triangles, hearts, raindrops, circles, dots, tall ovals, almonds, lattice and kites. That makes 56 in all.
• Shape size, under Pattern, sets how wide each shape is.
• The shapes turn with the stitch angle; set the angle to 0° to stand them upright.

Six new line styles

• Chain, Feather, Cross stitch, Herringbone, Ladder and Candlewick, in the Line style menu, each with its own width and spacing.
• The Line style list now scrolls, so all 13 styles fit on a laptop screen.

Fixes

• A satin fill with stitch angle lines sewed only half as densely as a plain satin fill at the same spacing, so fabric and underlay could show through. It now comes back across the shape between rows, like a plain satin fill.

Files

Files saved by 0.12.0 open in 0.11.0 and earlier unless they use a picture pattern or one of the new line styles. Those files need 0.12.0. Line art is plain running stitch, so it opens anywhere.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 21b0508d0ab78e1da2f0ed0987b026df5576aad9ca8b94b307b59c71d100ec11

OpenHoop 0.11.0

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.10.1? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.11.0.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.11.0

More to choose from

• 18 new tatami patterns, 44 in all: rain, hills, rolling hills, S-curves, arches, feather, sawtooth, lightning, double zigzag, arrows, bands, basket, wood grain, bark, flames and more.
• 16 new motifs for motif fills and lines, among them a flower, tulip, snowflake, sun, cloud, bow, bird, pine tree and house.
• 20 new Basic Shapes: semicircle, arch, kite and capsule; pennant, plaque and ticket labels; a butterfly, mushroom, tulip, cactus and mountains; and a house, crown, bell, balloon, T-shirt, cupcake, light bulb and ice cream.
• 11 new embroidery fonts, 29 in all, in gothic, brush, storybook, art deco, western and handwriting styles. All are free to use; their licenses are listed in the project's ThirdPartyNotices.txt.
• Monograms gain 7 ornaments (hearts, stars, diamonds, laurel, flourish, flower, lines) and 4 borders (heart, hexagon, octagon, square).

New tools

• Break Apart (Digitize › Pick & Shape) now works on more than lettering. It also splits monograms into their letters and ornaments, splits copies along a line into separate objects, and turns each hole in a fill into a fill of its own, so you can give a hole its own thread. The fill keeps its holes.
• Join Lines (Digitize › Pick & Shape) joins two or more open lines, or two or more satin columns, end to end into one object. Ends that touch are merged; gaps are bridged.
• Only underlay: right-click the Underlay button in the Show group (or use View › Show) to see only the underlay, with the stitching on top hidden, for all objects or just the selected objects. Buttons with a right-click menu now have a small arc in their bottom corner.

Fixes

• Some fonts sewed their running-stitch letters as solid blobs. Letters now follow their group's fill and stroke settings.
• The radial fill's Center and the ripple's Target markers now show only while the Edit Nodes or Start & End tool is on, like the start and end markers.

Files

Files saved by 0.11.0 open in 0.10.1 and earlier, unless they use one of the new patterns, motifs, monogram ornaments or borders. Those files need 0.11.0.

The download is about 3 MB larger than 0.10.1 because of the new fonts.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 3879c8350aac17baac46cdf971264f64f8fc9b0575c27a6f90aa5289b6e93a06

OpenHoop 0.10.1

OpenHoop is a free, open-source embroidery digitizing app for the Mac. It's in active development, and its designs have been sewn on a Brother SE600. Test-sew designs before stitching anything important.

Install

Already have 0.10.0? Choose OpenHoop › Check for Updates… and click Install Update, or just wait: OpenHoop checks once a day.

New to OpenHoop:

1. Download OpenHoop-0.10.1.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag OpenHoop onto Applications (replace the older copy if asked).
3. Open OpenHoop from Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. The first time, it asks which machine you sew on.

Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac.

New in 0.10.1

A clearer canvas

• With Thread View off, stitches are drawn as fine lines, one screen pixel wide at any zoom, so dense areas stay readable. The stitches of selected objects show in blue, so you can see at a glance what is selected. Thread View still shows the threads as they will sew, without the blue.
• Black thread looks black in Thread View. The shine on each stitch now depends on how light the thread is, so dark threads no longer look gray.
• Trying out a choice changes only that object. When you point at a choice in a picture menu (Fill style, Pattern, Line style), the canvas shows the new stitches in the object's place in the sewing order, so objects sewn later still cover it as they will on fabric.
• Start and end markers show only while the Edit Nodes tool or the Start & End tool is on, instead of on every selected object.

Files saved by 0.10.1 open in 0.10.0.

SHA-256 of the DMG: cec5e3ae0db1f4bc70ba30363e413d56d464eceda75eea85e6b21634eab06273