Meteor 0.9.2 beta

Meteor comes to the Mac, with multi-position hoops and timelapse videos of your digitizing.

New

• Multi-position hoops and splitting: Brother 4" × 6.75" (100 × 172 mm) and 5" × 12" (130 × 300 mm) 3-position frames, plus custom 2- and 3-position hoops. The canvas shows peg notches, overlap zones, dashed seam lines and A / B / C position badges. Exporting PES or DST writes one position-anchored file per peg position (_A, _B, _C), keeping whole objects together when they fit a single position and splitting tall fills, satins and runs with a 0.6 mm seam overlap.
• Meteor for Mac (macOS 10.15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel). Open meteor-macos.dmg and drag Meteor to Applications. Double-click a .meteor design in the Finder to open it, or use Open With on a PES, DST or SVG file. Meteor reopens at the window size and place you left it. Timelapse videos use the Mac's hardware H.264 encoder when ffmpeg or GStreamer is installed. The beta is not yet notarized by Apple: the first time, allow it in System Settings > Privacy & Security.
• Thread build-up map (View > Thread build-up) now flags 0.3 mm needle-hole pile-ups (8+ needle drops in the same hole) alongside thread layer density.
• Underlay has its own Spacing and Stitch length (Properties > Underlay). Spacing sets how dense a fill's underlay grid or a satin's zigzag underlay is; stitch length applies to every underlay run. "Automatic spacing and length" goes back to what the stitch type picks.
• File > Export timelapse video. Pick what it shows:
  • Design: how you digitized it. Meteor records a step each time your work saves (nothing to switch on), so the video replays the design growing over its reference picture, which fades out to show the finished embroidery. Each new object sews in stitch by stitch behind the needle; objects you reshape or move dissolve to their new stitches. Designs made before this update build up one object at a time in sewing order.
  • Screen recording: File > Record screen for timelapse captures the app as you work, toolbars and all (a Recording badge at the top stops it). For a story or post, the screen sits over a blurred copy of itself.
  • Sew-out: the finished design sewing out, stitch by stitch.
• The Export timelapse window plays the video as you set it up: tap the preview to pause, drag across it to scrub. Shape, background and length changes show at once.
• Videos are story (9:16), post (4:5), square or the design's own shape, 6, 12 or 24 seconds, as MP4. Android uses its built-in encoder; Linux and macOS use GStreamer or ffmpeg. With neither, Meteor makes an animated GIF.
• Export picture has a Shape choice: fit the design, square 1:1, post 4:5 or story 9:16 (1080 pixels wide), with the design centered.

Fixed

• Satin columns and turning fills scatter crowded needle drops at tight inner curves, split long rail steps and underlay runs, and cap 3D puff satin columns at 7 mm so foam never catches on the presser foot.
• Stipple, cross stitch and motif fills use a spatial polygon index, generating complex fills 5–10× faster.
• Crop reference image is redrawn: the canvas's square handles on corners and sides, drag inside to move, drag outside to draw a new crop, thirds while dragging, and the crop's size in pixels. It now follows the pointer on large photos (only the crop box is repainted).
• Going from one object to the next in the same thread, the exported file could sew a short run down the middle of a satin column that was already finished, which showed on the satin. It now trims and jumps instead. Runs still hide under objects sewn later.
• Radial fill froze the app for many seconds (and could get it closed as not responding) on a shape with other objects over it, such as a background. Radial and concentric fills are now made about 100 times faster, with the same stitches.
• The Android app icon showed a white border on some launchers. It is now an adaptive icon (with a themed icon for Android 13 and later), so the launcher fills the whole shape.

Install

Download the file for your device below. Install steps are on the Meteor page.

Meteor 0.9.1 beta

Fixes from the first days of tablet testing.

Fixed

• Object > Stitches > Optimize sewing order failed with an error on any design that was already on screen.

Editing

• Lettering comes with a few nodes per letter instead of one for every point of the font's outline, so letters are easy to reshape. Stitches look the same.
• Direct select has a task bar under the canvas: Add and Remove points (or satin rungs), Smooth / corner and Delete for the selected point, and Simplify. Adding a point keeps the shape exactly as it was. Works with touch on tablets.
• Object > Path > Simplify points gives whole selections fewer nodes, such as lettering made with 0.9.0.
• Adding, deleting and smoothing points can now be undone.

Install

Download the file for your device below. Install steps are on the Meteor page.

Meteor 0.9.0 beta

The first public beta of Meteor, an embroidery digitizing studio for Linux and Android tablets. A Windows build is included but has had less testing. Every Pro feature is unlocked during the beta.

Digitizing

• Line stitches: running, bean, backstitch, stem, chain, candlewick, blanket, V and motif run.
• Satin columns from two rails or a center line, with mitred corners, split satin for wide columns and automatic underlay.
• Fills: tatami with textures, satin, contour, spiral, concentric, radial, stipple, cross stitch, motif, flow fill along guide lines, and applique.
• Shapes, freehand drawing, brush satin, 3D puff, an eraser that rubs out stitches, and a knife that cuts shapes or punches holes.
• Path tools: weld, break apart, close shape, outlines and offsets, turn into satin column, close gaps.
• Magic wand, auto-digitize a picture, and guided digitizing that reviews a picture or SVG piece by piece. Ink/Stitch SVG files open as objects.

Lettering

• Eight hand-digitized fonts, plus any Google Font or font file digitized by Meteor.
• Satin, tatami and satin fill lettering; arches, spacing, density and multiple lines.

Checking and sewing

• Realistic thread preview, sewing simulation and a thread build-up map.
• Check design: size, stitch count, color changes, jumps to trim and other machine limits, with Fix all.
• Choose your Brother machine; hoops and checks follow it.
• Test sew sheets for tension, density and pull compensation.
• Export Brother PES (v6 and v1), Tajima DST, PNG and SVG, plus applique cut files and a printable worksheet with Brother thread numbers.

Files

• Designs save as .meteor files, with automatic saving and a gallery of recent designs.
• Open PES, DST, .meteor and SVG files.

Feedback

• Help > Report a problem builds a report to send to beelito.dev@gmail.com. Nothing is sent automatically.

Install

Download the file for your device below. Install steps are on the Meteor page.