PE-Design is an embroidery digitizing software. With PE-Design a digitizer can create and convert an image to stitches in a number of sewing formats that various brands of embroidery machine can read. In effect it writes a software program and that program or file can be transferred to an embroidery machine via USB, floppy or CD, depending upon your machine's options.You can purchase PE-Design as a full or new installation or as an upgrade. It is a stand alone software, all features are included and no add-on modules are required. The PE-Design 7 upgrade will install over the 5 and 6 versions.