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Today is the release date for Janome’s new Digitizer MBX v5 software, and we’re really excited to show off this new software.
What’s New In Janome Digitizer MBX v5?
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Janome’s new Digitizer MBX boasts a brand new interface, clean and easy to use, that will ultimately make your custom embroidery projects come to life! New features include:
- Design Management
- Embroidery design management integration
- Shortcuts to embroidery design collections within the main application
- Design Customization
- Design information is easily available
- Articles included as design backgrounds
- Improved recoloring of designs
- Design Color Palette
- My Threads
- Color Wheel
- Cycle Used Colors
- Stitch spacing for existing designs is easily changed
- Optimize color changes
- Design Layouts
- Options for creating dynamic design layouts
- Editing Objects
- Options for applying copied properties from one object to another
- Adding and removing of stitch angles
- Advanced Digitizing
- Trapunto Outlines
- Carving Stamps
- Color Blending
- Capture and share design images
- 3D Satin stitch type
- 3D Warp effect for motif fill
- New Memory Craft 15000 machine support
A very exciting change in our new software is a simplified upgrading system. Before, there was a separate part number to upgrade your software from every previous software. For example, Upgrade from Digitizer MBX v4 to 4.5, and Upgrade from Digitizer MB to MBX 4.5. This meant carrying a lot of inventory for every upgrade. Now, all Digitizers versions MB through MBX v4.5 will upgrade to v5 from the same software. This is true for each level of software. There is an upgrade from any Digitizer Jr since MB to Jr v5, from any Jr since MB to the full v5, and from any full version since MB to v5.
No More Dongle!
We’ve only had our software up and running for less than a day, but one of my personal favorite new features for Digitizer v5 is that there is no longer a security dongle, but instead a product key and activation during installation. Over the years, dongles were such a problem for everyone, and I’m so glad they’re gone! This means that the installation process is much easier, and there will be no reason to worry about losing or breaking dongles anymore.
During installation of some embroidery software, the installer will ask you to plug in your dongle. Normally the installer sees the dongle and continues installation, but I’ve seen many times when the dongle isn’t verified, and installation cannot proceed. There is an answer. I can’t say that I can solve everyone’s problem, but if you own Janome or Bernina embroidery software, I just might have the answer you are looking for.
The Device Driver
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The answer to your installation woes is that your computer doesn’t know what the dongle is. Especially if you are installing the embroidery software on a computer that is newer than that of the embroidery software’s system requirements, the information the computer needs to use the dongle just isn’t available.
That information, or hardware instruction, is called a “driver”. The dongle is known as a “device”. If your embroidery software installation stops at dongle verification, you will need a “device driver” that allows your computer to operate your dongle.
Bernina and Janome dongles, as far as I know, are all technically a USB “HASP key”. So we just need to get the proper HASP key drivers from the SafeNet website, and we’ll be good (provided that we correctly install the driver and it’s the right one).
A quick search on Google for “HASP driver” led me to this page. The page offers various downloads, but the one we want is called Sentinel HASP/LDK – Windows GUI Run-time Installer. After accepting a rather lengthy user license agreement, I downloaded a file named Sentinel_LDK_Run-time_setup.zip.
Installation of Driver
The HASP driver is extremely easy to install. First you should close any embroidery software installer that you have running. Ideally you would have all programs closed, and some may even suggest disabling your anti-virus. Next, you’ll want to unzip (extract) the contents of the downloaded zip, and locate a file named HASPUserSetup.exe. This executable file can be run just by double clicking on it. Double click on it, and then follow the instructions. When you’re done, you should have the appropriate HASP driver installed. Your computer may not immediately be able to use the driver, so restart your computer, then try to install your embroidery software. If the red light comes on when you plug in your dongle, that’s an indication that the driver is working.