HoopFile embroidery file conversion EXP viewer
EXPMelco, Bernina

EXP File Viewer

An EXP holds the stitching and nothing else — no colours, no name, no thumbnail. If yours came off a Bernina there was a second file beside it holding the colourway, and this preview cannot see it. What it can tell you is everything about the stitching itself: the path, the number of thread changes, the stitch count and the finished size.

Stitch preview

EXP FILE PREVIEW · SAMPLE DESIGN
Showing a realistic stitch-out sample — choose or drop your own file.
A realistic four-colour floral embroidery sample stitched on warm ivory linen
Sampler · Roundel
Stitches
Threads
Width
Height
Jumps
Avg. density
Thread order

Hoop fit

About this format

.EXP · MELCO, BERNINA

Melco EXP

Melco and Bernina machines read EXP. Like DST it stores movement only; colours travel beside it in a separate INF file, so a converted EXP arrives uncoloured.

What to watch for

The colours you see are ours, and there may be a file that has the real ones

A bare EXP carries no thread information. If this came from a Bernina USB stick, look for a .inf file with the same name in the same folder — the colour list is in there and it opens in any text editor. The palette drawn here is assigned by us so you can tell the blocks apart.

Thread changes are still visible

Even without colours, the file records where the machine stops for a thread change. The block count above is real information: it tells you how many threads the design needs, which is what you actually need to know before starting.

What a preview cannot show you

This is the stitch path, not the finished embroidery — no pull, no density in the hand, no verdict on whether small detail will hold at this size.

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Your file is used only for this conversion and deleted as soon as the download is ready. We keep no copy, and there is no account to store it in.