Line/Arc Outline DAT Tools
With Filestar you get 48 different skills for working productively with Line/Arc Outline DAT (.dat) files.
Embroidery
What a conversion keeps
- Stitches
- Every stitch is kept at its exact position. Nothing is re-digitised.
- Colours
- Kept when the target stores them. DST stores no colours, only where each colour changes, so your machine asks for the threads.
- Trims, jumps and stops
- Kept, and written the way the target machine expects them.
- Objects and lettering
- Design programs keep shapes and text as objects. A machine file only holds stitches, so objects become stitches.
About .Dat
- Name
- Line/Arc Outline DAT
- Extension
- .dat
- Format
- Text
- Category
- Embroidery
- Description
- A text outline format used by industrial sewing machines. Each line holds nine integers: a flag (0 = line, 1 = arc, -1 = end record), a start point, an end point and, for arcs, a centre point and a rotation direction, with coordinates in hundredths of a millimetre and every record terminated by LF CR.
- MIME Type
- text/plain