EQ5 Features

Electric Quilt ® 5 software

Code: A-EQ005
Type: Quilt Design Software
Price: $110.00

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What’s new in EQ5? Rotary cutting charts, strip quilts and one patch charm quilts, new border styles, embroidery designs, an interactive print preview where you position templates on the paper — these are just a few of the many new features you’ll find in EQ5. The complete list of new features is quite long.

1. Opening and converting projects from earlier versions
2. Save a copy of a project
3. Save a project for email
4. Send mail
5. Save the current palette as default
6. Automatically save project file when sketchbook changes (Preferences dialog)
7. Automatically back up project every (x) minutes (Preferences dialog)
8. Remember Open and Save directories (Preferences dialog)
9. Linking libraries of other EQ products (Preferences dialog)
10. Resizable tabbed palette for blocks, motifs, stencils, embroidery, and pictures
11. Resizable tabbed palette for prints and solids
12. New blocks in block library
13. Search by block notecard text
14. Expanded notes field in block and quilt notecards
15. Layout library includes hundreds of ready-made quilt layouts including complicated custom styles
16. Palette library for selecting multiple fabrics at one time
17. Import scanned fabrics in high color
18. Import a picture to use in a quilt
19. Strip quilts—horizontal and vertical
20. Eleven strip styles
21. Clone strips makes design setup time fast and easy, i.e. Bargello
22. Symmetry tool for automatic designs of a horizontal quilt

    Check out this example of the symmetry tool in action

23. Maintain block rotation in quilt when replacing blocks
24. Tape measure tool
25. Eyedropper tool for identifying solid or fabric
26. Improved one-step spraycan tool
27. One patch quilts including 12 ready-made patch styles and 2 custom style with infinite possibilities

    Check out this example of a custom one patch in action

28. Nine new border styles
29. Keep current border setup when starting new quilt
30. Clone borders streamlines design setup time
31. Lock border sliders for easy resizing
32. Borderless quilts
33. Automatic 'virtual border' lets you position blocks outside of quilt temporarily & make scalloped edges
34. Automatic resizing of blocks when center size of custom quilt changes (all layers)
35. Copy and paste blocks (Layer 1 of a custom quilt, Layers 2 and 3 of any quilt)
36. Snap block position to an adjustable grid in a custom quilt
37. Snap block size to an adjustable grid in a custom quilt
38. Keyboard shortcuts for the graph pad enhance moving and resizing blocks
39. Adjustable settings for nudging with the graph pad and sliders bars
40. Ability to delete colors from sketchbook
41. Improved block organization in sketchbook
42. Page setup and fonts adjustment buttons on all print dialogs
43. Print blocks without the patch outline
44. Print quilts without block and patch outlines
45. Print the overall size of the quilt under the header
46. More fabric width choices in yardage estimates
47. Ability to turn off the key block when printing templates
48. Interactive print preview for moving and deleting templates
49. Trimmed seam allowance at sharp corners of templates as you would do during construction
50. Interactive print preview for moving and deleting sections of foundation patterns
51. Rotary cutting charts
52. HTML style help
53. Rotate fabric
54. Help videos

For more illustrated examples, check out this page in our EQ5 Promo.