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Buzz Tools Plus Vs. BuzzXplore® v2
Embroidery Design Management Software & Successor to Buzz Tools Plus
BuzzXplore® retains all of the Buzz Tools® Plus design management features and adds the features most requested by our Buzz Tools Plus users. Machine embroidery hobbyists will enjoy instant 3-D renderings of designs, and file management in an intuitive and powerful Explorer style interface.
You can think of BuzzXplore as the big brother to Buzz Tools Plus. While it retains all of the features of Buzz Tools Plus, it adds many new exciting features and enhancements. Some of the key new enhancements include:
- Safely remove duplicate embroidery designs saving your prefered formats.
- Instant Realistic 3-D Preview - Our realistic 3-D preview is the fastest available so that you can realistically view multiple designs at the same time.
- Faster access to your designs - Just click on folders to display their contents. You can quickly display different folders by just clicking on them.
- Addition of most requested features, so you can now sort, cut, copy, paste, rename, and drag-n-drop.
- Convert to new folder locations while maintaining folder tree structure.
- Easier File Type Filtering - A file filter pane was added so that you can quickly change which designs types are displayed without having to reselect and reload your catalog.
- Automatically create over 500 pre-defined folder categories for easy organizing of your designs.
- Ability to write directly to the BuzzBox (discontinued)
- Ability to write SHV formatted USB drives and floppies
- Drive writing wizard makes it easier to write embroidery drives for supported formats.
Buzz Tools Plus is no longer available for purchase and does not support current versions of Windows. It is only shown to compare features with BuzzXplore.
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Buzz Tools v4 |
BuzzXplore 4 |
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Suggested Retail Prices |
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| Full Version | Discontinued | MSRP $149.95 |
| Upgrade from Buzz Tools Plus v2 or v3 | Not Available | Request Pricing... |
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Upgrade for Buzz Tools Plus v4 OR BuzzXplore Embroidery Edition v1 |
Not Available | Request Pricing... |
Formats Supported |
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| Embroidery Formats Supported | 23 Formats | 29 Formats See List... |
| Graphics Formats | BMP ONLY | 8 Graphics Formats See List... |
| Other Formats | TXT | RTF & TXT |
| Optionally Include ZIP'd Files |
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| Include Multiple Formats in the Same Window |
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| Optionally Filter by File Type |
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Instant update from Files of Type Pane |
Browsing Designs |
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| Remembers Last Catalog |
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| Explorer Style Interface with Drag & Drop |
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| Span Multiple Non-Contiguous Folders | |
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| Toolbar Button Command Access |
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Realistic 3-D Threads |
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Views Possible |
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in Small, Medium, Large and Full Window Sizes |
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in same window |
in pop-up window |
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| Optional Sewing Information |
Size Color Breaks Stitch Order Thread Changes Number of Stitches |
Size Color Breaks Stitch Order Thread Changes Number of Stitches |
Sort Options |
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Always in Folder & File Name Order |
Catalog Mode |
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| Design Slide Show |
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| Fabric Color Settings |
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Embroidery Drive Writing |
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| Embroidery Drive Writing Wizard |
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| Writes USB Drives for Embroidery Machines with USB Flash Drive Port |
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| Writes Compact Flash or ATA Cards | |
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| Writes SHV Formattted Diskettes or USB Drives for use in Designer 1 | |
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Printing |
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| Actual Size Designs |
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| Thumbnail Reports |
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| Table of Contents |
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| List Report with or without File Names | |
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| Optional Report Header |
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Design Management |
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| Create Design Notes |
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| Create Individual Design Graphics |
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with 3-D option |
| Launch Other Programs |
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| Supports Multiple Software Packages on the Same Computer |
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| Converts designs, one at a time or by the hundreds |
to same directory as original only |
to the directory of choice See Note 1 |
| Converts on-the-fly if needed |
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Search |
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| for File Names |
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| for Folders |
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| for Design Notes |
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| Locate Next Folder with Files | |
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| Create Catalog of Search Results |
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| Search in Locations Not Currently Displayed |
Searches Current Catalog Only |
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Organizing Capabilities |
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| Automatically Create a folder tree of over 500 design categories |
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| Delete |
One at a time |
Multiple selected designs |
| Uses Windows Recycle Bin |
deleted files not recoverable. |
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| Cut |
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| Copy |
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| Rename |
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| Extract ZIP'd Designs |
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| Create New Folders |
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| Create New ZIP Archives |
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| Drag-and-Drop |
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| Right Click Menu Pop-ups |
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| Multi-Purpose Design Holding Area |
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ZIP'd File Support |
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| Browse ZIP'd Designs |
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| Extract ZIP'd Designs Wizard |
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| Convert ZIP'd Designs |
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| Drag & Drop to Unzipping Convenience |
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| Create New ZIP Archives | |
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Embroidery Tools |
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| PES Fit Hoop |
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| PES Fix Card Data |
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| PES Convert to Version 1 |
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Extras |
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| Includes BuzzEdit Lite Embroidery Editor |
BuzzEdit Lite V2 |
BuzzEdit Lite 4 |
| Detailed Online Help |
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| Free Knowledge Base Questions and Answers |
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| Free Online Technical Support |
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| Free Program Updates and Bug Fixes See Note |
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Note 1: Embroidery designs can only be converted to other supported embroidery design formats and cannot be converted from graphics formats. For Graphic to Embroidery, Buzz-2-Stitches software or similar is required.
Note 2: Updates with the current version number are free. Upgrades to the next version number have an associated cost unless you qualify for a free upgrade with a recent purchase.