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Open a longarm design file in any of 12 formats and download it in all 12 — free, in your browser, nothing uploaded anywhere.
Everything happens in your browser — the file never leaves your computer.
Every computerized longarm reads its own pantograph format — QLI on Statler, HQF on Pro-Stitcher, IQP on IntelliQuilter, QCC on Quilt-EZ, PAT on Innova, and so on — and until 2026 converting between them meant buying desktop digitizing software. NiftyFifty's pantograph converter is a free browser tool that reads and writes 12 machine formats. All of them describe the same thing — a continuous stitching line measured in inches — so a design converted here stitches identically on any machine. Files are processed locally in the browser and never uploaded.
Drop the file into the converter above. It reads QLI (Statler), HQF (Pro-Stitcher), IQP (IntelliQuilter), QCC (Quilt-EZ), PAT (Innova), BQM (Bernina Q-matic), CSQ (CreativeStudio), DXF, PLT (QBot), TXT (PC Quilter), CQP (CompuQuilter), and SSD (Side Saddle), then gives you a zip containing the design in all 12 formats. It's free and runs entirely in your browser.
No. The converter runs completely in your browser — the file is read locally on your computer and never sent to a server.
Longarm machines each read their own format, and designs are usually sold as a multi-format zip. If you have a design in one format and a machine that needs another — say a QLI from a Statler library and a Pro-Stitcher that wants HQF — a converter saves you buying digitizing software just for this. Historically that meant a paid desktop program.
The stitch path is preserved as drawn. All 12 formats describe the same thing — a continuous line in inches — so the converted file stitches the same design. Curved-arc encodings from some formats are flattened to fine line segments, which every machine accepts.
Encrypted and vendor-locked formats can't be converted — that's a restriction the vendor built in on purpose, and this tool doesn't attempt to break protection. Every open format we could document is supported.