If you have the software, minimize the stitch count of the design before you save it to your flash drive or emb machine. I did not know this until recently, had a sweatshirt jacket I took to class and the design was so dense it was bowed upwards. The instructor took me to her computer (we have the same software which for me is 5D, 4D will also do this and many others), you go to Modify and then tell it to use the least amount of stitches possible. In this particular design it took out over 3,000 stitches!!! The design did not look a bit different except it was not bullet proof like before. Hope this helps someone, it sure helped me. And Thank You Roni from Sew What's New in El Paso and Las Cruces!