Tajima and Adobe Unveil Seamless Embroidery Workflow Integration

At PI Apparel Europe 2025, held at the scenic Lago Maggiore just outside Milan, Adobe and Tajima, a global leader in industrial embroidery, showcased a groundbreaking advancement set to transform the fashion and apparel prototyping process. 

Adobe Substance 3D, a complete suite of smart creative applications and high-end content known for enabling hyper-realistic 3D design and visualization, has now taken a significant leap forward in the customization and production space. Through an Embroidery Generator developed a few years ago in Substance 3D Sampler, Adobe is enabling their users to design complex embroidery designs in 3D, by quickly converting images or graphics into customizable, hyper-realistic embroidered patches, that can be applied directly onto virtual designs — allowing for stunning, lifelike rendering of embroidered textures and patterns. 

However, the real breakthrough lies in what happens next. 

Bring Virtual Embroidery to Life

In a first-of-its-kind embroidery workflow integration, users can now transfer their designs from Adobe Substance 3D Sampler directly into Tajima DG17 embroidery software — eliminating the need for time-consuming manual digitization. With just a click, the artistic embroidery effects applied within the virtual design are instantly converted into an embroidery-ready file. 

Furthermore, users can specify the type of fabric on which the embroidery will be stitched, enabling the software to automatically apply optimized settings for that material. The result: a high-quality, production-ready embroidery file, perfectly tailored for Tajima’s industry-leading embroidery machines. 

This exciting and powerful collaboration between Adobe and Tajima simplifies the design-to-production pipeline, bringing creators closer to real-world samples with unprecedented speed and precision. By merging Adobe’s visual innovation with Tajima’s embroidery technical expertise, the partnership marks a pivotal step forward in the evolution of digital-to-physical textile workflows. 

The Tajima DG Exporter plug-in for Substance 3D Sampler is now available for download and compatible with Substance 3D Sampler 5.0.3.

A special thank you to Studio Auriga for their collaboration, technical expertise, and equipment in demonstrating and testing DG17’s Adobe Substance 3D design import capability.

Contact your local Tajima Software distributor to request an offer for Tajima DG17. 

Resources

To see Adobe Substance 3D embroidery workflow in action and take a glimpse at the workflow enabled by Adobe and Tajima partnership, watch the webinar here: 

https://substance3devents.com/collection-creation 

Learn more about Adobe Substance 3D:  

https://business.adobe.com/products/substance3d-business.html 

Learn more about Tajima DG17: 

https://www.tajimasoftware.com/tajima-dg17