If I look at the technical improvements of the Continental M7, I think that my 15000 is already outdated. Considering that it has been built since 2008 and has always been upgraded, I am very grateful. A point why I switched from Pfaff to Janome. Not always new machines but by upgrading a very sustainable long service life. But now I am also curious about what is to come.

I don't have the parts to inspect, but it does not look like it would work. The part numbers are very different and the images in the manuals also look different. Below 18 is HP2 and 28 is VD.

can I also attach the foot VD or ED to the foot of the HP2 at the M7 Continental? I have not found a narrow dual transport foot in the delivery. Greetings Manuela

Hello Jim Thanks for your help. I checked with the plastic template and it was centred OK. I also digitised a square to fit the hoop and it stitched OK. I then realised that it was not the last part of the design that I had  stitched that was placed wrong but actually the parts up to that point. They were not centred in the hoop. I had sewn theses first parts yesterday and the part which I thought was wrong was done today. It was actually the right one! So whatever was wrong yesterday seems to have been corrected today!! I then tested it by stitching the first part of the design and the part that I did today and they are lined up perfectly. Panic over. Thanks for your support, Jim.
Betty

Temporarily put the plastic template in the hoop, then open the design but don't stitch it. Check to see if the needle is over the center hole in the template. If it's not try recalibrating the hoop. If you can't get it centered the hoop attachment bracket may twisted. That can happen if the hoop is unable to move during embroidery, either because it hit something or there was a thread jam. In that case you should see your dealer, as the hoop can be mechanically centered in addition to the built-in centering. Since you digitize you can check for this problem yourself. Just digitize a square box along the edges of the hoop (Use a large one like SQ22). Use a simple run line stitch. Hoop some stabilizer and stitch with black thread. Then put the plastic template in the hoop and see how closely the stitch lines fall to the outside lines of the template. If they are skewed then you have found the problem. Leave the design in the machine and alert your dealer so it can be used for testing.

Unfortunately Apple has changed the way an app is shown in "Open in" with iOS 13: If you have multiple apps able to open files with the same file extension, things become tricky. Depending on the way these apps register for a file type and their installation order, they might vanish from the "Open" menu. A temporary fix is sometimes deleting / reinstalling the app. Or copy designs with "Files" in the folder of an app (I think AcuEdit doesn't support this) ... in the long run the developer needs to revise his app.

BTDT, Mattes

The instructions in my previous post were valid when using Safari. If you are using Chrome you’ll be back to the original problem. Unfortunately that’s about all I can come up with from the information you provided.

You won’t be able to use the wifi functions because the 14 isn’t wifi enabled.  But I used the acudesign with dropbox and transferred to USB from Dropbox on my PC.  You can get a USB that fits iPad and pc but it’s a bit big and your machine might struggle to read it.

I have my bobbin warning set to 0.5, from when I get the first warning to it stopping when in embroidery mode, I know I have around 3000 stitches.  If it stops before the end of the design I gauge whether or not there’s visually enough to finish either the colour or end the design.  If I think there’s enough, I turn the bobbin reminder off so I can finish.  I make sure to turn it back on when I change the bobbin

You do NOT need an iPad with the 14000. Because the 14000 does not have WiFi, there is no way to send designs directly to the machine from an iPad. You can, however, get a USB flash drive that connects to both the iPad and the machine to send designs, but if you have a Windows PC you can do the same thing just as easy. AcuEdit and AcuSetter will not be usable with the 14000 because they rely on WiFi communication. Since you are a Windows user you should probably plan on using AcuTools included with the machine. The features are pretty much the same as those in Horizon Link. If at some point you want an iPad for reasons other than the 14000, that's fine, but at this stage it would not do anything for you.

Any idea about how much thread is left on bobbin when you get the warning that there may not be enough thread left to finish design.     I’d like to know approximately how many stitches before I run out of thread.    I wasn’t sure this morning so filled a new bobbin and took out the previous bobbin.  However, it looked like I would have had enough to finish the last 1,000 stitches.     Seems to me to be a big waste of bobbin thread. 

Hi all - I'm new to the forum.  My MC 14000 is shipping to me this week (I'm very excited!).  I've read that except for wifi and some stitches and embroidery designs, it functions just like the 15000.  I was told it has Acufil software installed but will I also be able to use the other 'Acu" programs - AcuSketch, AcuEdit, etc. (I don't even know what they all are).  Also - I don't own any apple products so I assume I need to buy an Ipad to be able to download/upload to the machine.  I found a thread that listed the versions of Ipad to purchase for the best results - is that thread current?  FInally, will I use the Janome Horizon Link for anything?  Sorry for the questions - I want my new machine to be as functional as possible.  Thank you!  

I had that issue. It wasn't the pedal but the power supply inside the machine that powers the foot pedal. It sewed fine with the button. I think the bill was about $280 for fixing it. I tested it by switching pedals with another Janome. 15000 worked fine on my other machine but not the other on the 15000.