Thanks for all your help and replies, I'm going to trial them before I buy @Morgan thats a great idea to get training as I fear my brain would frazzle trying to teach myself, are there many places that offer this do you know?
There is an excellent 3 level online course. It is John Deer's Digitizers Dream Course.
If you buy Hatch through his website, you get some extra bits and pieces and I think they include the first level of the course.
Even if paying full price without discounts, the course is well worth the money.
If you have any of the other software packages tge course covers, I think you pay for sll three levels.
The course covers Embrilliance and Hatch among the 10 different packages.
It is a course about digitising and creating machine friendly designs whichever programme is used and not just which button to press.