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How Fashion CAD works :-
Using the extensive CAD tools you
create a standard set of patterns for each of
your own garment designs.
Either - by using the blocks provided and
modifying them on-screen.
OR - photographing an existing pattern with a
good digital camera and on-screen digitizing
pattern lines/curves over the top of the image
pixels.
OR - Creating free-form patterns on screen to
required lengths.
Tools ? Measure lengths/distances; Force curves
to be same length on adjacent pattern edges;
move, trim, mirror, copy, scale, etc.....
Save your new "standard" pattern in
your own library of patterns.
Insert grading Control Points (CP's) at the ends
of pattern lines/curves to enable control of
pattern size when grading.
Copy then modify an existing grading file using
XL or text editor. Insert measurement distances
for the distance between each CP.
Open up your "standard" pattern and
grade it to a specific size as defined in your
grading file - ideal for made-to-measure or for
that thin, large or "non-standard"
figure shape. Fashion CAD will
create a graded pattern size (or range of
sizes) in seconds.
Detail each graded pattern with seams, text,
notches, motifs, grain direction, button/zip
locations, etc...
Save each new pattern piece and add to the "project
file" for your garment.
From the project file Fashion CAD will
create the basic marker layout which you
then optimise for minimum wastage of fabric.
Print your layout (or individual pattern pieces)
to a wide format plotter or "tile" in
page sized pieces to your desktop printer.
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Some
alternative approaches to making patterns
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Using
a Digital Camera .
Purchase a good digital
camera (approx 5 Mega pixels and 8X
optical zoom - typically Fuji Finepix S7000,
Nikon 5400 or similar) then position your
existing paper pattern on different
coloured surface and photograph it. The
*.JPG image from the camera is then
transferred to your PC and imported into Fashion
CAD.
Then you "on-screen"
digitize over the top of the image pixels.
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Using
a Scanner .
Use your desk top scanner to
generate an image of a page from a book.
The *.JPG image from the scanner is then
transferred to your PC and imported into Fashion
CAD.
Then you "on-screen"
digitize over the top of the image pixels.
The size of the pattern image does not
matter as Fashion CAD
will make the pattern the size you want. |
Using
Standard Blocks.
You can also start with one
of the 200 blocks supplied with Fashion
CAD
and on-screen modify it to create your
standard pattern. |
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Place Paper pattern
on a wall of different colour
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Select a pattern or
block from a book
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There are blocks for
women, men, girls and boys in
many sizes covering tops, sleeves,
skirts and pants.
Select a
basic block from the 200 blocks
supplied.
- OR - you
can create your own blocks or
standard patterns "freehand"
using the many CAD tools - on
screen.
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Photograph the pattern with a good
digital camera
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Scan the book page with your desk top
scanner
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Import the
digital image into the Fashion
CAD work space.
On screen
digitize pattern lines/curves
over the top of the image pixels
to create your standard pattern.
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- Modify a standard
block using the CAD tools
supplied with Fashion CAD to meet
your unique design requirements
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Insert the Control Points
which determine the pattern size/shape
when grading and create a grading file,
using EXCEL, a text editor or NOTEPAD.
The grading file specifies
the measurement distances between these
Control Points you have inserted into
your standard pattern, and between which
control points you wish to grade..
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Use the Fashion
CAD
grading module to automatically create
your required size, or range of sizes, or
variation of the original pattern. In
this example automatically creating
hipster shorts, at a specific size, from
the standard pants pattern.
The flexibility to achieve
such tasks is inherent within the way Fashion
CAD
has been designed to work.
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Detail your pattern with
automatic (and/or manual) seams, text,
grain information, motif's, notches, etc..
Then manipulate your pattern pieces in
your layout - move, rotate, mirror, nudge,
etc - all the tools to optimise your
layout for minimum wastage. Fashion
CADwill
tell you your percentage of waste.
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Or
"Tile" each
pattern in page sized pieces to your
desktop printer
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Output your patterns
or marker layout
to a wide format plotter
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Or
Output an HPGL format plot
file so you can email it to an external
print service.
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Go to the DEMONSTRATION page to
see audio/visual "movies" of Fashion CAD work
sessions.
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