Fashion CAD - Software

Pattern making for garment manufacture.
(including pattern design, grading, detailing, marker layout and CAD drafting and plotting.)

How does Fashion CAD work ?  

1. You create a standard set of patterns for each of your own garment designs:    
Either - by using the blocks provided and modifying then 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 - Create 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.
2. Insert grading Control Points (CP's) at the ends of pattern lines/curves to enable control of pattern size when grading.
3. Copy then modify an existing grading file using XL or text editor. Insert measurement distances for the distance between each CP.
4. 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.
5. Detail each graded pattern with seams, text, notches, motifs, grain direction, button/zip locations, etc...
6. Save each new pattern piece and add to the "project file" for your garment.
7. From the project file Fashion CAD will create the basic marker layout which you then optimise for minimum wastage.
8. Print your layout (or individual pattern pieces) to a wide format plotter or "tile" in page sized pieces to your desktop printer.  

Place Paper pattern on a wall of different colour	Select a pattern or block from a book	Select a basic block from the 200 blocks supplied.
Photograph the pattern with a good digital camera	Scan the book page with your desk top scanner	Modify a standard block using the CAD tools supplied with Fashion CAD to meet your unique design requirements

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.

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..
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.
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 CAD will tell you your percentage of waste.
Or "Tile" each pattern in page sized pieces to your desktop printer		Output your patterns or marker layout to a wide format plotter		Or Output an HPGL format plot file so you can email it to an external print service.

Go to the DEMO page to see audio/visual "movies" of Fashion CAD work sessions.

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