CAD Pattern Making and 3D Modeling (Optitex)

Technology is currently playing a significant role in the fashion industry. Technology helps make pattern making easy and efficient in managing fabric Again, technology is making it easier to produce accurate designs that boost the production process. There is much software, but here are the most common in the industry: Lectra, Gerber Accumark, Optitex, and Clo3D.

In pattern making or product development, patterns need to be corrected many times to achieve a perfect fit and design, which eventually adds up to cost and time before the final sample is achieved. When done manually, this process is much longer, while CAD programs can speed up the pattern developments and allow for many corrections quickly. Additionally, the option of virtual prototyping to drape/fit the garment with a virtual model eliminates some need for sampling (Singh, 2017).

Ondagan and Endogan (2006) agreed that the significant purpose of CAD is for fabric waste reduction. These technologies help the product developer, the pattern maker, and the sample maker. The sample maker saves time, energy, and money, as the physical fabric and papers will no longer be wasted while doing the sample over and over again whenever patterns are altered. Therefore, technology in fashion contributes to fabric waste elimination in different ways in the fashion industry.