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Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by zimpenfish »

weinzierl wrote: post #8
hotfix_cowboy wrote: post #5

If I had a 3D model of my body and measurements, I could send that to a designer for custom tailored clothing, which could then be cut and stitched by a 3rd party. Does a service like this already exist? Maybe an IPad is sufficient precision for the 3D model.

I've been toying with this for 20 years and we've come a long way. In the beginning it was all hand modeling. It helped a bit that I did finite element analysis professionally at that time which involved a lot of 3D modeling as well. About 15 years ago there was a small hype where photographers offered the service of 3D printing small figurines of you and your loved ones. I found one that gave me the 3D data. It was…

> Especially since Polycam can do photogrammetry now besides the LIDAR scans

It's pretty good if you can get a decent coverage of photos. I did a scan the other day of a microphone holder and, apart from some thin gaps I couldn't get a good angle on, it came out well enough to see what was going on (it was warped).

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by ingenieros »

Animats wrote: post #4

The main package used for clothing design is Clo. It's a full 3D design program with cloth physics. You get to see full outfits on simulated models. There's also Marvelous Designer, which is Clo minus the part that outputs cutting patterns. That's used to create clothing for animation.

The big players in this field are actually Optitex and Gerber AccuMark. Lookup any pattern making job from the likes of adidas, Patagonia or Arc’teryx and they require knowledge in one of those two.

The reason why CLO is becoming so popular in recent years is because they’ve been really smart about striking partnerships with fashion schools and offering their software at steep student discounts. I once tried to get a price quote from a regional Optitex rep and they just shrugged me off because they only deal with BIG companies.

If there ever was an industry ripe for disruption it would be fashion. The incumbents have been resting on their laurels for decades so it’s nice to see upstarts like CLO trying to apply the Final Cut Pro formula to dethrone them.

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by jeffalyanak »

hotfix_cowboy wrote: post #5

If I had a 3D model of my body and measurements, I could send that to a designer for custom tailored clothing, which could then be cut and stitched by a 3rd party. Does a service like this already exist? Maybe an IPad is sufficient precision for the 3D model.

Beatrice Forms does this using photogrammetry:

https://beatriceforms.com/

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by viraptor »

hotfix_cowboy wrote: post #5

If I had a 3D model of my body and measurements, I could send that to a designer for custom tailored clothing, which could then be cut and stitched by a 3rd party. Does a service like this already exist? Maybe an IPad is sufficient precision for the 3D model.

Are you thinking of dresses specifically? If not, there's a lot of places where you can submit measurements you do yourself with a tape. It works pretty well for shirts/trousers/suits. I've used http://tailorstore.com/ but there's a few others. I feel like an app for scanning would be more tricky / unnecessarily complicated.

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by KaiserPro »

hotfix_cowboy wrote: post #5

If I had a 3D model of my body and measurements, I could send that to a designer for custom tailored clothing, which could then be cut and stitched by a 3rd party. Does a service like this already exist? Maybe an IPad is sufficient precision for the 3D model.

> Does a service like this already exist?

Its how the french navy (used/experimented with) to do uniforms.

You'd stand in a room, they'd scan you using structured light (I think, this was ~2000) then they'd extract the key measurements. However, instead of just in time tailoring, they had a bunch of trousers/shirts/tops/jackets in common sizes based on the population, rather than pattern type.

This allowed quick mix and match without manual measuring. It also allowed sub sizes to be used

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by llm_trw »

ingenieros wrote: post #15
Animats wrote: post #4

The main package used for clothing design is Clo. It's a full 3D design program with cloth physics. You get to see full outfits on simulated models. There's also Marvelous Designer, which is Clo minus the part that outputs cutting patterns. That's used to create clothing for animation.

The big players in this field are actually Optitex and Gerber AccuMark. Lookup any pattern making job from the likes of adidas, Patagonia or Arc’teryx and they require knowledge in one of those two. The reason why CLO is becoming so popular in recent years is because they’ve been really smart about striking partnerships with fashion schools and offering their software at steep student discounts. I once tried to get a…

>Gerber AccuMark

I love the fact that the big seller for Gerber until the 1980s was the variable scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCslpB-JVU

Re: Dressmaking CAD

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Post by gregoryl »

KaiserPro wrote: post #18
hotfix_cowboy wrote: post #5

If I had a 3D model of my body and measurements, I could send that to a designer for custom tailored clothing, which could then be cut and stitched by a 3rd party. Does a service like this already exist? Maybe an IPad is sufficient precision for the 3D model.

> Does a service like this already exist? Its how the french navy (used/experimented with) to do uniforms. You'd stand in a room, they'd scan you using structured light (I think, this was ~2000) then they'd extract the key measurements. However, instead of just in time tailoring, they had a bunch of trousers/shirts/tops/jackets in common sizes based on the population, rather than pattern type. This allowed quick mix…

They had these out in shopping centres in Australia, but they didn't last very long. It's a hard sell, I think you needed to get down to underwear in the thing?

Dug out an article, didn't read, but the picture is the device I recall.

https://www.techguide.com.au/news/gadgets-news/new-3d-body-s...

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