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just tried it in a flatpak on ubuntu which is buggy as hell
You could try Fedora. I find it to be less buggy than Ubuntu.
I mean the flatpak is buggy.
Dressmaking CAD
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#32All these OSS projects are cool but it's worth noting that the industry standard for this is Gerber: https://www.lectra.com/en/products/gerber-accumark-accunest-... My mother was a "grader" and her workflow was actually very similar to software engineering. A designer would give her sketches of a garment. She would figure out how to build it - break it down to individual pieces of cloth and construction steps that th…
At the risk of meandering very far off topic.....
When qualifying a new semiconductor process, it is common to do "schmoo" testing, that is to intentionally drive the process steps away from nominal temperature, vapor pressure, doping levels, process times, etc, etc, in order to characterize the expected yield with variations from nominal conditions.
When my wife was in General Mills' Betty Crocker division, it was common to characterize the behavior of a new cake mix formulation under varying conditions to account for inaccurate measurement of added liquids, variation in the size of eggs added by consumers, variation in home oven temperatures, variation in cook time, consumers adding milk instead of water, etc.
I found the parallels fascinating.
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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
This is probably a dumb question, but am I correct in assuming that Gerber Scientific (which I think is responsible for AccuMark), Gerber knives, and Gerber baby products are all from completely unrelated companies? Or is there some long-ago connection between them?
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#34If 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 saw a startup working adjacent to this, https://www.thefittingroom.tech, they tell you what size to order based on phone/tablet scans.
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#35Marvelous Designer has been used in the VFX and Game industries for quite a few years now: https://www.marvelousdesigner.com Wētā FX used it on The Hobbit for example: https://www.facebook.com/marvelousdesigner/photos/james-moor...
Epic Games also announced integrated of Unreal Engine with Marvelous Designer for UEFN and other games built in UE, this may likely drive more usage as well:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/metahuman-comes-to-u...
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/marvelous-designer-free-on...
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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...
> I think you needed to get down to underwear in the thing Yes, you had to be in nothing but underwear, which was funny because when my dad tried it, we were in the middle of a massive convention centre.
Glad I wasn't making that up Hah! I think the main mistake they made was throwing these in the middle of shopping centres (similar placement to vending machines). If they had managed to get them integrated into a store, and made users feel safe, it might have been more successful.
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#38If 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.
Apparently the conversion process from scan -> measurements -> _cool_ business suits is non-trivial, a Japanese apparel EC once tried(~2018) and ended up with suit textured human meat wraps. I don't know if the issue was purely technical or were there any internal/external conflict that exacerbated the problem, though.
https://mezzoforte-lounge.com/challenges/zozo-2bsuit-order-r...
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>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
This is probably a dumb question, but am I correct in assuming that Gerber Scientific (which I think is responsible for AccuMark), Gerber knives, and Gerber baby products are all from completely unrelated companies? Or is there some long-ago connection between them?
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#40Valentina too. https://gitlab.com/smart-pattern/valentina
Awesome project. Thanks