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Unveiling the Top Ten Garment Pattern Making Software of All Time

December 3, 2023 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed CAD, Cutting, Fashion, Garments, Technology

In the dynamic world of fashion design, the evolution of technology has revolutionized the way garments are conceptualized and brought to life. Garment pattern making software has played a pivotal role in streamlining the design process, fostering creativity, and enhancing precision. Here, we unveil the top ten garment pattern making software of all time.

Optitex: Known for its cutting-edge 2D and 3D pattern-making capabilities, Optitex stands tall as an industry leader. Its intuitive interface and powerful tools make it a favorite among designers and pattern makers.

Gerber Technology AccuMark: With a rich history, AccuMark has been a trusted companion for pattern makers. Its comprehensive suite includes pattern design, grading, and marker making features, making it an all-encompassing solution.

Lectra Modaris: Renowned for its advanced pattern-making tools and 3D prototyping, Lectra Modaris empowers designers to visualize garments in a virtual environment, reducing the need for physical prototypes.

CLO 3D: A game-changer in the industry, CLO 3D specializes in dynamic 3D garment simulation. Designers can visualize the drape and fit of garments in real-time, facilitating efficient and accurate pattern adjustments.

Browzwear VStitcher: Catering to the growing demand for sustainability, Browzwear VStitcher integrates 3D technology with pattern making, allowing designers to minimize waste by visualizing designs in a virtual space.

Tukatech TUKAcad: TUKAcad has earned its stripes for its user-friendly interface and robust pattern making features. It supports a wide range of file formats and offers collaborative tools for seamless teamwork.

PAD System: With a focus on both 2D and 3D pattern making, PAD System stands out for its versatility. It is equipped with tools for pattern grading, marker making, and even automated pattern nesting.

Marvelous Designer: Embraced by the gaming and animation industries, Marvelous Designer transcends traditional pattern making. It excels in creating dynamic 3D clothing for virtual characters, pushing the boundaries of design possibilities.

Wild Ginger Cameo: Ideal for small to medium-sized businesses, Cameo by Wild Ginger offers a comprehensive pattern making solution. It covers everything from pattern design to grading and marker making.

These top ten garment pattern making software options have not only stood the test of time but continue to shape the future of fashion design, ensuring efficiency, precision, and creativity in every stitch and seam. here is only nine names included what would be the 10th one? write down on comment section below.

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Brief discussion of auto marker & making process

November 7, 2019 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed CAD, Cutting, How To, Machinery

Let’s get back to the initial time of cutting department of garments industries there is no facility like auto marker. All the time in bulk cutting they used marker, however; how did they make it? In that case; can you say that in a single sentence? Well let me tell you, they make it manually placing one pattern by by one. Marker is most important element to complete the bulk cutting.

Now question is what is marker in detail ?

Marker is sheet of paper. where every parts of garments are plotted as per layer or cutting plan. Always the marker man makes marker by breakdown a ratio from PO quantity. As per company working policy; this ration also can be provided by cutting planer. Marker maker input the ratio into marker making software to make desire marker for production.

This is the package of garments parts, which let us to enhance the cutting production with limited period of time.

How did they make manual marker?

Question Is little weird, isn’t it? How did they ? Because the manual marker making isn’t used in large production. This is very long process and it’s efficiency isn’t good as in computerized methods.

The maker man makes marker by placing one pattern by one. If maker Missed something he/she need to erase drawn marker and do that again. This is very complicated process & unable to change anything after finish the marker. It’s required much more time and manpower than computerized method.

What is Computerized method?

As I mention earlier, it’s easiest way to place the Patten one by one and check how much efficiency we are achieving n. On the other hand, if we change any placement and see much eefficiency increased or decreased. This is helps a lot the marker man to achieve desire efficiency goal.

Auto marker.

Technology improving rapidly and it’s adding new features everyday to progress CAD and CAM technology. Auto marker is one of them. It’s doesn’t take long time to make any marker. Within two minutes it can be possible to make any marker. which is at least 10 minutes work for a marker man. Almost every top ranking recognizes software company are providing such auto marker facilities with its main software by adding some extra charges.

How it’s work?

As simple as like convert a video files from .avi to .mkv . Just open the software, input the marker, set your desire time, setting and go for process. Done!

Point should be noted. “that the file type doesn’t change at all”. File type remain same. to reduce Fabric wastage all the pieces must placed perfectly

You can also send new created and unplaced marker to nesting directly from your working folder. Using “send to option” as like we send some file to flash drive from computer.
So simple!

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Abbreviation used in this article

PO– products order
CAD– computer aided design
CAM– computer aided manufacturing

Brief discussion of Group marker and its purpose

February 4, 2019 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed CAD, Cutting, Fabric, How To

What is marker?

Marker is sheet of paper where every parts of garments are plotted as per layer or cutting plan. Always the marker man makes marker by breakdown a ratio from PO quantity. As per company working policy; this ration also can be provided by cutting planer. Marker maker input the ratio into marker making software to make desire marker for production. This is the package of garments parts which let us to enhance the cutting production with limited period of time.

As per cutting procedure and product quality issue, the marker man makes different type of marker called group marker & selvage marker. This is very important to go for those special marker if it’s required. Let’s find it out what is group & selvage marker.

Why do we need to make group marker?

Inspection team sometime gets one kind of dying faults called shedding on fabric so they asking for this special marker to avoided shading problem in ready garments. In a single line we can say that this marker is required when the selected cutting prepared fabric has uneven color formation in meter to meter.

What is group marker?

This is one kind of special marker makes as per quality issue suggested by quality inspection team. Most of the factory placed the inspection department on incoming section. When a fabric comes for production than its need to inspection to sustain product quality. And inspection team seat the fabric to store for storage and relax purpose. Finally cutting department received the fabric and go for bulk cutting.

Group maker’s pieces always stick together as much as possible.

How do they makes group maker?

Suppose we are making a marker for a garments where we have to take Back, Front, Sleeve and Moon. It’s required to place all the parts of garments as close as possible. Means all the parts should be placed nearby as a group. This is called group marker.

Group maker always increase the wastage of fabric and reduced the profit for manufacturer.
A good quality fabric can solve this problems.

What is selvage marker?

This is also a group marker but it’s has an extra requirement. All the parts of a garments should be placed length wise but stick together as a group like group marker. This type of marker required when inspection observed selvage shedding issue.

Selvage marker always placed the pieces length wise.

Advantage and disadvantage of group marker.

S/L	Advantage	Disadvantage
1	Reduce the color shading problems on complete garments	Increased the fabric wastage & time.
2	Increased the garments quality as its standard	Increased garments making cost and reduce the profit margin.
3	Easy to bundling after complete cutting process	Required so much time to make group marker
4	Increased the possibility of Good quality garments.	Automatic group marker is not good enough to go for cutting so its need to make it manually by placing garments pieces one by one.
5		Required extra man power to makes lay by different shade wise in cutting department.

Conclusion

It was a little discussion about group marker, if missing something you want to share? If yes; then write down on comment below and share with us. I’ll include it on the article as soon as I get it.

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Marker making & Marker efficiency calculation

January 7, 2019 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed CAD, Calculation, Cutting

Marker is used to cut too many garments pieces at a time (depend on fabric lay) in cutting section. There are a few important matter need to follow carefully during making and during using the marker like marker efficiency, A minor mistake can be the reason to wastage of huge fabric, material and man-power. Most of the time all of those lead by cutting supervisor and coordinator. Fabric layer operator also responsible to do such things and maintain the standard. Let’s go through the matter which is important to follow carefully. Please don’t skip any of those option to avoid misconceptions.

Marker making & it’s efficiency calculation- Indication

You better check each marking on above picture to understand clearly.

1. Marker Name

Every marker has a unique name which provide the style of the marker made from or made for. Doesn’t clear? Name of the marker indicate the style, cutting number, production status and fabric width. Depend on the company policy the name of marker can be changes as per their rule, regulations and needs.

The cutting status of the particular style (Is it Size Set, Pilot or bulk cutting).
Type of garments (Top, Bottom, Bra, panty, shorty, Tanga, Boxer, Etc)
Cutting number (which number of cutting required this marker to complete cut).
PO number (Product order Number)
Make marker base on fabric Actual cut-able Width (This is marker width)

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2. Marker Length

After complete the marker its takes a length. The length means the actual length of the fabric lay should be makes to cut the cutting. Cutting super visor starts making lays by layer man according the marker length.

3. Ratio

I hope you know the meaning of “ratio”. It’s indicate the variation on different size quantity in a marker. Suppose I’m going to make a marker from XS-XL where I need the make ratio according to my PO quantity.

Like this,

XS—S—M—L—XL

1—-2—-1—3—1

Marker making & it's efficiency calculation — Marker making & it’s efficiency calculation

4. Actual fabric width / Marker width

Part of garments need to place in marker where the actual fabric width should be measure by responsible person. They measure the fabric width and make Job Card and send to CAD department to make marker. Job card can be named layer Sheet, Cutting Plan, Cutting Sheet, Cutting Production Plan and many more name. The name always depends on the production environment of any factory.

5. Unplaced / Placed pieces

Total Pieces of current marker show here and let us know how many pieces are placed and unplaced.

6. Utilization or Marker Efficiency.

This is so much serious matter, most of the company constantly monitor this matter. Because maximum utilization means maximum fabric usages. If you are making marker you should have follow this matter to reduce the wastage.

When we do costing consumption; it’s important to check which fabric width is better for costing. Then we try to make marker by various fabric width. Question is how find out which width is perfect?
Perfect width decided by comparing the utilization of different width.

Did I miss something to include in this marker? If yes then you replay on comment box or write me by this mail info@textilestudent.com

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Brief discussion of marker making methods

April 26, 2018 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed CAD, Cutting, Fabric

Brief Discussion of marker making- Feature Image

What are we going to discuss along with marker making methods ?

What is marker in garments?
Brief Discussion of marker making?
Methods of Marker making process?
How computerized method increase profit line in the statistic of some company’s financial data?
Conclusion

On my own preference marker is a package of different size and different part of a garments (should be same fabric) placed in cut able fabric width is called marker. A best marker is defined by its efficiency, isn’t it clear? Let me clarify this matter and its methods.

Example:

Suppose you are responsible to cut 1500 pieces of garments in a pre calculated limited fabric such as 200 kg of fabric. Now you need to make at list 3 marker (based on your cutting instruction). If you able to save fabric more than it was calculated earlier! than you might be able to complete you’re cutting without any fabric short problem. When you maker marker you need to make it as tight as you can place the pieces in a minimum length and width. This is actually efficiency, means how much fabric is utilization on a marker. The efficiency always defined by percentage (Such as 95.08%, 85.84%). After complete placement all pieces in a marker need to print on a paper to lay the fabric layer which is lay by machine or manually.

Basically there are two methods to make marker

A layer man is working on printed marker

Manual Method:

This is the most conventional methods to make marker by pattern master or marker maker. Pattern master took such a long time to make pattern by skating on pattern paper one by one to get appropriate shape of particular garments. After complete the pattern making using paper, pencil, scale and eraser. Marker maker placing garments one pattern beside another pattern. Generally one or two marker maker took 2-3 hours to make a basic length of a maker. This process is so much bothering to correction on marker. Because if marker need to do some correction; marker maker wipes the placed garments pieces and draw no pieces on that place. It’s too much bothering and matter of huge time and man power.

Computerized Method

Computerized Method

Era has changed; manual technology has fade away because of the touch of computerized methods. This is most effective system that reduce too much time and fabric consumption & increase the efficiency of work. In this methods is using most of the large factory who are plays vital role to exert the garments across the world. Because of initial expenses of computerized methods small factory can’t afford to install computerized method. Its required computer, software, plotter, auto cutter machine which is expensive. Though this is expensive but most of the international buyer asking to install computerized methods to increase working efficiency as they can produce garments in minimum cost.

How computerized methods increase profit line in the statistic of some company’s financial data?

You might know the basic way how the production company makes money? Base on time, man power, raw material and many more. Now I should’ve concentrate on the topic how company makes more profit by computerized marker methods. Suppose your company makes manual marker where you appointed 6 marker maker and 4 pattern maker, because they taking too much time to make marker. But; what if! You would be able to complete the task by half of the man power and one-third time? This is the question, when you use computerized marker making methods than you’ll be able to do marker in short time using less manpower more over increase the efficiency of work. This is how computerized methods increase profit line in the statistic of some company’s financial data.

Conclusion

That was my sight of view about marker making methods, what do you think about it? You may share on comment below or send a mail to me by this is Info@textilestudent.com

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What is band knife

April 23, 2018 Engr. Md. Mustak Ahmed Accessories, Cutting, Fabric, Machinery

What are we going to discuss about Band Knife:

What is band knife?
Brief discussion.
Feature .
Advantage.
Disadvantage.
Conclusion

Depending on cutting facility and cutting purpose the cutting operation complete by various way. There are too many cutting process used in garments industry, but today I’m going to discuss about band knife machine and its process. Which is used to cut mostly small pieces of garments specially lingerie item. Band knife work with an endless flexible knife like a loop.

Band knife is round flexible functional by three or more than three pulley are powered by a high RPM (revolutions per minute) electric motor. Based on material properties; the speed of knife can be adjust by machine operator. Small pieces of garments can be easily cut by band knife without making any technical fault in pieces. Operator required to push the fabric lay through the knife to complete the cutting operation. Depending the operator expertise garments pieces can be cut with 100% accuracy.

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Feature of Band knife machine:

An endless knife cut the fabric continuously which is run by three or more than three pulley.
All the pulley are powered by high speed electric motor.
The thickness round blade is narrower than straight knife.
This Machine is smoother than straight knife.
Large table required than the lay length.
Block pieces of fabric required to cut fabric by this machine.
Air blower helps the operator to move the fabric lay in various direction.
This methods of cutting process as like as saw mill methods.
In this band knife methods fabric is movable but the machine is stationary.
Automatic grinder used to make sharper the edge of knife during cutting.

What is band knife Machine

Advantage of band knife:

Very effective than straight knife to cut small pieces of garments.
Low space required for installation this machine.
Automatic grinder used to make sharper the edge of knife during cutting.
Intensity of accident is very low.
Possible to cut thin layer with 90 degree angle.
Air blower helps to smoothly handle and cut the fabric layer.
Only one operator can fully control a machine with fully operational.
Perfect to cut tiny pieces in lingerie like center front, cradle, wing, gusset etc. & in knit garments collar, placket, pocket, cuff etc.

Disadvantage of band knife:

Operator required to move around the machine to handle the fabric layer.
band knife (side View)
Without proper marker the fabric wastage is high.
Not possible to cut large length garments due to table length (Such as night dress, Long dress)
Fabric is not possible to cut directly.
High weight layer could be problem to smooth and perfect cut.
Too many marker required for large production (Long length marker can’t be handle or cut by this machine).

Conclusion

That was my sight of view, what do you think about it? If I missed something to share in this article you may put it on comment box below or send a mail to me by this is Info@textilestudent.com

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