PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AND APPLICATION

Lesson 13: Role of Design in Fashion

Use of CAD in textile designing

Today, most professional textile designers use Computer Aided Design (CAD) software specially created for this purpose. This has made their task quite easy. The CAD/CAM technology makes possible easy creation of virtually all types of fabric weave and design, helps simulate the created weave/design into the virtual fabric in different colour combinations long before the actual fabric is manufactured. If the designer is content with his virtual creation then the software again offers the necessary parameters in various formats as per his need to weave the created design into actual fabric form. The CAD solution for textile designing has many application areas ranging from simple weave designs to dobby, jacquard designs as well as print and knitting designs. It improves productivity and also adds value to the product for meeting the rapid changing demands of the consumers for fashionable designs.