There is currently a huge push from designers to get their hands on the newest tools available to them. Many new designers who have grown up with technology and have gone through college learning about using the latest and greatest for design and are recruited by companies that have been slow to get up to speed on the newest software. These designers then get into a job and are handed basic design tools like Adobe ® Photoshop and Adobe ® Illustrator, which are great for certain design work, but are not apparel specific design software.
CAD/CAM software is a HUGE buzzword because all these new designers want the tools that help them do their tasks to the best of their creative abilities. Thus, they hunt for the proper CAD/CAM solution facilitating tools and features for the specific type of design work they are doing. They seek the Software that facilitates:
Improving quality, product functionality and production pace
Assistance to designers build designs right from the outset of the creative process till it ends into a realistic simulation of fabric. These can also be placed onto a garment giving an idea as to how it would look on a model. Be it print design, knit or woven, all of it becomes possible with Pointcarre.
The software has been specially developed to suit Textile and Surface design enabling designers to have an expertise in this area in no time at all. The solution comes in at a time when there is a growing need to modernize the industry and cut costs without having to compromise on the quality of work. Tailored solution from Pointcarre allows designers to master the skills of developing, designing and implementing almost any art that they choose to fabricate. Besides, an exclusive texture mapping and embroidery software will also help couturiers visualize their designs even before it is produced. As the technical dobby and jacquard software have proven potential to translate the most complex woven fabrics into technical data which can be availed by mills to get a specific design.
In all, they motivate designers to create and visualize motifs through a preview of realistic simulations, giving an insight to what the fabric would actually resemble. This will save making initial investments unless the design is perfected.
Easy Compatibility
The software offers an open format file, which can be transferred into any PLM or PDM software for Tech Packs and is apt for application in 3D simulation software like that of OptiTex. Adoption of the solution would give designers an added advantage of revising the same for use in other off-the-shelf products and of displaying their designs across the globe.
Return On Investments
It is a combined cost saver package as it fastens approval process, reduces design and editing time, lowers the cost of sending packages back and forth for approval and minimizes time stipulation for knit downs of weave samples.
For example: Some of our clients relied on outside design services to make the images created by their own designers and just put them into repeats and do multiple colorways on them. The cost was at $500 to $600 a design. They were spending $250,000 a year on overnight packages alone because the studio they used was in one state and they were in another. Every package was sent overnight express delivery. There has been an immediate response on the approval process from head designers with all the work being done in-house, ranging from adoption of in-house designing systems to working with the same designers
We have been developing such software solutions for the apparel, textile and home furnishings industries, and have recently added software for the wall covering, wrapping paper and a host of other industries based on the fact that our software lends itself to many other types of design work.
It is all being driven by these new designers who are immersed in new technology and have grown up with it all their lives. They understand the tremendous effort required and time consumed in tasks like reducing the colors of a design, matching colors electronically, building the repeats, editing designs into knits and woven and creating boards and minibodies for the creation of the line. They know the solutions exist, and want them. They understand that software, like Pointcarre, will help them get the task done faster and easier. The added technology increases creativity while decreasing design time, time to approvals and time to market. |
