New Technologies for Fashionable Functional Clothing - Combining Model Design and Innovative Patterning- Juniper Publishers
Journal of Fashion Technology - Juniper publishers Keywords Keywords: 3D-CAD; Parametric human models; Typical posture of the sport Go to Introduction The design process for ready-made textile products has made use of technologies over the last decades which have seen only minor modifications. While the textile industry with its new fibre fabrics and novel textile structures is a source of innovation for many technological developments in other sectors (lightweight construction sector with textile-reinforced plastics, civil engineering and medicine sectors), the process technologies for garment design have remained largely unchanged. Though 2D CAD applications have been brought to perfection to quite an extent, they do not close the digital IT gap between model design and patterning of a product. In order to realise innovative products within ever shorter design cycles that meet high quality requirements at a reasonable cost, it would make sense if...