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Reach CAD for Apparel

In a business that is driven by continuously-changing trends and styles, investing, in systems and technology is a necessity. Technology can keep you competitive in every phase of the fashion industry. Software packages like REACH CAD and REACH Fashion studio have radically changed the relationship of the designer to the finished product.  By automating the design process, they compress the entire fashion life cycle. They give the designer the flexibility to quickly create several variations of a single idea. Design automation simplifies the endless repetition that goes into producing, annotating and revising size specifications, technical sketches, costing and even cutting tickets. CAD/Design automation streamlines the entire product development process.
Features in CAD and fashion Studio

3D Product Visualization: Create designs in an entirely digital environment, thereby shortening the design cycle. This feature enables photo-realistic 3D rendering of designs, colors, surfaces, textures and patterns.

Texture Mapping: Preliminary ideas can be directly scanned on to the software and then manipulated all within the application. Utilizing simple and intuitive tools, Texture Mapping offers the opportunity to preview designs, on a model or in real life. More so, the materials and fabrics used in the design will act exactly as they would if they were real.

Color Reduction: Starting with either a scanned picture, fabric, or an imported picture file format, you can precisely reduce millions of pixels down to just the color you specify. REACH Fashion Studio features an advanced color separation function which helps the designer quickly judge the color separation.

Colorways: Easily create your season's palettes and then simply drag and drop into place. You can drag colors from multiple palettes to the design, drag between designs, the possibilities are endless! You can also automatically make as many colorways on the screen as you like, making it easy to compare and reserve for later use.

Color Communication: With a single click it is possible to find the nearest REACH shade of any color scanned, or imported. Colors can be personalized using RGB, CMYK and Hue , Lighting and Saturation by mixing or entering the values.

Design & Repeat: This textile and surface designing tool can create all types of repeats. This includes converting design into horizontal or vertical repeats and many more. Any changes take place immediately over multiple repeats.

Fabric Design: Fabric design creativity can be quickly translated into reality. It allows the designer to scan, import or create any kind of fabric from dobby, knit or leatherfabrics in the software itself with real texture effects.

Spec. Creation: With Spec. Creation the user is able to ensure product information integrity. Specifications can be detailed in order to achieve the best possible manufacturing sample early on. Blocks of technical drawings can be stored and later re-combined to make new designs.  

Pattern Engineer: Pattern Makers can use powerful CAD tools to draft patterns from scratch or modify existing blocks with grading information to create new patterns faster and accurately. Pattern Engineer makes it easy to create various types of notches, darts, pleats, seams, drill holes and internal contours.

Grader: Grader enables the user to grade any pattern either with grade rules on points or global rules on entire piece/style that are previously stored, or newly defined. All parts of the pattern, notches, pleats, darts, drill holes, and any internal contours may be graded. Grader also allows the use of specification sheets for grading, as well as enables the creation of a variety of size ranges.

Nester /Marker Planner: Powerful, automatic and interactive tools enable the user to create fast and efficient markers, that not only maximize productivity but minimize labor and fabric costs. Nester /Marker Planner has advanced features which allow fabric to be displayed on the marker, which is the same as used in Pattern Engineer. This module has advanced stripes and plaid matching functions

Apparel industry has been continuously striving to improve the operations in all possible manners. Minor mistakes from the designing department in terms of parts selection, grain, understanding fabric-type, etc. can lead to substantial losses.  Prior to the marker making stage, the various patterns constituting a garment in the various sizes in an assortment has to be accurately constructed.

CAD enables apparel companies to create flawless patterns with construction and balance detailing, patterns for complete assortment, and the tightest markers. CAD solution help you choose to be efficient and effective, neither or both. This solution makes you efficient as it produces results with least waste. So while looking at ways to increase your productivity and reduce waste you can concentrate on best areas where you can make progress. 

CAD is the software tool for pattern engineering, grading and marker planning for minimizing fabric consumption and supplying the sewing sections with accurate cut parts.  CAD incorporates styling and functional features like dart intake, pleats turning and balance, grain line adjustments, flipping of patterns, pitch point placements, drill marking, size and order representation, fabric width adjustment, cutting of checks, plaids and stripes, garment balance, n-way size combinations, seam allowance adjustments, grading, nesting, etc. with user-friendly controls and applications. Various considerations go into making the tightest possible marker.

Benefits of CAD

  •    Compress your product cycle times substantially
  •    Increase your profit margins by minimizing fabric consumption
  •     Save Pattern development time by automating the pattern maker
  •     Reuse and modify existing patterns
  •     Raid and easy grading by applying mathematical rules
  •     Minimize errors by enabling collaboration between various relevant workgroups

REACH Technologies, a leader in information technology solutions for global sewn products industry, offers pre-packaged products, custom solutions and consulting services to the clients. REACH solutions add significant and sustainable advantages to clients enabling them to navigate today’s turbulent market place. Built using best –of-breed technology platforms, solutions are open, robust and scalable. Well suited for both large and small organization, REACH solutions enable companies to cut  costs, increase revenue, enhance quality, retain customers, and assist in anticipating opportunities by creating a real-time extended enterprise.
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