CAD in Textile and Fashion Industry
Introduction:
Today textile and fashion industry
has reached new heights by computer aided methods of design and manufacturing.
Computer technology is making waves especially in the fashion design zone. The widespread use of CAD has enable design and
manufacturing firms to be more efficient and competitive. The
state of the art CAD system allows designing sophisticated collections and
presenting any work in the most professional way. These systems provide easy to
use tools that extend designers and manufactures creativity to make products
that one never even thought possible. These unique CAD
systems come with build-in help and demo guidelines and provide vast number of
options to life in design ideas.
What is CAD?
The term CAD is an abbreviation for
'Computer-aided design', In simple words, the use of computers for designing
purposes is referred to as CAD, while CAM refers to usage of computers for the
purpose of manufacturing products.
CAD/CAM is currently in use in several
industries such as architecture, electronics, mechanical and production
engineering, fashion and textiles. There are several kinds of CAD packages
available in the market today, with different kinds of features. Most of the
packages are ready-to-use with a number of graphics, which the user can select
according to his or her requirements.
