International Textile

Role of softwares for textile design in fashion industry

CAD softwares are used in coloration & designing.Datacolor software provides the facility of transfering digital sketches through internet.Datacolor  using Imagemaster helps from designer to dyer.Pantone provides software for colour mixing/seperation..Hexachrome is a 6 colour process printing system..Photoshop are applied widely.Scotweave software enables the designer to create new designs & immediately the designer can see in the screen.CAD provides real stimulation of a weave done in looms.It helps to produce blankets for a coming season. Ace Technologies Plaid Maker enables the designer to create woven fabric on weaves like Plain,Herringbone,Twill.Viable Systems software enables designer to create jacquard fabric designs.Monarch  Design Systems allows designers to generate colour prints,weaves ,it also has a stored library of different weaves from its database software.Surfacemagic & Weavemaker is versatile in designers knowledge on symmetry it provides information on harness,number of colours ,weave construction.It acts as a virtual dobby loom.SurfaceMagic helps the designer in surface images,jacquard designs.Weave Maker features automatic pattern generation,loom variations,repeats,prints,analysis of full fabric float correction,3Dimage viewer.Nedgraphics software provides texture mapping facility..Star Fabric Development Kit utilities of scanning & imaging. Stork CAD software provides optimal color separation,imaging of the design created..There are range of softwares in digital printing are simulation,color mixing ,short run productions matching to bulk,step&repeat,colour images atlas.Sophis Group textile printing software lets customer view colours & pattern before production Wonderweaves system provides woven fabric design studio ,Printed fabric design studio ,Woven Jacquard design studio,Yarn development & visualisation ,Colour development archiving & coding,3 dimensional texture mapping studio.. As companies are focussing more on design process ,reducing time softwares are helpful.