Advantages of CAD

Advantages of CAD

Increasingly, CAD and CAM are considered as standard system used in the textile industry. These systems provide many advantages to textile designers and textile manufacturers. They are as follows;

·               CAD allows the designer to be more creative

·               Using CAD software, designers can create new sketches more quickly and precisely

·               More accurate patterns with less chance of mistakes can be created

·               Design can be digitally transferred directly into a CAM system

·               It allows designers to graphically test ideas in real time without creating real prototypes

·               Redrawing and Resizing of a garment can be done quickly

·               CAD systems consumes less time

·               CAD and CAM software’s are being operated efficiently with expansion of the graphic memory allocation

·               Every sector of the fashion industry from haute couture to the mass market has felt the impact of CAD

·               CAD has become increasingly important that it has helped to secure a job in fashion design

·               Designers can easily adapt a single design to varying materials and patterns, and build upon and also can alter existing designs to create new pieces

·               CAD cuts down the cost by letting designers view virtual versions of finished products without the need of purchasing materials

·               Designers can view the designs in both 2D and 3D using CAD and can make alterations immediately

·               The designers can view the entire design history of their product

·               CAD allows fashion designers to work smarter, and shortens the time taken between the initial concepts to the finished product.