Best Fashion Design Software for Windows
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What is Fashion Design Software for Windows?
Fashion design software provides fashion companies and designers with the creative tools to plan, design, create, produce and sell fashion products. Compare and read user reviews of the best Fashion Design software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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PolyPM
Polygon Software
PolyPM connects creative design with production using an integrated apparel PLM built for fashion brands. Designers and technical teams manage sketches, specs, CAD files, grading, fit details, materials, and revisions inside one platform. Pattern tools, color/fabric matching, and print/cut workflows ensure smooth handoff from design to development and manufacturing. By linking PLM to the apparel ERP, PolyPM keeps teams aligned on fit, quality, cost, and materials throughout the entire product lifecycle.Starting Price: 200$/month/user -
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Jesta Vision Suite
Jesta I.S.
In business for more than 50 years, Jesta I.S. is a global developer and provider of enterprise software solutions for retailers, e-tailers, wholesalers, and brand manufacturers specializing in apparel, footwear and hard goods. Jesta’s retail and supply chain suites are anchored by our master data foundation, which collects, manages and organizes your business data in a central repository to instantly unify your business and kickstart its digital transformation. The Vision Suite is a leading, organically engineered, cloud-based, end-to-end solution that unifies and optimizes back/front-end and supply chain operations from trade/product/demand management to merchandising ERP, Point of Sale and Order Management /Omnichannel. It eliminates the inefficiencies of disjointed applications, and provides real-time visibility of enterprise inventory, cross-channel orders, and AI-driven CRM data. It accommodates various brands, currencies, and languages. -
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CorelDRAW
Alludo
Designed with your productivity in mind, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite is trusted by millions of graphics pros and design teams around the globe for endless creativity with no time wasted. This fully-loaded toolkit for professional vector illustration, layout, photo editing, typography, and collaboration is equal parts creative and efficient: the perfect recipe for delivering breathtaking design projects, fast, on Windows, Mac, iPad, web, and mobile. Our latest subscription-only update delivers a reimagined image adjustments workflow, building on a real-time, non-destructive photo editing experience, and new design templates for more creative possibilities. Be successful sooner with an optimized, personalized in-app learning experience, and time-saving tweaks to your favorite features. Affordable and ever-advancing, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is committed to providing ongoing value to subscribers. -
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Adobe Illustrator
Adobe
Adobe Illustrator is an industry-standard vector graphic design software solution used to create beautiful logos, drawings, icons, typography, and illustrations for web, print, video, and mobile. Purpose-built for photographers, designers, students, and small to medium-size businesses, Adobe Illustrator enables users to create graphic designs for brand corporations, general merchandise packagings, billboards, bus wraps, clothing lines, and virtually any business or industry. The solution comes with thousands of royalty-free stock art and can be integrated with video and animation apps such as Premiere Pro, Animate CC, and After Effects.Starting Price: $9.99/month/user -
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Digital Fashion Pro
Harper Arrington
Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design Software is a super easy, complete fashion designing system, consisting of hundreds of customizable clothing templates, hundreds of real digital fabrics, materials & textures, button & zipper templates, apparel effect & stitch simulation templates, fashion graphics, model poses, fast track step by step video training & eGuide, plus includes a free graphics editing program. These features work in harmony, giving you the power and freedom to create! Take your product development to the next level. The DFP Style Blast Edition (25 items) also includes The Official Step by Step Guide to starting your own clothing line + list of over 250 clothing manufacturers/fashion suppliers that can make your clothing. Get Everything You Need to Start Your Clothing Line! Men and Women Vector Clothing Templates Featuring basic fronts and backs of: Pants, Shorts, Tanks, Tees, Polos, etc.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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ConceptDraw DIAGRAM
Computer Systems Odessa
It is a powerful vector editor on Mac and PC enriched with professional stencils and icons for creating floor plans, dashboards, flowcharts, graphs, charts and illustrations. Its compatibility with other file formats as PDF, PNG, SVG, EPS, VSDX makes it versatile. Drawing shapes, layers, grids, rulers, connectors along with smart maps, hypernotes, presentation mode can save your time. It sells on a lifetime basis with no annual fees.Starting Price: $199.00/one-time/user -
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NedGraphics
NedGraphics Software
NedGraphics™ is the leading provider of textile design and CAD/CAM software solutions for the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and other textile markets. Our products allow designers to exercise unlimited creative freedom while improving efficiency, productivity, time to market, and accuracy to create production-ready artwork. NedGraphics' solutions play an important role in promoting sustainability through digitization by optimizing product development workflows, eliminating design errors, and reducing sampling costs. NedGraphics provides tools for print, woven, and knitted fabric design, carpet and tuft, color management and calibration, virtual product visualization, storyboard presentation, merchandising, and more. The portfolio also includes a collection of professional textile and apparel design plug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop®, named 'NedGraphics for Adobe®’. NedGraphics is part of FOG Software Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU) -
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PatternMaker
PatternMaker Software
PatternMaker is the primary program and is used to create patterns. Once patterns are created they can be exported into digital files that can be shared like any file on the Internet. There are different levels — versions — of PatternMaker. MacroGen is the program that creates the exported files. The exported files are called macros. The macros have the ability to accept different measurements so the pattern can be adjusted to fit. Macros are executed by PatternMaker. (Many computer programs have macros that exist in a digital, sharable format. For example, Microsoft Word and Excel have the ability to export macros for sharing.) So, to run a macro you need the PatternMaker program. Collection Creator combines many different patterns that are in macro form into a collection. A collection might be a group of summer dresses. -
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Rhino 8
Robert McNeel & Associates
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware. Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine. Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry. Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software. Read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES files. Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software. Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed. Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.Starting Price: $995.00/user -
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Gemini FashionSTUDIO
Gemini CAD Systems
FashionSTUDIO is the flexible CAD solution for fashion industry pros and enthusiasts who seek to handle the garment production puzzle fast, easy, using one complete solution. Gemini FashionSTUDIO knows how to build the patterns you need with just a few clicks. You can start by using the free product library and make alterations. When producing decorated garments with FashionSTUDIO, you can save up to 30% fabric and ink, 40% decorating time, and obtain up to 98% efficiency when cutting difficult print-patterns. All these thanks to all included features and Add Ons. FashionSTUDIO’s eCommerce integrations allow you to develop and visualize production-ready models on a 3D Avatar. Then send them to the your eCommerce platform or straight to the production line. With FashionSTUDIO anybody is able to create new garments without formal training in pattern construction or grading, publish their creations in an online store and bring their collections to life by manufacturing sustainably.Starting Price: $39 per user per month -
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PatternSmith
Autometrix
At the heart of Autometrix’s innovative family of proprietary software tools is the powerful and intuitive PatternSmith. Featuring industry-leading pattern drafting, editing, nesting, and machine control capabilities, PatternSmith makes the entire process from creating patterns to precision cutting simple. Adding to the power and ease of PatternSmith are our easily integrated series of plugins and tools that ensure a custom software solution that suits your needs perfectly. At Autometrix, we stand behind the quality of our pattern drafting software and we want to bring you only the very best options to make your pattern making process successful. Whether you are completing 2D pattern making or 3D pattern making, our cutting-edge digital pattern making software is the perfect solution. With a more streamlined pattern making process, PatternSmith allows the user to utilize a series of tools and plugins to personalize their experience and ensure accurate and precise results. -
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TUKAcad
Tukatech
Fashion CAD pattern making software with advanced functionality and process engineering to empower accurate pattern building, bespoke grade rules, and marker nesting for every style conceived. Includes audio/video help for every tool. Get all the below when you purchase TUKAcad, or customize a monthly subscription to your needs. Create your own custom grade rules to easily standardize your brand’s unique fit across every style. For customers “between sizes,” half-size grading automatically makes a new size just for them. Lingerie and swim designers will love angle grading for unmatched curve control! Leave nothing on the cutting table! Calculate efficient fabric utilization, including stripe and plaid matching, buffers, blocking, and more. Share yield and consumption data with robust reports. -
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Garment Designer
Cochenille Design Studio
Garment Designer Overview for Windows or Macintosh. This pattern making program allows you to create patterns for both sewing and knitting. It includes libraries of ready-to-wear body measurements, or you can input your own measurements to create a more custom fit. While you work, you can see the shape of your body (the sloper) sitting inside the pattern you are building. Garment Designer uses a USB HASP key for software protection. This key will need to be plugged into your computer during software use. You may install the software on your desktop and your portable and move the key back and forth. This is the same key system we use with Stitch Painter. Those of you who own Stitch Painter 3 or greater, may choose to update your existing key so both programs will run.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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PWstudio
Pattern Works International
Whether designing for the fashionista, suiting the business person, outfitting the child at play, or costuming for stage or screen - streamline your pattern design experience with PWstudio V4! PWstudio V4 is affordable apparel design software that’s flexible, intuitive and easy to use. Since it was developed by a garment designer, it is intuitive to your needs. You can even design on your laptop. Add a wide carriage printer and/or a roll-up digitizer and you have a complete pattern design studio in a very small space. From the style sketch, to pattern design, to grading and more. Design with any size sloper, customize client grade rules, create technical drawings for garment construction, and diagram sample production. PWstudio V4 is perfect for the professional garment designer or costumer, the independent pattern company, the sewn product entrepreneur, or apparel design educator and student.Starting Price: $975 one-time payment -
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Telestia Creator
eTelestia
Would you like an apparel CAD system that will allow you to create your own pattern collections, accurately, quickly, easily and in the most economical way? Then Telestia Creator is for you. An apparel CAD system created from pattern technologists for you! Forget the tedious technical functions included in most CAD systems, moving you away from pattern creation to struggling to learn complex systems. This unique system combines a set of easy to learn CAD tools and functions, with sound pattern cutting knowledge. You will be able to create your own blocks and styles, build-up your own style library, modify and adjust existing blocks and create fully professional collections. The software comes with built-in help and ready examples feature. Upgrade this software with the Automatic Patterns feature and get your own pattern blocks with a click of a button. Automatically created blocks can be retrieved on your desired measurements.Starting Price: $200 one-time payment -
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Vetigraph
Vetigraph
From the design office to manufacturing through the prototype phase, VETIGRAPH EXPERT® is affordable for all companies for the construction and modification of patterns on the screen, gradation, optimum placement, cutting lines as well as automatic cutting flexible materials (garment, furniture, composite and synthetic materials industries). This goal has been largely achieved to such an extent that our teams are now called upon by customers ranging from the design office with 3 employees to the manufacturer grouping together several subcontracting sites on five continents, wishing to carry out interactive management of its production. The ultimate goal is to get as close as possible to the simplest and most efficient CAD solution with the sine qua noncondition of opening up the systems in order to ensure perfect compatibility in the transmission of files between contractors and sub-contractors.Starting Price: $5000 one-time payment -
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Inventor
Autodesk
Professional-grade 3D CAD software for product design and engineering. Inventor® CAD software provides professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools. Work efficiently with a powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities. Work with anyone, anywhere no matter what CAD software they use. Use cloud-based design reviews to collect feedback from key stakeholders wherever they are. Follow the entire product development lifecycle with one data model. Design efficiently using specialized tools for sheet metal, frame design, and tube and pipe. Enable design, documentation, and process automation powered by iLogic. Access Inventor API to create your own add-ins. Go further by investigating Forge Design Automation API for running your job processes in the cloud.Starting Price: $2,190 per year -
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BlueCherry
CGS
To compete against more nimble fashion and footwear brands, retail and manufacturers must control product and operational costs, manage ongoing supply chain complexities, reduce time to market, improve visibility and meet growing social and regulatory compliance. CGS’s BlueCherry® Enterprise Software, with its apparel enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management (PLM) components, provides the platform necessary to compete and succeed. CGS’s BlueCherry Enterprise Suite allows fashion, apparel and footwear companies to control their processes start to finish, design and product development, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and sales functions. These end-to-end capabilities enable brands to efficiently manage everything concept-to-consumer for improved speed to market and enhanced competitiveness. With 30+ years of industry expertise, CGS’s Applications team understands the mission-critical nature of the processes our BlueCherry Enterprise Suite supports. -
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ESSDi CAD
ESSDi Infotech Corporation
ESSDi CAD/CAM is predominantly used in Garment and Textile, Made-ups, and Leather manufacturing. It also shares its potential tools in the Shipping, Aeronautics, Automobile, and Furniture industries. First Apparel CAD Developer in South Asian Continent. ESSDi IC innovates newer technology to various industries to ease their day-to-day affairs to have a clear and perfect focus on their business to increase profit margin by well large. ESSDi IC's technology is all cost-effective at carrier no further expenditure. Mostly, it will be a life investment or form an asset. Thiru.L.B.Thiyagarajan, the founder of ESSDi Infotech Corporation had crossed all impediments with his innovative and creative knowledge towards this project. To get his passion come through he was carrying his intellectual Child, ESSDi CAD with limited resources generated through job work and selling the CAD system, to sustain in market for the past two decades. -
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CLO
CLO
Get inspired by prepared pattern blocks and sketch directly on your avatar to generate pattern pieces automatically. Our true-to-life 3D garments make it easy to fine-tune the fit of your designs — even for drape-sensitive fabrics, like lightweight wovens and jerseys. With 100% accurate digital samples, you can explore every idea and inspiration freely in the most sustainable way - at no cost. Evolve your E-commerce by using our natural simulation environment to display and merchandise your 3D garment collections as soon as you create them. Sustainability is a fast moving topic in fashion discourse - developments in technology, production, textiles, and new collaborations and businesses to address different aspects of the fashion ecosystem are constantly coming into being. Check out these sources to learn about current developments.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTIVE
Software composition: -PV 2024 main drawing software bringing together all the creation and administration functionalities VISION of the dressing and undressing tool, allowing you to add projects carried out with a particular mannequin -CRET_TIS is a fabric creation tool (8 by 8) pixels allowing filling of closed areas in drawing -CRE_CAN is the canvas creation tool also used in filling 2 closed areas of a drawing. -VISION is a collection administration tool that allows you to select and send collections by email.Starting Price: $79 -
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COMPREHENSIV ERP
Xperia
COMPREHENSIV Enterprise System is an end-to-end ERP solution for the apparel and footwear industry. From start-ups to billion-dollar corporations, COMPREHENSIV helps solve the challenges and support the growth of apparel and footwear businesses. The solution includes tools for customer management, order processing, B2C website interface, and fast EDI transmissions to hundreds of trading partners. COMPREHENSIV also covers manufacturing/production management, supply chain management, warehouse management, inventory management, as well as financial management and accounting. -
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Sync
iSyncSolutions
Sync is the complete ERP and PLM software for the apparel industry. From inception to completion, Sync enables companies to manage the entire product lifecycle. It offers 22 industry leading modules designed to provide critical, up-to-date information to users. Top modules include style costing, inventory, PLM, allocation, materials purchasing, critical path, tech pack, sales management, and more. Sync also offers a B2B sales app to empower sales agents, improve inventory visibility, and help businesses grow. -
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MILLENNIUM X
Proel
Entirely designed and developed by Proel TSI, MILLENNIUM X is one of the most powerful and complete embroidery software packages currently available on the market. The use of avant-garde programming techniques and the experience acquired over more than 40 years in the embroidery sector have allowed us to manufacture a product that is truly reliable and simple to use. MILLENNIUM X is not simply a program but a complete embroidery package in which the different modules may be combined together to satisfy any production, economic or use requirement and to grow along with your business. Its distinctive feature is the high quality of the developed stitches, which enables Millennium X to meet the needs of the most sophisticated embroidery solutions, typical of the Italian fashion industry. -
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WinFashion ERP
Winfashion Technologies
Here at WinFashion we have a collection of professionals, who passionately work towards achieving company goals and tasks. We believe in hard work and provide excellent service to our clients, which in turn makes their everyday responsibilities simpler and easier. As a team, our staff researches and discusses new technology, and quickly implement them into our system to offer you the best software possible. We offer fast and reliable 24/7 customer service at an affordable price. Contact our US Staff by day, and our international staff by night! We create retail and wholesale websites which are linked to your ERP system to save you data entry and give you a more pleasant experience at work! We offer high-performance services, allowing you to allocate your employee's time to more important tasks. It has been our mission to remain technologically updated and to provide best tools to our clients globally, in this ever-expanding wired world. -
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RLM Apparel Software
RLM Apparel Software Systems
Industry Experts: RLM Apparel Software Systems is the leading fully integrated Apparel ERP, PLM, & Financials enterprise system designed specifically for the fashion industry. RLM Software Solutions enable clients to efficiently track and manage all their business processes and collaborate with global teams and suppliers. RLM is committed to providing our clients with the technology and services necessary to accelerate their growth. In its more than 40 years of operation, RLM has amassed the most knowledgeable and trusted consultants and implementation specialists in the industry. Among the business services offered are process optimization, on-site project management, implementation, training, phone support, software personalization, and custom programming. -
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TRIADEM StylePlugs
TRIADEM
The TRIADEM StylePlugs are textile design plugins for Adobe Photoshop. They expand the powerful tools of Photoshop to textile functionalities to create fabric designs. They are the ideal tool for fashion and textile designers who create their designs with standard graphics software. There are plug-ins for print design, repeat design, coloring and fabric simulation. Fashion and Textile design PlugIns for Adobe Photoshop. The Weaver plugin helps you create high-quality dobby weaving designs such as checks, stripes and madras in many different variations. Access to the collection color list allows you to choose from the appropriate yarn colors. Repeater allows you to create repeats, all-overs using standard drops or defining them as you wish, scaling rotating and mirroring each individual pattern in the repeat. Textildesign Plugin to create, print and edit colorlists.Starting Price: $893.16 one-time payment -
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VStitcher
Browzwear
VStitcher is the industry’s leading 3D fashion design and development software. With VStitcher, designers have the ability to design garments through size ranges, leverage graphics, fabrics, trims, colorways, styling, and photorealistic 3D rendering. Its comprehensive set of features enables designers, technical specialists, and pattern makers to create designs and take them to the next level with a true-motion fit, pattern modification, grading, tech pack, and more. Create or modify patterns and translate into a realistic 3D prototype that showcases endless variations from physical fabric properties to material visualization, seams, pockets, layers, padding, creases, 3D rigid accessories, trims and more. -
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Optitex
Optitex
Optitex Creative: An intuitive, versatile, and pattern-trusted 3D design software to power fashion designers’ creativity, supported by true interoperability between design, development and production. Design directly and only in 3D – to realize your creative vision at every stage in the process. Change style – without ever touching the pattern, all done automatically. Fast onboarding – a simple user experience that matches designers’ skillsets. Free up time to be even more creative – with accelerated design and decision-making tools. Communicate effectively with the technical team – using the same 3D assets between design and tech teams. Start working from a ready block to achieve the best true-to-life design results possible. Change existing style lines by manipulating the garment pieces directly in 3D. -
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SnapFashun
SnapFashun Group
SnapFashun is an indispensable teaching tool for all fashion classes & programs. SnapFashun quickly and easily teaches students the necessary tools of Illustrator that the fashion industry requires. This teamed with their learning the correct names of fashion details and silhouettes is the beginning that gives them the verbal and technical skills required to work in the industry. Today's students need their tools to go wherever they go. SnapFashun is the perfect tool for both physical and remote classrooms. With SnapFashun you make your schedule. Design anytime anywhere, all you need is your imagination and a computer. SnapFashun is both easy to learn and easy to use. It works seamlessly with Adobe Illustrator CC to make your fashion dreams come alive! Whatever your budget, SnapFashun is an inexpensive program that lets you pursue your career in fashion design without having to spend alot of money.
