Artlandia SymmetryWorks
Artlandia SymmetryWorks is a plug-in for making repeat patterns in Adobe Illustrator. Whether you are an experienced professional or a student, SymmetryWorks empowers you to create pattern designs a hundred times faster, better, and more imaginatively, like no other software does. This is the tool of choice for surface and textile designers, interior decorators, stationery developers, web designers, illustrators, sculptors, fine artists, and everyone who creates patterns. Save hours of work and painstaking effort. With SymmetryWorks, your motif is hot-linked to the pattern. Edit the motif and the pattern rebuilds instantly. All the necessary rotations, reflections, and other transformations, along with color reversals of your choice, are applied automatically behind the scenes. It's like you magically edit dozens of elements at once. Artlandia SymmetryWorks enables graphic designers, illustrators, textile and industrial designers to create an unlimited variety of patterns.
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Lotta
For a workflow based on validated blocks (e.g. carryover styles), use Lotta to create new styles with an endless variety of design lines, graphics, fabrics, trims, colorways, and more. Seamlessly move all-over patterns, logos and other elements from your favorite Adobe tools to 3D and back again. Even if you are new to 3D, it’s easy to get started with Lotta! Lotta gives you everything from draping and styling, to 3D/2D synchronized tools including 3D draw, 2D flat pattern design, fabric color and repeat controllers, logo and print positioning, scaling, rotating and styling, seams, trims, buttons and draw-cords. You can even model prints and logos in the full range of sizes to make informed decisions about the position, crop, and more. Instantly visualize multiple colorways and a mix of fabric types in each colorway. Experiment with a large assortment of built-in fabric samples or scan your own fabrics into the system.
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VStitcher
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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Assyst/Bullmer Pattern Design Software
PDS can be used to create and amend the full range of flat patterns. The working environment and tools available have been designed to make pattern cutting straightforward and fast. Drawing on the experience of many pattern cutters the software has been developed to make the most complex tasks straightforward. Adding darts, amending seams, creating fullness, working on multiple pattern simultaneously are all approached logically and quickly. PDS can also have 3D design (hyperlink to 3D) integrated within the software. Clothing requires grading, whatever the size range S,M,L..10,12,14,16..44short, 44 regular etc. This software is characterized by simple and intuitive handling. The different sizes are colour-coded for better clarity. Grading rules can be applied for single points or whole patterns. Pattern alterations are applied across the full size range automatically. Measurements can be exported in MS Excel to create and compare with size charts.
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