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by zenkalia 771 days ago
All these OSS projects are cool but it's worth noting that the industry standard for this is Gerber:

https://www.lectra.com/en/products/gerber-accumark-accunest-...

My mother was a "grader" and her workflow was actually very similar to software engineering. A designer would give her sketches of a garment. She would figure out how to build it - break it down to individual pieces of cloth and construction steps that then get fanned out to cutters and seamstresses to build.

When I got into software I found the parallels fascinating.
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dbcurtis 771 days ago
At the risk of meandering very far off topic.....

When qualifying a new semiconductor process, it is common to do "schmoo" testing, that is to intentionally drive the process steps away from nominal temperature, vapor pressure, doping levels, process times, etc, etc, in order to characterize the expected yield with variations from nominal conditions.

When my wife was in General Mills' Betty Crocker division, it was common to characterize the behavior of a new cake mix formulation under varying conditions to account for inaccurate measurement of added liquids, variation in the size of eggs added by consumers, variation in home oven temperatures, variation in cook time, consumers adding milk instead of water, etc.

I found the parallels fascinating.

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araes 770 days ago
Appears there's no confusion about the number of possible other clothing design packages from current comments...

However, as an OSS project thing, the video of a pillow/cushion getting made was pretty interesting for the auto-edge-stiching function. https://xn--6xw240d.net/img/20200620215506.mp4

From a background in graphics, it's a neat way to have edges grab and join. Maybe 3D modeling already uses this stuff somewhere in high end? Haven't seen much of just putting two 2D shapes near each other, and then making a 3D inflated design with edge grabs. Seems like it would be nice for hobby games / apps, where you could draw a character front/back, and then inflate to ~3D shape. Might exist, and be my lack of awareness of the community.

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