Marvelous Designer for fashion design

Marvelous designer is a 3d modeling program for clothes and fabric, as a budding fashion designer and tech guy which loves CAD it is all kinds of exciting…

The Blind Test:

Without reading the manual install Marvelous Designer ( MD for short) and make a piece of digital cloth:

The gist of MD seems to be building a pattern (on the right) and then letting it flow on top of a manequin.

Sewing

A poncho is basically a squarish piece of cloth with a hole, so the pattern is not that hard to make, moving onto more complex shapes, let’s try sewing pieces of fabric into something more dressy.

A lot is happening here, so let me try to explain; if you were to cut along the seams your current top or shirt an lay it down on a table, you would end up with something like the pattern on the right, from there you need to sew in MD the correct sides and then place the pattern around your avatar on the left, everything comes together once you run the simulation:

You now have a 3d model concept and a pattern for your clothes. It should be said that MD is not at this moment a tool for the garment industry, that is you can’t print the patterns and cut and sew them, but it is a great tool for…