Virtual Prototyping of Garments and Their Fit to the Body

Abstract

Virtual prototyping of garments provides high potential for design, product development and marketing processes. Fit of a garment on the body model is an important factor to design comfortable, functional and well fitted garments. Today, the majority of CAD systems for garments' pattern design have 3D virtual garments simulation software for garment prototyping and fit evaluation. The garment is composed of 2D patterns and evaluation of the garment's fit is performed on the 3D human body model, where parametric mannequin or scanned human body represent a virtual body model. Based on the results of this study and many recent research works it can be assured that virtual prototyping is a promising technique that has a potential to replace conventional garments' prototyping. However, it can be successful only when all specific characteristics of the textile materials and accurate virtual body models to simulate the garment fit are fully taken into account.