Development of customer design responsive automation design pattern setting system

Abstract

With its technical development, digital printing is being introduced universally to the mass production of clothing factories. At the same time, many fashion platforms have been made for customer’s participation using digital printing, and a tool is provided in the platform for customers to make designs. However, there is no sufficient solution in production stage for automatically converting customer’s design into a file before printing other than designating a square area for the pattern designed by the customer. That is, if 30 different designs come in from customers for one shirt, designers have to do the work of reproducing the design on the clothing pattern in the same location and in the same angle, and this work needs much manpower. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a technology which can let the customer make the design and at the same time reflect it in the clothing pattern. This is defined in relation to the existing clothing pattern with digital printing. This study yields a clothing pattern for digital printing which reflects customer’s design in real time through the phase of matching the diagram area where customer designs on a given clothing model and the area where standard pattern reflects actual customer’s design information. Designers can substitute the complex mapping operation of programmers with simple area matching operation. As there is no limit to clothing designs, various fashion design creation of designers and diverse customizing demand of customers can be satisfied at low cost with high efficiency. This is not restricted to T-shirt or eco bag but can be applied to all woven wear, including men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, except knitwear.