rbryanh Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Folks... I'm considering upgrading to Vectorworks 12, and have a few specific?questions. I'd be grateful for some advice. My primary need from CAD software is generating clothing pattern designs based on measurements.?? Clothing design is a process of adapting 2D materials to 3D surfaces, so 2D drafting is essential and 3D modeling is of interest.???I currently use manual methods, assisted by assorted graphics programs, am shopping for the best tools with which to automate the entire process. Most important is the ability to apply fairly complex numeric dimensional and parametric constrains to a 2D drawing.? The measurements I use are stored in spreadsheets and a client database.? Ideally, I'd like to be able to link or import them, generating many patters from one drawing by altering a table of numeric measurements.?? I don't find this easy or even possible in Vectorworks 11, and am unable to determine from the documentation if anything has changed. Speculation on the possibility, feasibility, and ease of this application would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Bryan Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Bryan, my guess is that you'd have to write scripts to do what you'd like to do. It's a pretty complex task - something that a 3rd party developer would tackle in a high-level programming language with a lot of development time. Quote Link to comment
ludesign Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Perhaps www.touchcad.com would be worth a visit? Quote Link to comment
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