Digital Tools and Technologies: Sustainable Innovation Driving Forces

As the textile industry is striving to save resources, more and more designers use digital methods to design, and the new digital tools and technology - 3D visual design, for designers, brands, manufacturers And retailers provide unlimited sustainable innovation opportunities. Through digital simulation, the design innovation without entity prototypes is required to accelerate the product development process, which enriches the design diversity, and reduces material waste and transportation, thereby reducing carbon emissions.

02 Digital Design 8 Essential

Successfully converting virtual design to real products requires 8 key elements, which is an essential element that implements digital design.

1. Size truly visualization should begin with correlation size measurements, and the size coverage is full of accurate dimensional design, 3D and 4D scan provide key data to the intensiveness and comfort desired by the target group.

2. Version

A reliable version is a prerequisite for obtaining good fit and stable production. The 3D version is a basic condition for realizing meaningful simulation, virtual sewing and realistic visualization.

3. Virtual portrait

During the real product development process, it is critical to represent the actual target group size and the correct virtual person of the body. Using virtual fittings to speed up development speed, avoid uncertain guessing factors, achieving real reproduction.

4. Digital textile material parameters

The simulation simulation depends on the accuracy of the physical test and interpretation test results, and the material characteristics are presented in digital parameters, and must meet the requirements of different software systems.

Digital design 8 elements

5. 3D virtual fitting

Digital design has transcended visual category, which requires knowledge of body size, structural process, material characteristics and apparel systems, even super-first software, also depends on data input.

6. Visualization

Visualization facilitates digital product communication, online display products (unable to match the body) or provide an explanation for the supplier, a picture is better than a thousand words.

7. Dynamic fitness

The action affects the degree and appearance, and the same fit can also limit or improve the flexibility of action. Digital design and simulation must take into account the dynamic body of the customer group, especially in sportswear and workload.

8. Training

Use 3D technology to create value, requires knowledge of basic synthesis, version principles, and 3D technology, which helps your suppliers also participate in the design team and suppliers.

Among them, the factors of digital textile material parameters are particularly important for 3D visualization design, although design is digital, but the final finished product is the real product used by the real person, so the real sense of visualization is very important for designers, manufacturers and consumers. .

03 Digital Textile Material Parameters

Material parameters must meet the requirements of various mainstream design software to form a true simulation of material performance and preciseness. To help suppliers and designers, textile detection, certification, and R & D partners - Hohenstein Universal Translator Approach is created.

Digital rendering material characteristics curved

Dr. Virgilio L. González, "Textile", is interviewed by Dr. Jan Beringer, Hienstan's senior scientific expert Jan Beringer.

Pan American Textile: What is a digital textile material parameter, why are they very important?

The digital textile material parameters are digitally simulated by software systems, the physical characteristics of textiles or accessories (including elasticity, quality, density, stiffness, friction, strain intensity, etc.), the accuracy of this parameter can affect the appearance of textiles. Fit, comfort, quality and manufacturing process.

Pan American Textile: What kind of difficulties and challenges are digitally facing digital material parameters?

At present, it is facing a real challenge: lack of standardization. Currently used 3D Design Software Vidya Assyst, BrowzWear V-Stitcher, 3D CLO have requirements for the test content and methods of materials, and even units are different, such as bending this parameter, three software use nm, bend W, respectively. / L (/), Bending Weft / Warp ((GMM) / (S ^ 2Rad)) Three completely different units.

The incompatibility between the software has caused the increase in test parameters (more than 35 items), even if each parameter is completed as required, the difference between the software algorithm can lead to different visualization effects and material characteristics, and inaccurate presence. It will affect the design effect and finished product, resulting in unnecessary waste, and even reducing industry productivity, quality and consumer satisfaction, increasing return rate, affecting brand image.

Pan American Textile: How does Haynstein change this dilemma?

In order to eliminate this obstacle, Haynestan has studied the main 3D software from test requirements, format, unit and simulation results. It uses standard test methods to streamline a wide variety of parameters to five basic parameters: weight, thickness, curvedness. , Elongation, folding volume, and shape, and finally develop Hohenstein Universal Translats, which can convert digital material parameters of the main 3D software into consistent visual effects and material characteristics.

This conversion method requires only five standard tests for each material, saves time and cost; the data can be exported to each software readable file format; can also generate a slope image, and create a digital parameter matching Sample book. These intuitive ways provide designers and suppliers to facilitate the use of accurate test results and Haynestein conversion methods, regardless of the software, materials can present the consistent visual effects with the real thing, make digital design, material presence And finished production is always one.

Adopt dynamic virtual portraits to ensure final product dynamics

For more than 60 years, Haynestan's clothing engineers have been carrying out the studies of clothing physiology, their integration, and version of the study, combining expertise and 3D, 4D technology, providing digital support. In the future, we will focus on the accuracy of body shape and action, based on size investigation and development more real virtual portraits, simulate the human body and waving the arm to achieve dynamic fitness.