How to integrate recent development in technology with Digital Prototype textile and apparel applications

Abstract

The textile and clothing industry is moving away from its traditional roots in an attempt to revive the fortunes of this mature industry, through the adoption of novel technologies. Digital Prototypes are used as an essential tool in the modern design process. The integration can speed up the design process and affect competition be-tween companies. Typical applications are digital textile and fashion design, pattern generation to custom-design clothing, fitting evaluation, style editing, and virtual try-on. However, new product developments in textiles and clothing have widened our views of the world and must also be covered. The ever-growing spectrum of smart textiles and wearable technologies has the potential to take the textile industry in a completely new & sustainable direction, far beyond its traditional roots. The integration of smart functionality into clothing and other textile products into the digital prototype is essential in order to alter our relationship with them and the way we use them.

3D technology in fashion: from concept to consumer

“…In fact, the traditional process of product design and development in this industry is based on an iterative process in which a number of repeated cycles of samples, fittings and design alterations are conducted in order to achieve the initial concept ideas of the designer coming true in the physical final product (Papahristou and Bilalis, 2016). It is a time-consuming and costly process, which depends on the know-how and skills of the designer and the product development team, and it can take up to the 70 per cent of an ordinary product lifecycle (Jefferson et al , 2012; Papachristou and Bilalis, 2015). In addition, problems of communication with factories during this iterative process in a lot of cases lead to inadequate interpretations of the initial design (Papahristou and Bilalis, 2016).…”

“…Some technology providers claim that mayor players using correctly their technology are reducing the development lead time by 20-50 per cent (Papahristou and Bilalis, 2016). Apart from these cost-reducing benefits, the use of 3D virtual prototypes also allows designers to freely and easily experiment with different concept ideas, a variety of fabrics and patterns before the physical good is produced (Papachristou and Bilalis, 2015), thus helping designers enhance their creativity (Reilly, 2014). In addition to the application in the prototyping phase, the 3D printing technology has some other interesting advantages concerning final product customization as it enables small quantities of customised goods to be produced at relatively low costs (Vanderploeg et al , 2017; Parker, 2016).…”

Virtualization of Clothing Thermal Comfort in 3D Simulations

“…Virtual garment is a process used for speeding up the presention of the collections to new markets and reducing the overall cost. It allows designers to design easily with a variety of fabrics and patterns on a 3D virtual body without manufacturing the sample garment; it enables to use of a virtual model, for evaluating and testing the characteristics of a product and for simulating the manufacturing processes in a computational environment [2]. Figure 1 shows process steps of 3D virtual garment simulation including creating pattern, arranging the virtual body, defining fabric properties, sewing garment and simulating.…”

An Augmented Reality-Based Simulation Guide for Apparel Assembly

“…Prototyping was identified as the most crucial task within the new product development (NPD) process. Most of the prototyping errors happen due to miscommunication and misinterpretation of technical information related to product assembly at the initial stage of NPD [4], [5]. Furthermore, the prototyping tasks are even complexed when the new product consists of value-added functionality and higher level of performance.…”