Where To Go On The Road Of Garment CAD/CAM

　　 clothing Why is the competition in CAD so fierce? First, China's clothing exports account for 24% of the world's total, which means that China clothing There are many enterprises, which provides a market for the clothing hardware and software industry. Secondly, the IT technology gap between China and the world's major countries continues to narrow. We already have the technology to manufacture clothing CAD/CAM. The third is the most critical point, which is the profit of clothing CAD/CAM. A set of CAD/CAM equipment is convenient in China for 80 to 100 thousand, and expensive for hundreds of thousands of millions. But how much is the production cost? This is a huge market! In the face of this market, how to take the road of the future for clothing CAD is a problem worth pondering by every software developer.

How can developers seize the heart of garment enterprises, and how can smart business owners sign their purchase orders? The author believes that developers should consider reducing the original from the perspective of enterprise users. It is almost impossible to reduce the cost in software, but there is a lot of room for reducing the cost in external CAM equipment of CAD! A domestic cutting machine costs about 50000 yuan, a domestic reading board costs about 10000 yuan, and a plotter costs more than 20000 yuan, which makes some small garment factories flinch. Even medium-sized enterprises, most of them do not want to buy less useful reading boards and plotters. If developers can replace these expensive equipment with other cheaper equipment, It will be very popular in small and medium-sized clothing enterprises. For example, if developers can use digital cameras instead of reading boards, it will bring great convenience to clothing enterprises and save some money! As far as I know, some developers have already done so! But now there is no equipment that can replace the cutting machine, which requires developers to use their brains!

I have used some domestic ones Clothing CAD We found a common feature. Developers focus most of their experience on plate making tools. The function of plate making is very powerful, but they ignore the function of other modules, such as AGCO CAD. The function of plate making is relatively strong. However, they lack a lot of function in layout, process and style management. Clicking anywhere when layout is saved will result in no response to the task, The good layout drawing will also disappear. The drawing function in the process is too simple, not much better than the system's own brush, and the function in the style management is even less. These are common problems of all CAD in China. In the garment CAD I have used, there is no "sample management", but this is a headache for every master of pattern making clothes There are more than 100 samples. If the proofing worker loses one sample, he needs to set aside all the samples. If we have template management, we can number the templates from 1 to 100, and we can quickly find out what is missing. There are many details that only happen on the production site, and programmers can never feel in the studio!

Now most enterprises using clothing CAD/CAM complain that CAD design is unreasonable, defective, and has loopholes. Some manufacturers have responded by modifying software and hardware, but the results are not very satisfactory! Why is this? This is because the vast majority of programmers who program clothing software do not know about clothing. The salesmen of software companies facing clothing enterprises do not know about technology. Most software development directors and consultants are veterans who have been away from the production line for many years. Programmers do not know what tools and functions the factory needs, This is not a problem that can be solved by salesmen passing word between clothing enterprises and programmers. Programmers should go down to clothing enterprises and listen to the opinions of technical personnel of clothing enterprises to see what they really need. Solving their needs is the goal of this software development! Now how many software developers can go to garment enterprises to provide after-sales feedback information?

The development direction of garment CAD in the future is not determined by the developer or the development director. The demand of garment enterprises or the demand of garment enterprises' technicians is the development direction of garment CAD. Software developers should take programmers to the garment companies more often. Every company should make after-sales feedback information and listen to what users say, It is more practical to see what the technicians need than to make sales plans in the office. Because only users know what they really need; At the same time, try to reduce the hardware cost for users, or use other cheaper hardware instead of expensive hardware to make CAD smaller Garment processing Workshop, this is the real blue ocean of clothing software!