Computer Applications in Apparel

Author: Lin Dejing
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: With the widespread application of clothing CAD technology, various colleges and universities offering fashion design programs have successively introduced clothing CAD application courses. Well-equipped schools generally adopt commercial clothing CAD systems for teaching. The major weakness of this teaching model is that it closely resembles client-oriented commercial training in terms of proficiency. This is particularly disadvantageous for college students in cultivating their CAD application skills. As a result, some forward-thinking institutions have transformed clothing CAD application courses into clothing computer application courses, shifting the teaching structure from mere practice with commercial clothing CAD software to a focus on computer art design software and CAD design software for assisting in fashion design and solving engineering problems, with an introduction to commercial clothing CAD software as supplementary. This book is specifically designed as a textbook for such teaching. The content of this book is a summary of the authors' many years of teaching experience in this field. It has been practiced in teaching and graduation design for adult education associate degree classes, fashion design and engineering undergraduate programs, and graduate studies at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, and has played a positive role in improving teaching quality. This book places particular emphasis on cultivating students' CAD application skills. At the same time, it provides a feasible and practical personal clothing CAD software environment to guide readers on how to use home computers and leverage general CAD software to solve and address fashion design and engineering problems. This book is also the first reference book to introduce the development of clothing CAD functions using AutoCAD.