"New Zealand! ah yes! Land Of..Pardon? Now you mention it yes that's right but..Oh you do? Yes that's right 'down the bottom' although technically there's really no top or..um okay then, bye".
I'm just looking for some advice regarding pattern making. Okay so I admit it. I dropped out of first year Fashion School... What can I say? I had better things to do, not that I can remember what they were, but that's another small hilarious story.
Grading?! I've always done all of my patterns by hand on card, but I don't think I can grade all of patterns manually. So I've found out about P.A.D.
They do Digitising and Grading for approximately $7.50nzd a piece with a $12.00nzd set up fee depending on how many pieces/difficulty etc (I think I got those prices around the right way). They also do Cardboard Pattern Cutting at $2.50nzd per piece.
They sell plotters as well for printing out the patterns, a 100cm wide plotter will set you back $8500nzd, 180cm wide plotter $10500nzd.
So I'm probably going to go with using Stirling Cutting services and get it done for me the first few times and then maybe in a year or two invest in the program. There's also fiddly things like shrinkage to take into consideration and adding 10%, or what ever, may actually minus 10% off my remaining brain cells.
Do you guys have any tips or recommendation's? Speak up now. Hear hear!
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"New Zealand! ah yes! Land Of..Pardon? Now you mention it yes that's right but..Oh you do? Yes that's right 'down the bottom' although technically there's really no top or..um okay then, bye".
Pattern Aided Design
by David
May 18, 2010
Hey,
I'm just looking for some advice regarding pattern making. Okay so I admit it. I dropped out of first year Fashion School... What can I say? I had better things to do, not that I can remember what they were, but that's another small hilarious story.
Grading?! I've always done all of my patterns by hand on card, but I don't think I can grade all of patterns manually. So I've found out about P.A.D.
http://www.padsystem.com/
http://www.padsystem.co.nz/
Master Digit V 4.6 = $3900nzd
PAD Elite = $6900nzd
ooh la la...Can you buy second hand versions? dunno, you might.
I had a chit-chat to these guys:
http://www.stirlingcutting.co.nz/
They do Digitising and Grading for approximately $7.50nzd a piece with a $12.00nzd set up fee depending on how many pieces/difficulty etc (I think I got those prices around the right way). They also do Cardboard Pattern Cutting at $2.50nzd per piece.
They sell plotters as well for printing out the patterns, a 100cm wide plotter will set you back $8500nzd, 180cm wide plotter $10500nzd.
So I'm probably going to go with using Stirling Cutting services and get it done for me the first few times and then maybe in a year or two invest in the program. There's also fiddly things like shrinkage to take into consideration and adding 10%, or what ever, may actually minus 10% off my remaining brain cells.
Do you guys have any tips or recommendation's? Speak up now. Hear hear!