computer aided design (CAD)

Like every facet of our lives, the apparel industry today has gone digital. SFD has the courses you need to learn to communicate to factories and get your designs to market.

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Learn to navigate the industry standard Gerber Technology AccuMark workstation.

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Gerber AccuMark is one of the most utilized patternmaking software packages used by design and manufacturing firms around the world.

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Learn to digitize and then manipulate your flat patterns on a computer.

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Your ability to draft and manipulate patterns on a computer will give you the competitive edge you need in terms of agility, and efficiency for product-to-market delivery.

 

SFD CAD Courses offered

CAD Art I: Fashion sketching and design

CAD Art II: Fashion sketching and design

CAD Apparel I: Digital pattern drafting in Gerber Accumark

CAD Apparel II: Digital pattern drafting in Gerber Accumark

CAD Apparel III: Digital pattern drafting in Gerber Accumark 3D

The focus of CAD 2 is on creating rule tables, grading size ranges, and marker-making. CAD 3 culminates in creating 3D rendering on avatars directly from 2D pattern data acquired in the earlier courses.

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Skills learned in our CAD for Apparel courses can be transferred to most digital patternmaking systems used in the fashion industry.