Gauze-like fabric
Hello,
I am spankin' new to pattern making with no previosu experience. I am currently evaluating CLO3D. I've taken a course on Udemy.com called 'CLO3D for Beginners' that was outstanding and really got me going quickly.
I am wondering if there is a gauze-like fabric available similar to cheesecloth. I'm looking for something loosely woven enough to be see through. Is this something that could be achieved with a specific fabric that comes with CLO3D, for instance to apply a gauze-like texture to an existing fabric and then give the fabric transparency? Also, could the weave of a fabric like this be distressed and tugged around and torn?
I'm also interested in laces, fishnet and other materials that are woven to have tranparency.
As I said, I am evaluating CLO3D, not just for the software itself but also for it's community and aftermaket. 3D pattern design seems to be a pretty new thing and I want to be careful about where I place my energies and investment of time and money.
Thanks in advance!
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Hello braveness23. Thank you for your inquiry. Though the pattern pieces themselves are solid, there are techniques that can be applied that will allow you to achieve the results you are looking for.
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Welcome braveness23!
If you work in the fashion industry you will certainly benefit from learning CLO. It is a great tool for design, prototyping, sales, e-commerce and many other uses. It is not a beginner's tool, so I applaud your enthusiasm even without pattern making experience.
I will highly recommend you learn about pattern making while you are still beginning with CLO, because it is sometimes overlooked and believing that CLO will do magic to fix basic pattern design issues, you could end up frustrated. CLO assumes you know the basics of pattern making in order to produce good results.
In relation to fabrics, you can get almost any (very few limitations here) in terms of how they look. There are good discussions about that in here.
https://support.clo3d.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043952074-Favorite-PBR-Fabric-Texture-sites
The second part to fabrics is how they simulate under gravity forces (draping). For that, there is a more advanced technique provided by CLO using a fabric digitizing kit.
Check these two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYV19dq6NR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7HoK6_4Fk
About tearing up fabric, it can't be done organically. CLO's fabrics will never tear. You will have to cut and add a torn effect.
I hope you enjoy the CLO ride!
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Thanks for the welcome to the community and those recommendations are super helpful!
I don't work in the fashion industry at all, I am a cloud computing engineer with an unexpained passion for women's and unisex fashion - especially goth, rock, metal, strega and post apocalyptic fashions. My Pinterest board is called 'Chicks in Black (and other chicks and some dudes)' if that gives you any idea.
I am also heavily involved with a makerspace where we recreationally do woodworking, metalworking, electronics, glass work and, recently, fiber arts. We have a fearless nature where we just jump in and learn stuff that amuses us and share what we know with the community.
Late last winter I found a pattern and made a t-shirt for myself. It turned out... OK. My cutting and sewing are very amateur but the shirt is wearable. I kinda realized that my interest isn't in sewing, it is in pattern design and CLO3D seems to allow me to skip the sewing and ruining of fabric and cut to the part I like.
I'm just experimenting with the tools and getting the feel of draping and creating pattern pieces now. Today I started with a simple poncho and a rotated version. I'll probably move on to a vest and then do a t-shirt from scratch. A lot of things I want to make are drapey layers and barley require sewing.
Not sure where I am going with my new hobby. My first goal is to see if it is something I am interested in enough to pay $50/mo for and if CLO3D is the right tool and community for me.
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It is a dream of mine to one day make a cape like John Lennon wore in the movie HELP! I saw it in person 15 years ago in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I regret not taking pictures of it. It is no longer in the museum and the images of it on the internet are terrible!
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