A pleating function idea
Hey, so when it comes to making pleats in garments, I find the pleats difficult to use and a bit confusing. So what i've been doing to create pleats is this process here-
First I create internal lines where I want my pleat to go
Then I cut the pleat out and either layer clone over or under, remove the linked editing and delete the sewing
Then I sew the pieces in the order of a pleat and flip the normals of the middle piece
And then merge everything back together.
If you could automate this process after creating the internal lines that would be so helpful and I think it would be a great tool for quickly and much more easily creating pleats.
There are two main benefits of creating pleats this way. First, I feel like I have more control, I can simply create the shape of the pleat I want with internal lines and look at the 3d window to fine tune the shape and place it exactly where I want it. Second, with the regular pleat tool pattern piece deforms and offsets in the 3d window like this-
which can cause the pleats to collide and disorganize themselves. When you layer clone all of the pattern pieces are organized in layers correctly and you don't have to worry about fabric collisions messing things up.
I think a tool like that simply automates that process would be extremely helpful and simple to use. Thanks for listening!
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I python scripted that as a process some years ago over on the MD forum. But using a few more (complex) pleating options to allow almost any type of pleating development on any pattern piece from sketch lines on the garment, where it inserted the offsets and pattern slicing, then ironically they took that 3D feature away from the drafting toolset. I should maybe re-look at that for CLO3D as it's a relatively simple development process. It automated the copy, slicing dicing, mirror and color segmentation so you could merge it all together in named order + color coded. It also did box pleats and other tapering pleat options automatically. It made complex pleating across a draft pattern very easy. I still use that process today for pleat development.
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ottoline Oh dude! you've made something like that?? that's so dope. I wish I could do stuff like that, the most I've ever done was write a few VERY basic autohotkey scripts, and those almost killed me.
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