Grading notches and exporting patterns - advice for industry standard patterns
I am a freelance pattern maker and I want to be able to export and print industry standard graded patterns.
Currently, I do manual grading in CLO and walk every grade to ensure it is correct. I have not found a workaround that correctly grades the notches. These remain correct for the drafted size only.
To get each graded size I export 1 size at a time with seam allowances. I export as a DFX and bring it into illustrator to mark up the final pattern and prepare for a large format print.
This is a tedious process but I prefer it over manual grading.
My issue is that the final result still doesn't have correctly graded notches, and I need to do this manually - which increases my margin for error.
Do any other professional pattern makers have a solution to this?
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Hi sharna, to grade a notch you can add the notch to a graded segment point. The notch will move along with the graded segment point then.
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Thank you - I've done this a few times since your post and 80% of the time it works, which is still 100% better than my previous method. Thanks.
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When the base size is graded to a large size and exported to the dxf type, the notch mark is displayed in the base size position. It is not shown in the large size pattern. Before the export, notch mark was displayed in the 2d pattern window, but when exported to dxf, notch mark is not displayed in the large size.
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This is a very good question, hope someone from CLO technical should reply
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facing the same difficulty here. there you have two good oportunities to enhance clo3d: showing sizes on grading is another great obstacle for using clo3d in the industry. grading notch is another one. look forward to hearing good news from clo3d team soon.
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