Embroidery effect needed
It seems that there is not an integrated embroidery effect within CLO. We shouldn't have to use 3rd party software to take simple graphic images (such as initials for a monogram) and make them into embroideries.
Thanks!
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How do you imagine that? And why, if there is specialized software for embroidery. There are actions for Photoshop, there are specialized nodes in the Substance Designer. There are many possibilities. You only need to have a desire.
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@Vad:
I am looking specifically for a simple rendering option of a graphic into embroidery. In no way would it replace what Substance, Chroma, PS are for. My client is looking to shorten a workflow as much as possible and this option would go a long way in creating a more seamless process.
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Check out the CLO3D SDK
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ottoline It must be difficult to be the smartest person in the room. I am always impressed by your knowledge on this forum and appreciate your willingness to share that knowledge. But you are a bully on this site, belittling people who are trying to learn and obviously don't know everything you do (how could they possibly?). While I don't know every software integration with CLO, I am trying to learn and it is not helpful to point out how little you think I know. Maybe you could point me toward the portion in the CLO Manual section that speaks to 3rd party software integration...I would be most appreciative. We are already using Blender, Hatch & Pulse for some rendering solutions, but if there are others you can suggest, please let me know.
My experience lies heavily in the apparel business but I have always loved technology and how it can help designers be more creative, not less. So I will ask a lot of questions to get ahead of their questions. You know nothing of my life, but know I research as much as I possibly can in the time that I have. All of us were amateurs at some point. Treat people the way you wish to be treated...that's what I teach my kids.
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+1
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The software SDK integration has been around for some time (for mac and PC) over 18 months on the V5.0 version.
If you do CNC embroidery at a production level relative to pattern pieces then you must appreciate that it is the production embroidery CNC data and datafile exchange with their respective vendors that drive the quality control of what can be made - and consequently it's simulation should mirror that. It is not the visual simulation in isolation. You should explore simply taking in the embroidery or bead work texture as a transparent .png with accompanying texture maps. And then you need to check that your embroidery CNC software can produce the visual simulation image maps at the same scale you need for use inside CLO3D. Then set your drafting symbol and insertion point notations to work on your 2D patterns.
You can attach the CNC embroidery datafile as a file attachment with any project within the workspace. Embroidery CAD data-files are specific to pattern pieces. If you have good production embroidery you can generally output a high quality 3D texture simulation for that CNC data as image maps. There is no reason why you cannot apply that to any pattern piece at the textural level. It is therefore unnecessary to have a CNC dxf embroidery CAD tool within CLO3D, at that level of integration. If the visual simulation of the embroidery in CLO3D is the driver and not the CNC CAD data, then the image texture outputs at scale 1:1 and position on the pattern piece from production embroidery software is suffice.
When you are drafting in CLO3D you can create a custom insertion point (baseline) on any pattern piece to denote the CNC cad position that relates to an attached dxf cnc embroidery datafle. The same goes for beading software, the CNC datafile and the visual outputs can be mutually exclusive and bound together in the techpack within the file attachment area of project work-spaces. All you need is a part code and item reference on the pattern and then lay the texture of the embroidery by it's insertion point. In that manner you can render the sample and still have the CNC datafile component under version control with the tech pack. If you look into the CLOSET workspace you will see there is a handy technical notes space for this, which is customary for detailing and specifying all trim and notions.
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ottoline Sorry for the delay in replying. Thank you very much for your reply. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness in explaining the reasoning. I am a bit of a 2-year old and need to know the WHY??? :) Have a good weekend!
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I am a hardened designer, just doing my own thing and prodding my own thoughts, we all do that, - it's water off a ducks back & part of being in design, and passionate about what you do, there is nothing wrong with having an opinion as that is what makes us all different. I don't see any problem other than our exuberance maybe getting the better of all of us on the odd occasion - that's life, lets us know we are still alive and kicking in the midst of a global pandemic.🖖
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:)
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