So, free-as-in-speech fashion design software then? The outcome is that fashion designers who are only starting their business are mostly locked between expensive software products they cannot afford, rather simplistic free-as-in-lunch applications, and various generic CAD systems (from affordable to pirated expensive ones) that don’t make it easy to grade a pattern so that an initial design could be adjusted for a different person.Īre you already heading towards the comments section to angrily note that this is freedom we should be talking about instead? Well, let’s just say that giving people a free-as-whatever-you-prefer tool that actually works and provides a workflow with good enough turnaround would be quite awesome.
FREE ONLINE FASHION DESIGN SOFTWARE FULL SIZE
The price points on the software aren’t for the faint of heart ($16,000 or so with training, not counting a computer to run it on, a digitizer if you need to pull in hand drawn patterns and a plotter if you want to print full size patterns) and probably not appropriate for new DE ventures… While some vendors like TUKAtech optionally provide monthly subscriptions at $145 that spread the cost of ownership over time (obscuring the real TCO at that), others are less liberal.įor instance, Optitex’s public relation department isn’t exactly scared to repost case studies that point out: But what about fashion design?įirst of all, what’s the problem with commercial software? Like many CAD systems it’s expensive.
Over the years we’ve been to numerous discussions about viability of free software for graphic design.
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