If pattern making was only about making the perfect fit for each body morphology or posture, we would tend to have only one style totally optimized for this goal, but marketing trends and branding ask every company to bring its own identity and added value to its market.

Dealing with those requirements pushed our team to find some fast and efficient solutions to develop more and more patterns, based on free-hand drawing fashion designs, allowing us to flatten any shape drawn over our virtual mannequins.

Nevertheless, as long as we’ll work with 2D fabrics or neoprene, there will still be some shapes which cannot be flattened. At least, our software show our designers where the flattening problem is and guide their design to bring perfect Fit and Design together.

In order to keep our initial 3D design the same along the optimization, blue cutting lines illustrated above are not influenced by this process, contrarily to the red wire lines which vary depending on the optimization rate.

how does virtual prototyping benefits wetsuit and sportsuit fit

Exuskin delivers morphological grading for neoprene wetsuits companies, based on its own virtual prototyping technologies for reference, smallest and bigest sizes, getting an accurate size step progression and  respectfull final shape.

We deliver graded patterns to your neoprene factories once main size prototype have been tested and approved.

During our exchanges with our customers, it often happens that we propose 15 to 20 different colour proposals to help Product Managers to get some feedbacks from their sales agent, retailers and customers about which wetsuit would fit their requirements.

On the other hand, this capacity to supply any angled and perspective view of the designed wetsuit really helps to illustrate the specification files, to point out where to add seam taping, liquid seals, double or single thread blindstitching or bartacks for example.

Sales rep’s catalogues are also an important application of these 3D renders, with stitching, printing, embossing and texturing if required. It helps our customer’s sales representatives to introduce the coming summer/winter collection to their retailers, giving them strong sales tools to be viewed on tablet PC or Ipad.

Rendering previously to prototyping reduce by more than 50% the number of prototypes to be developed before confirming reference samples for mass production. It also give the possibility to develop a one-off wetsuit for special events or exclusive professional requirements.