Clothing CAD patternmaker
Code 7532.1
Clothing CAD patternmakers design, evaluate, adjust and modify patterns, cutting plans and technical files for all kinds of wearing apparel using CAD systems, acting as interfaces with digital printing, cutting and assembly operations, being aware of the technical requirements on quality, manufacturability and cost assessment.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- prototyping in the wearing apparel industry
- CAD for garment manufacturing
- circular economy
- manufacturing of wearing apparel
- commercial clothing glossary
- standard sizing systems for clothing
- 3D body scanning technologies
- types of textile fibres
- fabric types
Skills and competences
- analyse scanned data of the body
- calculate purchasing levels of raw materials
- grade patterns for wearing apparel
- create patterns for garments
- define specifications for clothing
- develop production line
- develop new products
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares
- inspect wearing apparel products
- draft bill of materials
- prepare production prototypes
- draft design specifications
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- develop product design
- repair patterns
- follow a tech pack
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences