Clothing CAD technician
Code 3118.2
Clothing CAD technicians use software to create design plans for clothing products. They work in 2D design which is known as surface modelling, or 3D design which is called solid modelling. They use surface modelling to draw a flat representation of the clothing product. In solid modelling, they create a 3D display of a structure or component in order to take a virtual look of the clothing product.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Teoria del color
- CAD for garment manufacturing
- manufacturing of made-up textile articles
- manufacturing of wearing apparel
- marker making
- standard sizing systems for clothing
- apparel manufacturing technology
- 3D body scanning technologies
Skills and competences
- grade patterns for wearing apparel
- create patterns for garments
- draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares
- inspect wearing apparel products
- operate computerised control systems
- prepare production prototypes
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
Transversal competences
- history of fashion
- perform process control in the wearing apparel industry
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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