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Pattern Making, Grading, and Marker Making Software for Fashion Design

TUKAcad™ is a powerful and user-friendly pattern making, pattern grading, and marker making software system.

Integral to fashion design, our apparel cad software is capable of producing anything from high-fashion couture clothing to mass produced garments, making it the perfect solution for apparel businesses and garment manufacturers of any size. Our Microsoft Windows™ PC application is easy-to-learn and has consistently been ranked as one of the most advanced apparel cad systems in the world.

Comprehensive audio/video help in multiple languages, automatic updates, and MS Office™ integration are just some of our standard features. Notable pattern making tools include; dart manipulation, dart fullness, fabric shrinkage, pattern card creation, and much more. Learn more about what separates our systems from others.

Pattern Xpert 2006 - The most complete pattern design solution in the world. Easy to implement, easy to learn, and easy to use.
Digitizing - The fastest, most efficient way to digitize patterns. Includes audio feedback for increased operational speed.
Grading - The most feature-rich grading system in the industry. Includes multiple grading methods that adapt to the user's work style.
Marker Making - Drag and drop operation makes the marking process fast and easy. Works with plain and matched fabrics.
Automarker - The industry's best performing automarking system. Optional easy configuration selects the best options automatically.
Automatic Cutting Machinery - StyleCAD works with a large variety of cutting machinery from several manufacturers

End-to-End Solutions for Sewn Products
High-end Function without the high-end fuss
Polygon Software focuses on delivering solutions to the sewn products industry that have high-end functionality, are easy to use and have a low cost implementation. Our customers demand sophisticated, enterprise applications and services with economical ownership.
Polygon delivers complete solutions for complex enterprise processes, with three product lines built and proven on the Microsoft platform:
PolyPM
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for apparel businesses. Web-enabled, PolyPM enables sewn-goods brands, distributors, and manufacturers to have all of their style and manufacturing information instantly available anywhere in the world.
PLM
Overview
Style Development
Global Sourcing
Fabric and Trim
Measurements
Instructions
Workflows
Collaborate
ERP
Overview
Orders
Inventory
Purchasing
Production
Cut Planning
Shipping/Invoicing
Shop Floor
EDI
PolyNest
The first "open" apparel CAD/CAM software and hardware system, with installations in over 30 countries worldwide. Now in its tenth major revision, PolyNest, provides unparalleled productivity and ease-of-use.
Overview
Pattern Design
Marker Making
Plotting/Cutting
Data Exchange
Automatic Marker Making
Made-to-Measure

PAD System Products
From its inception, PAD System has fulfilled the specific needs of all its clients - from young designers to major companies in the field of CAD/CAM software solutions. 
Functioning with Windows and Macintosh, PAD System software is able to satisfy the technical requirements of model makers, designers and other patternmakers while meeting management priorities - that is, reducing costs and improving productivity. 
With a complete design suite - pattern - placement - production - the software offered by PAD System represents a set of cutting-edge modules that are complete, coherent, and compatible with the competition. In addition, it may also be used with the majority of standard peripherals on the market, such as digitizing tables, plotters, automated knives and even scanners. 
Present in 50 countries and every continent, PAD offers top-quality, quick and effective technical support, as well as a training program given by experts.
All of our software modules are suitable for a wide range of industries, including fashion, accessories, footwear, furniture, automotive, aerospace, marine or industrial fabrics.

OptiTex develops innovative, user-friendly 2D and 3D CAD solutions for all cut-fabric and fashion-related industries. OptiTex's solutions designed to facilitate collaboration among partners throughout the manufacturing process. OptiTex is also active in ecommerce, providing online sales tools to promote branding and customer loyalty.

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The prototyping challenge
Prototyping is a key factor in a collection's success and 3D technologies can increase the performance of this step.

More than half of a garment's cost depends on the decisions taken during the design phase. Prototyping is therefore a fundamental step in a collection's success.
Brand names must develop differentiating factors. Technology, and now 3D, represents a key factor for boosting the entire fashion sector. In fact, including prototyping and product presentation in three dimensions in the collection development and marketing cycle will enable apparel industry professionals to reduce development time and costs as well as facilitating cooperation and decision making among the key players involved in the process.

Specifically dedicated to fashion designers, Kaledo Style and Kaledo Collection allow designers to concentrate on creation, and to improve efficiency at each stage of the collections development process: defining trends and colors for a season or product line, garment design, choice of fabrics and associated patterns.
Fashion design
Kaledo Suite is a collaborative platform that facilitates communication between business, design and technical teams throughout the conceptual design development process. Capitalizing on design resources, reducing time to market and boosting creative options are critical. Fashion companies rely on coherent branding, marketing and product design to set themselves apart in a crowded marketplace.
Eliminating repetitive tasks that are labor-intensive and tedious allows designers to focus on what they do best: design. The marriage of an artistic eye and technical know-how is very valuable, and Kaledo provides the forum to facilitate this type of collaboration.
Kaledo also offers sketching tools especially made for fashion such as symmetry, vector and bitmap stitching effects and component libraries to facilitate the re-purposing of individual pieces or of whole styles. Designers are quickly operational and productivity is streamlined.
Because Kaledo includes unique, fashion-specific “push” technology, style and other modifications are automatically sent wherever that item is used, eliminating tedious manual updates. Carryovers are cloned to accelerate the process, inheriting style and fabric properties.
Sketches can also be saved and classified directly onto the platform from Adobe Illustrator CS3 or CS4.
Collection Plans
Designers quickly fill mini-bodies with colors and fabrics using tools built solely for this purpose. Whether fabrics come from Kaledo Textile Solutions, scanned artwork or other sources, colorways are handled as a group to minimize repetitive object handling.
Even when sketches are filled with fabric and color, colorways created and placed in a collection plan, modifications can be made once and pushed to wherever that particular item is used—a considerable time savings.
Dynamic collection plans give designers the freedom to explore ideas and create better collections, ultimately resulting in increased design options and refined brand identity.
Collaborative Storyboarding
Boards of all types—trendboards, moodboards, style sheets, collection plans, colorway boards and more—are generated throughout the design process. Often, information is repeated from board to board in order to dissect a collection from every possible angle. Brands and other fashion companies must also present the same information in different ways to appeal to their target customer.
In Kaledo Collection, objects are intelligently linked in a way that is logical for fashion. When a modification is made, the update can automatically be “pushed” to all boards, saving time and reducing confusion, because everyone has the latest version.
Product Briefs and Specifications
As collections take shape and evolve, conceptual information associated with individual designs is harnessed and transformed into a brief or specification. Teams not only share information in real time, but contribute to seamlessly transform design into development. As team members of all disciplines see and contribute continuously throughout the process, information about a particular design is richer and more precise, earlier in the process.
Kaledo Collection is part of Lectra’s range of fashion-specific solutions that facilitate the sharing of technical and visual information throughout the development process.
Textile design
Innovative textile designs are fundamental to creating apparel that maintains a brand’s unique positioning in the marketplace. The latest trends and colors must be adapted so that they conform to a brand’s identity, appeal to target consumers, and meet production constraints. In a saturated marketplace, unique printed, woven and knitted fabrics help differentiate a product or brand from the competition.
With Kaledo, designers can easily create original concepts or adapt existing ideas for prints, weaves and knits. While it is possible to use Kaledo Print, Weave and Knit as standalone units, they are part of a global solution, Kaledo Suite.
Color Inspiration and Management
Designers understand the fundamental importance of color, and almost everyone in fashion is aware of the difficulty of re-producing that perfect color.

Lectra’s design solutions offer a variety of color options: ways of mixing and communicating colors, standard color libraries for both general and textile- and fashion-specific color systems, shade cards for yarns, and much more. All design solutions support the use of spectral data as well as a plethora of color systems.



Lectra KaledoCollection
Lectra Kaledo Color Developer 1R1C3
Lectra Kaledo Collection V2R1
Lectra Kaledo Weave V2R1
Lectra Kaledo Print V2R1
Lectra Kaledo Weave Knit V1R1c4
Lectra Kaledo Knit V2R1
Lectra Kaledo Style V2R1

INVESTRONICA SISTEMAS is a Spanish company created in 1980, specializing in the development of advanced CAD / CAM / CIM solutions and systems for the apparel, upholstery and related industries as aeronautics, automotive. The company currently has delegations and Distributors in more than 50 countries, while INVESTRONICA's systems are present at more than 5.000 client sites around the world and in the five countries. INVESTRONICA SISTEMAS has a client portfolio of world reknown at fashion, upholstery automotive and related industries.

The product range includes ...

CAD
INVESMARK FUTURA: is a CAD system which provides integrated design-through-production handling solution ( design, patterns, markings, etc ) for apparel and upholstery industries.

INVESMARK FUTURA shares the open system philosophy and runs ender windows 2000 environment

CAM
INVESCUT state of the art digital control cutting-systems may be applied in any sector where automated knife-cutting for materials is required. It has all the standard advantages of a system with such avant-garde technologies as reliability, repetition and precision

CIM
INVESMOVE comprises a circular motion overhead conveyor controlled by a computer assisted panel and is a powerful tool applied in achieving maximum flexibility during the production process.

Diamino, companies can now take into account more and more constraints linked to the specific fabric technical characteristics or the pieces to be included in the marker. Among all these new concepts, the management of patterned fabrics is of great importance, especially in the furniture and fashion markets, and in particular for intimate apparel companies faced with the cutting and assembly of small pieces.
This version also improves the efficiency and productivity of markers for pieces which are complicated to manage, such as fusing, pieces which are not visible, but which give the finished garment a better shape, and are commonly used in the market of men’s suits and in top of the range women’s ready-to-wear.
This new version of Diamino also brings valuable improvements to the preparation and optimization of pieces for production, especially in dealing with grain lines. This feature enables manufacturers to improve fabric resistance by defining blade direction.
For the automotive industry and for the airbag industry in particular, scanning of One Piece Woven bags is yet another valuable function. By taking into account any weaving flaws, cutting quality is ensured and a faultless airbag can be guaranteed.

Gemini CAD keeps the eyes open to the customer needs, we learn every day from the real production as we see it running in the companies where our systems are implemented, we learn from our competition, we learn from our mistakes and we are never satisfied by our level.

A very unique feature of our company is that the decision chain between the customer and the development department is made from only one person. It is incredible how fast we react to any pertinent demand from our partners

Customer support
Gemini CAD and our distributors are ready 24/7 to answer to any technical problem from the customers. The enthusiasm of our young team goes beyond the written rules that define how we provide support for the customer. We listen, we advice, we react, we solve problems in a way that you cannot distinguish the two parts: customer and service provider, we are a single team, engaged in a common effort.

Economical basis
Gemini CAD understands better than any of its competitors the economical values of the emerging economies, in the developing countries where most of the garments industry is located. Therefore, our price structure for each country is adapted to the local conditions, creating the basis for a profitable business for the customer, for the distributor and for our company and aiming for a healthy long-term growing.