A desktop tool which generates 3D apparel samples for digital product development and production is now free to use for any fashion designer or pattern maker thanks to its developer, US fashion tech company ShareCloth.

The New York-based firm, which provides solutions for on-demand apparel production, has made its ‘the Editor’ tool available free of charge in a bid to support small businesses and independent designers and give them more opportunities to “compete with fast fashion giants.”

Founded five years ago, ShareCloth works to develop products that help solve three key industry problems: overproduction, high rate of returns, and dead stocks. Over the next ten years, the firm says these problems will cost the industry US$52bn in lost revenues.

Its the Editor tool helps designers, pattern makers, and sewing contractors to create 3D clothing samples using digital avatars based on more than 15 body measurements. 

The software offers AI assistance for semi-automatic digital sample stitching and imports DXF patterns from Optitex, Gerber, Grafis, and Lectra, according to ShareCloth’s website.

“At ShareCloth, we believe that fashion should be digitised. It’ll help the industry to sell and produce far more efficient and sustainable. That is why we created the Editor, a desktop tool to generate apparel 3D samples for digital product development and production,” the firm says.

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