- Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:02 pm
#14250
For custom work, one offs, using cad is likely not worth the time unless you are running a cnc cutting machine. If you are producing identical products then cad is a huge benefit, but you have to amortize the expense and effort over a lot of units to make it pay. I'm looking at " CLO3D " it's a program for clothing, it's affordable and has a lot of functionality for products as well and can drape fabric unlike a regular cad program which is designed for buildings or machine parts. I still draft by hand and make my own patterns for the products I make, but am thinking about "upgrading" if I could justify the very steep learning curve. If I want to deal with a factory my patterns will have to be digitized, but that's not expensive. I have used cad for architecture years ago, but am still much faster with a pencil and drafting board to sketch out my designs. Since I don't use cnc cutting, the benefit is not there for me.