Digital Clothing Pattern Sewing With Segment Length Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current clothing simulation technologies face challenges in accurately adjusting the length of digital pattern segments during free sewing, leading to potential wrinkles and aesthetic issues when segments of different lengths are sewn together, requiring users to manually match lengths and recognize significant differences.
Innovation Solution
A method for creating digital clothing that involves setting a first selected segment and a second selected segment by inputting starting and ending points, detecting the cursor position, and displaying a candidate ending point to ensure the second segment matches the length of the first segment, with warnings displayed if the difference exceeds a reference value, allowing for accurate sewing and preventing wrinkles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If free sewing is used to adjust segment lengths manually, then flexibility in sewing different patterns is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to difficulty in accurately matching segment lengths
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback by calculating and displaying the length difference between the first and second segments during the free sewing process. This allows the user to see exactly how much longer or shorter the second segment is compared to the first, enabling precise adjustment to achieve accurate length matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical measurement and comparison process with an automated computer-based system. The computing device automatically calculates segment lengths, computes differences, and displays warnings when necessary, eliminating the need for manual measurement tools and processes.
2Ease of operation
If manual adjustment of segment lengths is required, then ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in recognizing length differences, but device complexity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback by calculating and displaying the length difference between the first and second segments during the free sewing process. This allows the user to see exactly how much longer or shorter the second segment is compared to the first, enabling precise adjustment to achieve accurate length matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic length calculations and difference computations without requiring complex user intervention. The computing device independently measures segment lengths, calculates differences, and provides warnings when needed, making the operation simple for the user despite the underlying computational complexity.
3Productivity
If segment length differences are not monitored, then productivity is improved by simplifying the sewing process, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to wrinkles in digital clothing
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback by calculating and displaying the length difference between the first and second segments during the free sewing process. This allows the user to see exactly how much longer or shorter the second segment is compared to the first, enabling precise adjustment to achieve accurate length matching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs length difference calculation and warning display before the sewing is completed, allowing the user to correct potential length mismatch issues in advance. This preliminary detection prevents wrinkles from occurring in the final digital clothing product.
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AI summary
A computer simulation technology that processes 2D clothing patterns and thus creates digital clothing.The purpose of the present disclosure is to easily adjust a length of another segment to be sewn the same as a length of a selected segment on a pattern when free-sewing.