Garment Textile Structure Zoning for Property Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for designing and producing footwear and garments lack the ability to efficiently customize textile structural units, such as knit, braided, or fused filament components, to achieve specific properties like air permeability, thermal conductivity, and durability across different areas of the product.
Innovation Solution
A computer-aided design system that allows users to select and manipulate textile structural units, including knit structures, materials, and colors, while adhering to structural rules and material availability, to create customized footwear and garment designs, with features like color palettes, texture mapping, and structural integrity constraints.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If textile structural units are customized to achieve specific properties in different areas, then product performance and comfort are improved, but design and production complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The textile component is divided into multiple zones with different structural units, allowing each zone to have customized properties (e.g., knit structures in some areas, braided in others) while managing complexity through systematic zone definition and assignment
Solution Approach 2:
Different textile structural units are assigned to specific zones based on local performance requirements, enabling tailored properties (air permeability, thermal conductivity, durability) in different areas of the same component
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple textile structural units are integrated into one component, then functional versatility is improved, but manufacturing process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple textile structural units (knit, braid, weave, nonwoven, fused filament) are combined into a single integrated component formed by one continuous process, eliminating the need for separate manufacturing and assembly steps
Solution Approach 2:
A single textile forming system is designed to produce multiple types of structural units with different functions within one component, making the manufacturing process multi-functional and reducing the number of dedicated processes needed
3Productivity
If continuous textile structure is used, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but ability to provide varying properties in different areas is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The continuous textile structure incorporates locally varied structural units (knit, braid, weave, etc.) formed in different zones, maintaining the efficiency of continuous production while achieving property variation across the component
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for manufacturing a garment, include: receiving garment design input data for a garment design including data representing a first textile structural unit at a first location and data representing a second textile structural unit at a second location; generating a textile production machine instruction data set based on the garment design input data; forming a first garment using a first textile production machine to include the first textile structural unit and the second textile structural unit; creating revised garment design input data for the garment design based on the first garment based on receiving additional body map data relating to the first garment; generating revised textile production machine instruction data set based on the revised garment design input data; and forming a second garment using a textile production machine and the revised garment design input data including the changes to the garment design.