Grading Studio

PatternMaker Grading Studio is a CAD system for the professional garment maker, designer, or costumer who needs to reproduce a pattern in several fixed sizes. It comes with one garment collection, Women’s Vol. 1, plus any two others of your choice.

The Grading Studio includes all the CAD-based drafting tools as the Professional Studio, and adds:

Grading

Create a grading rule by adding an arrow to a specific point on your pattern piece. The arrow indicates how that point changes from one size to the next. Put arrows on as many or as few points as you want to. Then, with three clicks of the mouse, PatternMaker creates the entire nest of graded sizes. It takes just seconds—now you can be your own grading service!

After you create a set of grading rules, you can save it in a file and apply it to any other pattern.

Support for digitizers

A digitizing tablet is a tablet-like device with its own mouse. You can put a paper pattern on the digitizing tablet and draw it into the computer by moving the mouse over the pattern. Common digitizers range from notebook size to tabletop size, and in price from approximately $400.00 to $3000.00.

Use a digitizing tablet to “trace” paper patterns into the computer. Copy your slopers into the computer—a whole drawer of tagboard slopers will easily fit on even the smallest thumb drive. Trace small-scale patterns from books or magazines, then use the “Scale” command to make them full-size.

Symbol Libraries

A symbol is any shape or text you want to reuse in your patterns without having to redraw it. Symbols are then saved in libraries.

One library of basic sewing symbols is included with PatternMaker, and with Grading Studio you can make your own symbols to supplement that basic library. You are not limited to sewing symbols—anything that you can draw can be saved as a symbol. Possibilities: notch marks, punch marks, company logos, copyright notices, standard collars and cuffs, and more.

More than you need? Next level down: Professional Studio
Not enough features? Next level up: Marker Studio See also: MacroGenerator

Educational bundles and discounts and site licenses are available. E-mail support@patternmakerusa.com for more information.

Grading Studio Purchase and Download

Buy Grading Studio $1199.00

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