Chittagong Fashion Specialised Textiles Ltd.

(100% Export Oriented Garments Industry)

CAD Room SOP

CAD, Computer-aided design, garments pattern made in a computer using different CAD software. CAD is the 1st
step of Garments manufacturing, garments measurement, shape and pattern can be controlled easily. Here I am
giving CAD room working procedure from starting pattern making to bulk marker printing flow chart-wise; your
concept will be clear about CAD work what they have to do in Garments industry.

Purpose of using CAD in Garments:

1. For reducing time in marker making.
2. For reducing Marker Wastage.
3. For increasing marker efficiency.
4. To make the marker accuracy.
5. To calculate the fabric consumption accurately.

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Phone: +88 031-741405; E-mail: info@chittagongfashion.com; Web: www.chittagongfashion.com
 Chittagong Fashion Specialised Textiles Ltd.
(100% Export Oriented Garments Industry)

CAD/Pattern Room SOP, Procedure and working Flow chart in Apparel

Industry
Initial Tech-pack/ PDM receive From Merchandising Shrinkage and Sewing loss adjustment
Department

↓ ↓
Sample making for bulk production
Create a New Pattern

↓ ↓
Approve sample from Buying House
Calculate Fabrics Consumption by Electric mini marker in
Yardage Yield (YY) ↓
↓ Marker making for size set

Send Consumption to Buyer ↓

↓ Marker printing

Consumption Approval ↓
↓ Cut size set

Order Confirmation ↓
↓ PP Meeting

Receive E-Pattern, block and Fit Sample from a buyer ↓

↓ Pattern correction

Pattern Grading ↓
↓ Marker printing by plotter

Submit Pattern to buyer ↓

↓ Send Marker to cutting

                                     Approve→ Reject→ Remake ↓
Marker Lay
↓
Marker Making for Sample ↓
Bulk cutting
↓
Note:

The whole process flow chart for new order development, when you do repeat order for the same style you may
not need to do consumption and marker making again.

Chattogram Office: Factory: Plot # 26, Road # 04, Sector # 01, Chattogram Export Processing Zone, Chattogram-4223, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 031-741405; E-mail: info@chittagongfashion.com; Web: www.chittagongfashion.com
 Chittagong Fashion Specialised Textiles Ltd.
(100% Export Oriented Garments Industry)

CAD section/ Department Flow chart SOP is described briefly:

Initial tech pack/PDM receives from merchandising dept.:

Firstly have to know about the tech pack / PDM (Product development Method) sheet. The sheet which contains
all detailed description about a definite garment is known as tech pack/PDM sheet. CAD section collects it from
the merchandiser at first.

Create a new Pattern:

In this step, the CAD department develops a pattern according to tech pack requisition. “Pattern” is a hard paper
which contains all single parts of a garment.

Calculate fabric consumption by an electric mini marker in yds:

Consumption means – How much fabric needs to produce a garment. With the revolution of scientific invention
nowadays it does not need to calculate manually. It is already calculated by CAD section automated
Winda/Optitex/Gerber/Red tree software.

Send consumption to Buyer:

After calculating the consumption, the report sends to buyer for approval. The less consumption you can submit
the more chance to get an order for those styles.

Consumption Approval: 

If buyer satisfies with the consumption report, then a buyer approved the report and agrees to place an order.

Order Confirmation:

Here Order is confirmed by buyer. If the buyer confirms an order, the garments maker may go forward for the
next process.

Receive E-Pattern, Block and fit sample from a buyer:

CAD section receives E-pattern, Block and fit sample from buyer. A block sample means the pattern without
allowance. Fit sample means the sample fit for a dummy.

Chattogram Office: Factory: Plot # 26, Road # 04, Sector # 01, Chattogram Export Processing Zone, Chattogram-4223, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 031-741405; E-mail: info@chittagongfashion.com; Web: www.chittagongfashion.com
 Chittagong Fashion Specialised Textiles Ltd.
(100% Export Oriented Garments Industry)

Pattern Grading:

Grading means the size variation from the master size.  Firstly a pattern is created with the standard Size, then it
would be grading according to all size. Suppose, S, M, L, XL, XXL size are ordered. L is the master size pattern.
Then S, M, XL, XXL are created based on master size.

Submit to buyer:

After completing grading the complete pattern are submitted to a buyer for approval.

If Approve, then go for marker making for a sample. If not, it will be rejected and comments for the remake.

Marker making for a sample:

For Sample making marker is created. Marker is a thin paper that bears all the parts of garments. Here Marker is
created by CAD software.

Shrinkage and sewing loss adjustment:

During pattern making, they adjust the shrinkage and sewing thread loss tendency at the warp and weft direction.

Sample Making for bulk production:

Now the sample is created for bulk production.

Approve sample from buying a house:

In this step, the sample for bulk is approved from buying house. Then go for bulk.

Marker making for size set:

According to the required size, marker is produced by CAD.

Marker Printing:

Now the created marker is ready for print.

Chattogram Office: Factory: Plot # 26, Road # 04, Sector # 01, Chattogram Export Processing Zone, Chattogram-4223, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 031-741405; E-mail: info@chittagongfashion.com; Web: www.chittagongfashion.com
 Chittagong Fashion Specialised Textiles Ltd.
(100% Export Oriented Garments Industry)

Cut size set:

Size set marker used for trial cutting. Then check measurement before and after wash.

P.P meeting:

P.P means (pre-production) meeting. Here the P.P meeting arranged so that styling never be a mistake.

Pattern Correction:

If any problem found in size set, In the P.P meeting the solution will be given where the pattern would be correct.

Marker printing by Plotter:

The plotter machine is used for marker printing. The completed marker is print through it.

Send marker to cutting:

Marker is ready to send the cutting section.

Marker lay:

After spreading the fabric on the cutting table the marker is placed on it. Before Cutting the marker is checked
very carefully, whether any parts or size are missing or not.

Bulk cutting:

If everything is okay then bulk cutting start. A straight knife, a round knife is used to cut. During cutting Production
proper tension should be maintained.

Chattogram Office: Factory: Plot # 26, Road # 04, Sector # 01, Chattogram Export Processing Zone, Chattogram-4223, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 031-741405; E-mail: info@chittagongfashion.com; Web: www.chittagongfashion.com