BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF TEXTILES

A short review on textile software by

Gazi Arafat Hossain
*Co-Founder : BUTEX Spinners Club
*Founder : BUTEX Entrepreneurship Development Club
*Magazine coordinator : Kinkle
( A magazine on textile science by BUTEX Science Club)
YARN MANUFACTURING
 A. USTER BALE MANAGER

USTER Bale Manager is a Bale Selection software widely used in Yarn

Manufacturing all over the world. In cotton lines employ automatic

bale management systems to certify correct mixing percentages for

consistent fibre properties to avoid shade variation during fabric

dyeing. Cotton bales are stocked up to 6 months in order to provide

repeat customers with consistent quality from the same batch of fibers.
 B. AFIS
The AFIS method is based on aeromechanical fibre processing, similar to opening
and carding, followed by electro-optical sensing and then by high speed
microprocessor based computing and data reporting. A fibre sample is introduced
into the system and is processed through a fibre individualizer, which aero
mechanically separates the sample into three components consisting of cleaned
fibre, micro dust, and trash. Each of these components is transported in a
separate pneumatic path and may be analysed electro-optically or by other means.
The data processing and reporting are handled by an industrialized PC.

AFIS provides basic single fibre information and is distinguished from earlier and
existing methods by providing distributions of the basic fibre properties. These
distribution measurements provide more accurate, precise, and basic information
about fibre.
 C. RING DATA

Ring data software where spinning becomes efficient! With sensors you
are able to know what happened and what is happening on the machine,
you can save maintenance cost, you can save operator cost, you can
reduce the number of breaks, you can prevent any damage to the
machine, and you can find the best configuration for a mill.
Salient Features
 Automation
 Rationalization of labour
 Doff time is less than 3 minutes
 Gentle removal of cops increases life expectancy of spindles
 Crash proof auto-doffing
 Linking with the upstream machine.
FABRIC MANUFACTURING
 A. NED GRAPHICS

Helps to develop weave structure that will give fabrics extra touch of

aspect and look of the material. Build own library of weaves and store

them in bitmap format. The weave editor is a part of the complete

jacquard solution offered by ned graphics to create, study and stimulate

the most comprehensive jacquard fabrics.

 B. ARAHNE
Arahne develops CAD/CAM software for dobby and jacquard weaving
since 1992. Dobby and jacquard design software integrated in a single
product. All packages include a database of 40.000 weaves . powerful
pattern-making program for drawing in repeat and in fabric density .
Interactive editing: the modification on fabric such as thread pattern,
yarns, colors, regulator, denting, variable density, is immediately visible
on fabric simulation. Decomposed editing for double fabrics. Thread
pattern generator for making complex thread patterns. Drawing thread
pattern directly on the fabric simulation .Automatic correction of long
floats. Generation of crêpe (sable) weaves. Export of technical data in
XML or HTML. Fabric price calculation. CIE Lab based colorimetry for
color matching on different screens and prints . Simulation of Overprint,
Chiné, Ikat, Seersucker, raised finish and wrinkles • Realistic fabric
simulation in actual size .Fabric cross-section view.Weft blanket for
pasting several fabrics together without stopping the loom.
 C. TEXTRONIC

Textronics is a unique software development capabilities offer end-to-

end CAD solutions that encompass the entire production paradigm.

From concept to design and pre-production to integration; our solutions

ensure a smooth and efficient production of dobby, jacquard, printed

fabrics or carpets.
 D. POINTCARRE

For 30 years, Pointcarre Textile Software has provided a complete

package for Printing, Knitting and Weaving aimed at Fashion, Home

Furnishing and Technical Industry. Whichever Pointcarre modules

decide to use are integrated into a single application, native Mac and

Windows. Customers understand the advantages of Pointcarre through

a long partnership with us. Pointcarre is flexible and user friendly. Our

constant development ensures that all of our clients on Mac and

Windows benefit from innovating software improvements and intuitive

features.
 A. STOLL M1

Stoll Software Solutions offers innovative software tools for more

transparency, efficiency and economical pattern and knitting processes.

Pattern programming, connectivity with machines and quick bug fixing

are enabled by these software tools. The daily work becomes more

comfortable, as well as the operation result of the knitter. With the

pattern software M1plus® you are free to create all patterns that you

desire going from cut and sew.

 B. SHIMA SEIKI SDS
SHIMA SEIKI's SDS-ONE APEX3 can be used to design flat knitting patterns
including structure patterns, intarsia patterns and jacquard patterns. It can
also perform realistic simulation of yarn such as mohair yarn, slub yarn and
shiny yarn, taking into account plating, number of thread take-ups and
counts. It also improves production efficiency with a database of more than
1,000 structure patterns, which are linked with the KnitCAD software for
SHIMA SEIKI knitting machines. SDS-ONE APEX3 offers comprehensive
support for each stage in the flat knitting supply chain, from knit planning,
pattern design and colorway evaluation to production and even sales
promotion. It is an optimal design system for all types of knit production, for
knit manufacturers, planning companies, OEM and ODM manufacturers,
trade firms, yarn traders, interior designers and sundry manufacturers
 C. YX ENDIS

YXENDIS Textile CAD/CAM Software and Process Speeders for

Weaving, Knitting, Printing, Mapping, Color Conformity, PDM/PLM,

CAD/CAM Access, Mobile Sales

WET PROCESS ENGINEERING
 A. DATACOLOR MATCH TEXTILE
Datacolor® MATCH TEXTILE offers a variety of powerful formulation and correction capabilities,
guaranteeing fast and accurate matches with the lowest-cost recipes for exhaust and
continuous dyers alike.
New Datacolor MATCH TEXTILE v. 2.1 has redesigned user-interface components for easy
matching of any shade on any substrate or blend, plus enhanced functionality to meet the
challenges of the modern dyer. Powered by Datacolor’s unique, patented technology Smart
Match®, and MatchCOM – the industry’s leading, proprietary collection of advanced color
formulation libraries – Datacolor MATCH TEXTILE v. 2.1 significantly improves the accuracy and
speed of recipe calculation and provides superior first-shot matches. Users will achieve up to a
50% reduction in lab dyeings, increasing productivity, and lowering labor costs. With accurate
color matches you:

 Speed color development

 Eliminate waste
 Reduce dye consumption
 Integrate color formulation and production dyeing
 Maximize customer satisfaction
 B. DATACOLOR MATCH PIGMENT
Match® Pigment 3.0 is the latest update to Datacolor’s powerful and
accurate color formulation software for the paint, pigment and plastics
industries. Our unique SmartMatchTM technology enables you to
produce up to 80%*of your color recipes right the first time. With
powerful tools to optimize recipes and a newer, faster matching engine,
Match Pigment will boost the efficiency and productivity of both your
laboratory and plants. With Match Pigment you can:
 Save time and money with accurate first-shot matches
 Optimize formulas for cost and quality criteria
 Boost productivity with faster, automated matching
 Improve efficiency with network color management
 Streamline your color process with one complete solution
 C. DATACOLOR TOOLS
Datacolor TOOLS 2.1® a modern, easy to use and feature rich Color-QC
application for textile, paint, plastic, ink, paper and cosmetics industries
and global textile and automotive supply chain members. It enables
customers to analyze, report, communicate and visualize accurate color
QC results. All of this in a modern, convenient and flexible way, which
results in more efficient processes and greater productivity for colored
goods. Datacolor TOOLS 2.1® helps companies to report their color
quality faster, reduce lead times for having users adapting to interfaces,
though saves production cost and ensures consistent color quality.
Datacolor TOOLS 2.1® is a solid addition to Datacolor’s integrated
solution for supply-chain color management.
 D.MECBETH/XRITE OS

Macbeth lighting solutions are recognized as the industry

standard for visual color evaluation and specified by the world’s

leading brand owners for critical color decisions. These evenly

balanced systems allow you to detect and correct color

discrepancies before your customers do, eliminating the

guesswork and streamlining the approval process to insure

color harmony throughout a supply chain.

APPAREL MANUFACTURING
ENGINEERING
 A. LECTRA:

While brands are more and more driven by consumer demand and
business concerns, they cannot sacrifice what makes them different:
creative products. Lectra supports companies in finding the right
balance between creativity, innovation and profitability by placing
design at the core of collection development. Designers need to create
the right products in line with seasonal trends to ensure profitability. By
connecting designers, product development and production teams,
Lectra’s fashion design software allows companies to create innovative
products faster and at a lower cost.
 B. GERBER

Helping fashion and apparel brands stand out from the crowd. Since

first automated the fashion and apparel industry nearly 50 years ago,

Gerber Technology’s sophisticated software and hardware solutions

have been helping the world’s leading apparel brands and

manufacturers maximize quality and profitability and get their products

to market faster, smarter and better. Digital textile printing offers the

potential for unlimited creativity, greater flexibility, and faster time-to-

market for designers and production professionals.

 C. OPTITEX
Optitex, the leading provider of integrated 2D CAD and 3D digital
product solutions for the textile industry is joining EFI, a leading
developer of end-to-end industry specific solutions that enable digital
transformation across multiple industries. Optitex solutions will expand
EFI's growing textile ecosystem and enable leading brands, retailers
and manufacturers to set new standards for time-to-market, on-demand
manufacturing, cost efficiency and automation. EFI’s global presence,
holistic solution approach, strong professional services abilities, and
growing portfolio of innovative textile industry-specific products, will be
of great benefit to the leading companies Optitex serves worldwide in
the fashion, automotive, aerospace and technical textiles industries.
 D. GRAFITS

Erithacus Software Limited is an independent software development

company specializing in products for use in scientific research and

development.Based just outside London, UK, Erithacus Software was

founded by CEO Robin Leatherbarrow.

FASHION DESIGN
 A. MARVELOUS DESIGNER WITH CLO

Marvelous Designer clothing patterns & MD presets library

is invaluable for creating believable, realistic looking 3D

clothes. It will still save you tons of time and hassles ! No need

you waste lots & lots of your time hunting for clothing patterns

online, figuring out the sewing and all the fabric physical

property settings in Marvelous Designer software.

 B. VIRTUAL FASHION:

Virtual Fashion Pro is the first fashion design system that lets you bring
your creative fantasies to life. You will be able to run a complete draping
simulation to see how the garments adapt to the model's pose
according to the type of fabrics chosen, as they would if they were real.
You can customize your model changing the posture, facial gesture,
eye, hair, and skin color and you can even apply make up. VF
PhotoStudio puts yourself behind the camera and offers you lighting
effects, angles and zoom. Version 1.0 includes transparency value scale
starting from 0, adds backup utility, progress bar, and a new button to
reset simulation in VF Fitting Room.
 C. DIGITAL FASHION PRO
 Design Your Own Clothing Line / Give Your Designs a Realistic Look
 Creating Your Fashion Drawings and  Featured Digital Fabrics Include: Denim,
Illustrations From the Clothing Templates Leather, Suede, Cotton, Knit, Prints &
is a Snap Many More!
 Design Men's, Women's and Baby  You Can Also Import Your Own Fabrics,
Clothing Designs + Handbags & Shoes Patterns, Artwork & Logos
 Design T-shirts, Hoodies, Dresses,  Design Your Own Hangtags, Labels,
Jeans, Jackets, Athletic Wear, Couture, Buttons and More
Outerwear
 Ability to Print Your Designs, Save Them,
 Design Swimwear, Blouses, All the Edit Them, Email Them
Current Style Trends, Denim Jeans, Yoga
 Become A Fashion Designer / Fashion
Pants
Illustrator / Freelancer
 Hundreds of Templates That Can Be
 Option to Create Technical Sketches With
Customized & Modified To Get The Look
the Beyond the Basics Upgrade
You Want
 Send Your Clothing Sketches to Clothing
 Design Outifts & Pieces + Ability to Put
Manufacturers To Make Your Designs d.
Your Designs On Our Model Templates
 Use Real Digital Fabrics To Show Texture
 D. AUDACES IDEA

Create technical and stylized design, detail product

engineering, make available extensive file system, generates

technical records and product prints or digital catalogs. All this

is conducted in a system organized in modulus that allow

complete integration and mobility of production process.

Provide the creation and product engineering sectors tools to

work with speed and economy in a unified process.

 E. LECTRA KALEDO

Easy-to-use, apparel-specific tools give designers the power to

create new styles and carry over bestsellers to achieve reduced

development time. Kaledo’s sketching and boarding tools go

beyond simple flat sketches to create complete production-

ready technical packs and ensure that garments are produced

correctly.
MODELING
 A.LECTRA 3D FIT
Lectra 3D Fit is an extension of Lectra’s tool Modaris, that enable
fashion manufacturers to create and develop patterns for all kind of
wear, from babies to women, from swimwear to uniforms, thanks to
CAD simulator. 3D Fit allows virtual prototyping of the 2-
dimensional patterns created, with a great saving of time and
money for the fashion producer, up to 50% as advertised on
Lectra’s website. Combined with Modaris and PGS, two modeling
solutions, 3D Fit can accomplished the request for faster designing
and realization of seasonal collections, and users’ desire of
customized clothes.Modaris 3D Fit has some relevant benefits,
compared with similar tools
 B. GERBER V-STICH
Helping fashion and apparel brands stand out from the crowd.
Since first automated the fashion and apparel industry nearly 50
years ago, Gerber Technology’s sophisticated software and
hardware solutions have been helping the world’s leading
apparel brands and manufacturers maximize quality and
profitability and get their products to market faster, smarter and
better. Digital textile printing offers the potential for unlimited
creativity, greater flexibility, and faster time-to-market for
designers and production professionals.
 C. OPTITEX 3D RUNWAY
Optitex, the leading provider of integrated 2D CAD and 3D digital
product solutions for the textile industry is joining EFI, a leading
developer of end-to-end industry specific solutions that enable digital
transformation across multiple industries. Optitex solutions will expand
EFI's growing textile ecosystem and enable leading brands, retailers
and manufacturers to set new standards for time-to-market, on-demand
manufacturing, cost efficiency and automation. EFI’s global presence,
holistic solution approach, strong professional services abilities, and
growing portfolio of innovative textile industry-specific products, will be
of great benefit to the leading companies Optitex serves worldwide in
the fashion, automotive, aerospace and technical textiles industries.
 D. MARVELOUS
Marvelous Designer clothing patterns & MD presets library
is invaluable for creating believable, realistic looking 3D
clothes. It will still save you tons of time and hassles!No need
you waste lots & lots of your time hunting for clothing patterns
online, figuring out the sewing and all the fabric physical
property settings in Marvelous Designer software.
DATA MANAGEMENT
 A. SAP
The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to
interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive
range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been
assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and
Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the
capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting,
production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and
archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of
platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server
model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-
enabled package
 B. DATATEX
Datatex specialized software solutions are designed for
customers working across the full spectrum of industry
segments: textile manufacture, apparel, home fashions,
technical fabrics, accessories, nonwovens, rolled goods and
floor coverings. Its solutions cater both for vertically integrated
companies and those carrying out just one or two stages of the
process from fiber to finished product.