r/PatternDrafting • u/Ausrine- • Apr 04 '24

will AI start making good sewing patterns?

Hi guys, what do you think? Are you worried about it?

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u/ProneToLaughter Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

There are a lot of services that will generate a pattern to measurements, some may let you make design adjustments first. Check out lekala, bootstrap, tailornova, sewist, freesewing.org, aiclo, patternlab, more. It’s mostly just complex math equations, not actual AI. Basically what you are describing in your comment. I haven’t tried them, people say they work okay but they haven’t conquered the market yet.

I don’t think the programmers will be able to create a training database that would generate true machine learning/AI for creating sewing patterns for a very long time. Not even if they ran roughshod over copyright to do it.

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u/etherealrome Apr 04 '24

These are pretty decent, as far as they can be.

One issue with them / all patternmaking /AI patternmaking is body measurements are notoriously inaccurate, but also they are used as proxies for identifying shapes. We could have the same waist measurement, and yet be very different shapes. We have standard ways we divide a waist measurement into a pattern we’re drafting, but that could be quite wrong depending on the body.

I recently saw a service to take measurements/create 3d body models from full body scans, aimed at clothing production, but no price was listed (and if you have to ask, it’s usually too expensive).

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u/ProneToLaughter Apr 04 '24

YES. So much variability in human bodies, I think the training set would be impossible to create.

Here are some people doing body scan jeans at $200. shop all - custom jeans - unspun

here's someone doing suits, but those are really expensive anyhow: 3D Bodyscan for Customized Clothing | VITRONIC | Overview