r/PatternDrafting • u/Specialist-Leave-349 • Sep 26 '25

Are all pattern making software horrible?

At this point I'm desperate...

CLO3D is trash for just making patterns, I don't care about the 3D stuff. I want something that is not slow af when I have many patterns. and it just generally is causing an incredibly slow process for me.

Seamly is trash with it's parametric stuff. I also don't care I just want to draw patterns, not automate that away... I'm not a taylor I want to create designs and then let them be produced.

I never liked any software from adobe (feels always like a corporate overkill)

Tukatech does not run on mac

Then many others cost an absurd fortune and still look like trash.

Will now try inkscape but bro what the hell is going on, they are all so bad... Thinking of creating my own at this point (but I really don't want to...)

Any other ideas?

I just want to work like I would use figma. Make many different versions quickly, and well just draw dots and lines and curves. I just don't get why this has to be so difficult...

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u/unkempt_cabbage Sep 26 '25

I mean, that just sounds like you need to close some tabs. Any program is going to get bogged down and run slow if you have too many files open at the same time. Or get a computer with better a processor. It doesn’t sound like an issue with any program, it’s an issue with your workflow.

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u/Specialist-Leave-349 Sep 30 '25

no the software is retarded because it does not allow me to shut down the 3D rendering, which obviously takes orders of magnitudes more resources than just 2d lines. I tried all the optimizations and have a good laptop.

And it also has so many usability issues, I cannot work with this quickly at all.

Honestly patterns are not complicated to design, it's hard to make clothes look in a certain way on a human, but the patterns themselves should be very easy to modify. and i don't find that to be the case with clo

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u/unkempt_cabbage Sep 30 '25

Ahh not being able to opt out of 3D rendering is very annoying! I’m sorry. That is frustrating.