Parametric Design for Rapid Patterning
Patterns ready to cut in minutes with no CAD experience
Designing and fabricating custom products can be as quick and easy as as stock items if you use parametric design. Aeronaut develops custom parametric plug-ins which run inside commercial CAD software for the rapid pattern design of products from truck side curtains and tarpaulins to pool liners, packaging and caravan awnings.
The design of many textile products can be got down to a few key measurements, often coming from your ordering information. These numbers can be used to drive a parametric design plugin to take a complex patterning process from hours to a minute or less.
The profit margin on customised products is usually better than stock items. Parametric design plug-ins can be an excellent investment to reduce design overheads and increase profitability. Please contact Aeronaut if you would like to discuss parametric plug-ins for your products.
A huge range of products can be designed with parametric plug-in tools. The examples below are just a few.
- Marine: boom covers, biminis, sail bags, winch covers, snuffers.
- Equipment bags: bags of all shapes and sizes with custom pockets, handles and loops.
- Parachute, paraglider and hang glider harnesses and containers.
- Truck tautliners, curtains, roll-over and pull over load covering tarpaulins.
- Caravan and camper trailer awnings and annexes.
- Covers for boats, cars, machines and all sorts of other equipment.
Parametric Rapid Patterns
For a lot of products like pool liners or truck tarps, key product dimensions are collected in a simple form. These can be easily entered into a parametric plug-in to create a drawing and cut pattern IN A minute or two.
But why stop there? If your customers fill in a form online, the data can be imported into the plug-in to create the drawings hands-off.
Patterns Without Limits
There really isn't a limit to the size and complexity of the patterns you can create with a parametric plug-in. Simple shapes like a lampshades or much bigger designs like truck side curtains work equally as well.
Repetitious elements like strap details and eyelet cutouts can be quickly positioned and edited making a complex task into something quick and easy.
Perfect Accuracy
Here we have a couple of NARA archive boxes. They're a package design for museum and library archives and the dimensions are strict. Boxes have to be made to fit each article.
Using a parametric plug-in, the plug-in design is refined to get the best fit from archive board so perfect size individual designs can be created with three or four data entries, ready to cut in seconds.
Triangulated Points
The Triangulated Points tool is a simple stand-alone program which takes the output from normal surveying measurements and generates an outline profile for editing in CAD software or direct cutting. Typically Triangulated Points is used to pattern products like swimming pool covers and other asymmetrical shapes.
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