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About REACH CAD

Carrying out Pattern Engineering, Grading and Marker Planning manually is a notoriously inefficient and cumbersome process. REACH CAD effects significant time and labor savings by automating this process.

REACH CAD streamlines and improves efficiency of the product development team. This is done by safeguarding against people turnover, eliminating manual errors, building a knowledge base that can be used to create and re-create patterns and markers and by enabling collaborative team working.

Manual patterns can and do get worn-out, torn etc. and cannot be re-used to create slightly different styles.

REACH CAD uses apparel specific intuitive and user-friendly tools to engineer patterns, grade the base pattern to various other sizes and to tightly pack these patterns to form the most efficient markers. Figuring out optimal layout of patterns to form tight markers needs the application of spatial visualization skills: this is best done on a computer monitor and not by going back and forth on a table.

Benefits of REACH CAD

• Accurate patterns
• Accurate grading
• Tight and efficient markers
• Time savings
• Enables Base Pattern design using the PDS module
• Enables grading the Base Patterns into Patterns of various other sizes using the Grading Module
• Enables 'marker planning' using the Marker Module
• Translates Pattern Engineering skills into Organizational Knowledge
• Enables reuse and modification of existing patterns
• Enables Grading by applying mathematical rules. Takes only a few minutes
• Eliminates / minimizes errors by enabling collaboration between various relevant workgroups

"REACH CAD is working brilliantly for us. Once the buyer has approved the pattern, REACH CAD grades it perfectly to all the other sizes. All the mistakes associated with grading a pattern manually have been eradicated. Our pattern makers now have time to do more things, to develop more styles. It's a great productivity enhancement tool.”