A fun use of CAD (computer assisted design) software for clothing is its us for producing custom T-shirts for you or your friends. Note that this can allow you to create far more complex T-shirts than you might expect. Most of us are used to “custom T-shirts” simply referring to something ironed onto the front. However, T-shirt design software can actually enable you to put intricate designs anywhere on your T-shirt, not simply on the front.
T-shirt design is usually included inside of larger fashion design tools. The reason for this inclusion is that T-shirt design is ultimately the addition of a pattern to a pre-existing object. What you do in order to design T-Shirts on an existing design tool is to take the pre-existing clothing template of a T-shirt and then begin to put designs right on the T-shirt.
Fortunately, T-shirt design using CAD products enables you to avoid some of the most common mistakes that people make. For instance, most people when they design their own T-shirts treat the T-shirt as a two-dimensional object on which they are painting a picture. The problem with this, of course, is that people are three-dimensional objects. As a result, the clothing that is produced by such a method will usually involve warped and uninteresting images.
On the other hand, using clothing designer software will enable you do produce designs that fit the three-dimensional body in a virtual studio. Most of these programs have graphical or flash models on which you can test the appearance of anything you design. When you find that your images, from paintings to lettering, are being warped, you can change them or move them as is required. When you have finished producing your T-shirt, printing your final design is easy and can be used for the actual placing of your design onto the shirt.
While many CAD programs are made for business and are very expensive, there are also a number of programs that allow for a free download of the whole program, or of a trial version that should probably be sufficient for your needs. In addition, there are some online CAD programs that provide a script that enables you to place clothing objects onto a model, though in general, these can be quite difficult to use.
T-Shirt Design that is more than a boring iron-on in the center of the chest can look fantastic and can make great gifts. Fortunately, CAD clothing software can help create them.