Canadian Costumer's Digital Research Initiative Results

Some functions that were more accessible and immediately helpful were the ability
to instantly trace off pieces, verify measurements, offset lines, and swap and
replace lines. Those functions made alterations to the digital patterns fast and easy.
KaeLeah found that drafting from a rectangle and tracing out her pattern or
extracting pattern pieces was an excellent method for drafting her basic block.
Everyone had difficulty manipulating darts in Gerber to start with. All testers
reported feeling like the program would arbitrarily work at times and not at others
which lead to a lot of ‘clicking around’ in hopes of success. In Gerber if a function
wasn’t working it was often because it wasn’t executed in the correct order or in
the correct direction, or points or lines are not the correct ‘type’ of line or point.
In traditional drafting cutters have a mental checklist of potential errors which they
work with as they draft, armhole size and shape, the balance of horizontal
measurements etc. Visually they look to see if everything looks and feels correct
based on years of acquired knowledge, and double check anything suspect.
Prolonged experience will provide digital cutters with a new mental checklist of
potential errors to guide their work in the virtual workspace.
Slash and spread darts in CLO
Pattern Editing Tools
Cloning, & Tracing in CLO
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