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  Age Technologies Inc. : Maker of Clicdesign module which turn Adobe Photoshop®, Element® into a specialized CAD system, whether in the apparel, textile, home furnishings or even surface design industry. Their Clicdesign module for Adobe Photoshop are:

- PlaidMaker Pro: Enable designers to create their own fabric weavings. Designers can create any type of yarn dye fabrics like plain, sateen, diamond, twill, basket, herringbone and more with great ease.

- MotifStudio: Enables textile designer to quickly and easily repeat images, including cascading repetitions, rotations, superimpositions, and horizontal or vertical image inversions.

- ColorVision: Enables designers to recolor scanned fabrics or images without having to reduce the number of colors and most importantly, without loosing their original textures and shadings.

- StyleDraper Pro: Enables designers to apply virtually any kind of fabric to a live model, so they can display new designs with their existing models, therefore creating an infinite range of samples.

- ColorChart: Enables designers to easily manage and match colors within the entire range of HSB colors and quickly retrieve any one of the 3600 colors with the corresponding Photoshop Swatches file.

Address: 80 Queen, Suite 502, Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3C2N5 Phone: 514-339-1333 Fax: 514-339-5445 E-mail: clicdesign@mvm.com  Contact : Eric Nardone, Alain Belair 


  AllCAD Technologies, Ltd (United Kingdom) : Software and equipment for the textile and electrical industries. Design, drawing, plotting and scanning software and systems for embroidery manufacturers. Detailed system specifications.


  AMSystems, Inc (USA) : Developers of cut planning software for the apparel manufacturing industry. Description of program capabilities and options.


  APSO :  Their team includes specialists in Hardware, Software, Networks, NT Operating Systems, Software Development, Web Technology, Textile Design, Graphic Design and Project Management. We have successfully completed many outstanding projects for a diverse range of clients within the Textile Industry.


  Arahne, d.o.o.(Slovenia) : Arahne develops CAD/CAM system for dobby and jacquard weaving. Go to their web page to look at their fabric simulations, study on-line step by step tutorials and download a free demo. Address: Staniceva 17 Ljubljana SI-1000 Slovenia Phone: +386-1-439-5280 Fax: +386-1-439-6119 Email: arahne@arahne.si  Contact: Anton Gregorcic



  Artlandia, Inc. (USA) : Developers of Artlandia SymmetryWorks, an Adobe Illustrator plug-in for creating designs in repeat. Demo download, tutorials and other pattern design resources.  The user creates a motif and the plug-in immediately puts it in repeat. All types of repeats are supported.  They have recently released Artlandia SymmetryShop, a new plug-in that makes pattern design in Adobe Photoshop easy and fully automatic. Similar to its Illustrator counterpart, SymmetryShop relieves the designer from the tedium of manually creating repeat patterns, a painstaking task that involves thousands of precise geometric transformations that used to make interactive experimentation with patterns virtually impossible.Contact:  Olga Bakshee E-mail:  artlandia@artlandia.com


  Artex (United Kingdom) : Text Style is a design software which enables fashion design, textile, fabrics and any industry that uses digital print to create new designs from digital artwork.  Artext is based in London, United Kingdom. Specialist in creative graphics, motion graphics, print and all things design.  Artext is the name give to a new powerful format which allows you to convert full colour photos and images in colour text. What makes Artext unique is that you are able to input any message you want. Once converted to the Artext format, the result is in text format which looks like the original photo, but becomes a readable version with your thoughts and words.

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  Aspire2 (United Kingdom) : Developers of software for needle-works and embroidery design and production. Demo downloads.  List of trade shows. Links to stitch designers' sites.


  Astor Technologies : Astor Technologies is a Cad manufacturer based in India offering solutions in the areas of Digitizing, Pattern creation, Grading and Marking systems.  They have also tied up with leading manufacturers for supply of Digitizers, plotters, spreaders and CNC cutters. Astor has a number of installations in India and one of the leading players in the field.  e-mail: astor@md3.vsnl.net.in Contact: S.Vasudevan


  Audaces (Brazil) : The principal focus of AUDACES is the development of software solutions for the automation of industrial activities, using products developed with the highest technology. The users of Audaces products are from the most diverse industrial sectors, including the apparel / textile, furniture, metal-mechanical, glass, transport and paper industries, among others.


  Autometrix (USA) :  Developers of CAD software for patterns, sail and awning design. Also, precision cutting systems, and plotters and digitizers. Download of software, program updates and tutorials.


  Balarad VI  (Slovak Republic) : Software for the embroidery industry. Lettering, splitting, editing, printing and converting of designs. Demo download. Tutorial videos and books.  Also, custom and in-stock embroidery designs.


  Bontex (Italy) Are you looking for a superior Textile CAD system or a dedicated software to create and manage your new garment collection, a powerful database solution for your images archive or your products catalogue to be published on the local network or in Internet ? Here you will find the best selection of software and services to satisfy your needs. Bontex is a market leader in Italy for Textiles & Fashion software solutions and for large Images Archiving and communication database. From our headquarters based in Milan they distribute and service from over 30 years a complete range of professional solutions, products and services.

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  CadCam Technology, Ltd (United Kingdom) : Developers of stitch editing, punching and organizing software for the embroidery industry.


  Cadterns Custom Cloting, Inc (Canada) :  Developers of software for the creation of flat patterns, drafted to personal measurements, and fit and style requirements.  On-line learning for recreational fashion designers.


  Compucon SA (Greece) : Developers of software for embroidery designers and manufacturers. Programs for design, lettering, anthology and sampling. Download area for software updates.


  Computer Consulting and Software (USA) :  Developers of sales order, inventory, purchase order and production software programs for the apparel manufacturing and distribution industries. Also, training services for Open Systems Accounting Software.


  Datas, Ltd (Romania) :  Developers of software programs for production performance analysis applications in the garment manufacturing industry.


  Eastman Machine Company : Eastman Machine Company manufactures a wide range of manual and automated cutting machines, spreading equipment, material handling systems and CAD/CAM software. From the industry standard Blue Streak Straight Knife to fully automated, computerized cutting systems, Eastman has the answer for your fabric cutting needs. Eastman is serving the apparel, aerospace, automotive, marine, industrial fabrics, composites, furniture and pool & spa industries.   Address:  779 Washington Street Buffalo, New York 14203 USA
Phone: 716-856-2200 Fax: 716-856-1140  Email:  contact@eastmancuts.com   Contact: Elizabeth Hagen 
  • Manufacturer Item # 1: Cutting Equipment
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  • Manufacturer Item # 3: Spreading Machines
  • Manufacturer Item # 4: Straight Knives
  • Manufacturer Item # 5: Round Knives
  • Manufacturer Item # 6: Roatary Shears
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  ESS, Ltd (United Kingdom) : Developers of an integrated package of software programs for the embroidery industry. Design, display, preparation, machine selection and tracking, and cost evaluation tools. Also, asbestos management software.


  Fashion CAD (Australia) : Fashion CAD software for computerized pattern making for the apparel and garment manufacturing industries.  FashionCAD is an integrated suite of software which includes pattern design, pattern grading, pattern detailing, pattern layout and a fully featured CAD drafting system. FashionCAD is an innovative CAD approach to pattern making which provides the flexible tools to create and modify pattern designs and to shorten the time cycle for all pattern making processes, such as grading.


  Fashionmark Solutions Inc. (Canada) : they offer full 1st Pattern, grading and marking services for local and North American customers. They have been in business for of over 5 years with each one of their staff having over 15 years experience in manufacturing. Wide range of styles including Womens Sportswear, Mens Streetwear, Technical Outerwear, Childrens, and specialty. Services include Sizing Consultation, Specification Drawings, Graded Measurement Charts, Import and Export, Pattern publishing, Digitizing and Plotting. CAD System used: Optitex/Tukacad, Karatcad, Adobe with Hardpaper plotting capabilities. Address: #301-343 Railway Street Vancouver, BC V6A 1A4 Canada Phone: 604-683-9279 Fax: 604-683-9201 Email: diane@fashionmark.com


  Fashion Matters (Australia) : Fashion Matters sells and supports the complete range of Colour Matters Fashion and Textile CAD and Design Room software to the Apparel, Textile and General clothing Industries, fashion colleges and students throughout Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Thailand and Malaysia. Colour Matters CAD software is specific to the Fashion Industry, and is substantially easier to learn than off-the-shelf CAD software like Illustrator, Corel or Photoshop. All CM software is fully supported (telephone, fax, email and personal attendance), and is upgraded regularly, generally with the help of suggestions from our more than 6000 users in 18 countries globally. Working hand-in-hand with the most advanced and pro-active Universities and Fashion Colleges around the world also allows us to maintain close links with developments in the world of education. As a result, Students and Teachers worldwide are given priority access to our software through generous discounts. Please feel free to enquire about our products: Fashion Toolbox, CM32 Professional and DesignSpecs Workbook. Contact Name: Özlem Ruiz-Hasan or Mitchell Dobelsky E-mail: admin@fashionmatters.com.au  Head Office: Fashion Matters 1st Floor, 286a Kings Way South Melbourne Vic Australia 3205 Tel: +61 3 9696 9033 Fax: +61 3 9696 9133 Australia: Fashion Matters 1st Floor, 286a Kings Way South Melbourne Vic Australia 3205 Tel: +61 3 9696 9033 Fax: +61 3 9696 9133 New Zealand: Identity Solutions Lower Ground, 79 Grafton Road, Auckland New Zealand Tel: +64 9 358 3493

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  Gemini CAD Systems : GEMINI CAD is a computerized system for designing, digitizing, grading and automatic nesting & pattern marking for apparel industry.


  GRAFIS (Germany) is a software for pattern construction, grading and layplanning running on standard Personal Computers under Windows95 and above. It contains an extensive range of functions for pattern cutting and modification and is available at a very competitive price. Therefore, GRAFIS is in use in industry as well as in trade and education.

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  Investronica Sistemas SA / Invescol: Advanced CAD, CAM and CIM solutions and systems for the apparel, upholstery, car, aeronautics and related industries.  INVESTRONICA SISTEMAS  is a Spanish company created in 1980, specializing in the development of CAD design tools (Computer Assisted Design), CAM systems (Computer Assisted Manufacturing) and CIM projects (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) for the apparel and upholstery industries, as well as for others such as automobile, aeronautics, etc.   The Company currently has Delegations and Distributors in over 50 countries, while INVESTRONICA CAD, CAM and CIM systems are present at over 6.000 client sites around the world and in all five continents.  Address: ESPAÑA Madrid C/ Tomás Bretón 62  28045 Madrid  Phone:  91 774 85 00 Fax: 91 774 84 00 e-mail: investronica-sis@investronica-sis.es

  • ITALIA INVESTRONICA SISTEMAS  (Sede Secondaria I) STRADA VII, PALAZZO T1 20089 ROZZANO MILANOFIORI (MI) - ITALIA Phone.: 39 02 8228391 FAX.: 39 02 822839280 E-MAIL:investonica@investrónica.it

  • BENELUX Precam Building St. Pieterswliet 7. BUS 11 B-2000 Antwerpen Belgique  Phone : 323 225 0652 Fax: 323 225 3270 e-mail: info@investronica-sis.be

  • USA INVESTRONICA INC. 5875 Peachtree Industrial BLV Suite 350 Norcross Georgia 30092 Phone: 1770 24 20 798 Fax: 1770 24 21 912  e-mail: jbrearley@investronicausa.com

  • CHINA INVESTRONICA SHANGHAI Marine Tower 608 1 Pudong Ave Shanghai 200120-China Phone: 86 21 68860138 Fax: 86 24 68860141 e-mail: jgarcia@inveschina.com

  • COLOMBIA INVESCOL DIAG 57#1-60 ESTE BOGOTÀ COLOMBIA TELF/FAX 57 1 345 12 13 MOVIL  57 3 231 00 62 E-MAIL:  info@invescol.com

  • Maroc Investronica sistemas 51, Boulevard Mohammed V 90000 - Tanger Téléphone 212 39 94 45 76 Fax 212 39 32 42 08 e-mail: invmaroc@iam.net.ma


  Mechanix (USA) : Developers of windows compatible design software for the apparel and fashion industry. Detailed program descriptions, galleries, and free demo.


  Moritz Embroidery Works, Inc (USA) : Developers of software and systems for the computerized embroidery industry. Also, custom embroidered and screen printed promotional sportswear, and emblems, patches and logos.


  Nirvana Technologies Private Ltd. : Nirvana Technologies Pvt. Ltd. specializes in providing nesting software, material optimization technologies and custom software development services to CAD / CAM vendors world-wide.   In addition to their nesting technology, they have developed many complex engineering analysis applications for their clients.


  OptiTex USA Inc. (formerly known as Scanvec Garment Systems) : specializes in the development of innovative, easy-to-operate, CAD/CAM solutions for sewn products and other related industries.  Their Microsoft Windows™ based software packages for digitizing, pattern engineering, grading, marking, and advanced automatic nesting are specifically designed to meet the needs of today's manufacturers of industrial fabrics, apparel, upholstery, transportation, composites, home furnishings, and other sewn products.  Address: 325 West 38th St, Suite 1107, NY, NY 10018 Phone : 1-212-629-9053 Fax: 1-212-629-9055 Contact : Sales Dept. Email: optitex.usa@optitex.com 


  Pad System : PAD System's mission is to offer high technological level CAD/CAM solutions that are efficient, simple and flexible to all individuals and companies involved in the apparel, textiles and leather industry as well as in 3D computer graphics. PAD System evolves with its customer. They believe that, through a personalized approach and by offering continuous first class support and training, PAD System and its clients will grow together with success.

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  Pattern Works is a garment design and pattern drafting service available to small manufacturers, pattern companies and designers. Pattern Works creates, sells and supports computer-aided design software, PWstudio, for both the educational and business communities. Pattern Works publishes educational support materials relating to CAD and the apparel field, and conducts workshops in CAD software.

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  Photoshop / Illustrator  (Adobe) : Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the Photoshop digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.


  Pointcarre USA : is one of the largest developer of Textile and apparel design software in the USA. Whether your goal is creating repeats, colorways, tonals, or separations they have software to fit your needs. Their technical Dobby and jacquard software interfaces with many of the machinery in the market.  Their software creates realistic fabric simulations of wovens, knits and prints, like never before seen.  Address: 1430 Broadway - Suite 306 New York, NY 10018 Phone # 212-398-6680   Email:  mail@pointcarre.com   Contact:  Steve Greenberg - President

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  • Manufacturer Item # 2: Print Design Software
  • Manufacturer Item # 3: Dobby Software
  • Manufacturer Item # 4: Jacquard Software
  • Manufacturer Item # 5: Texture Mapping Software
  • Manufacturer Item # 6: Image Management Software
  • Manufacturer Item # 7: Knit Design Software

  Polygon Software and Technology (USA) : Computer technology for the fashion industry. Software for marking, grading, optimizing, design and costing. Also, plotting and scanning systems.


  Prima Design Systems, Ltd (Hong Kong) : Color CAD systems for the apparel and fashion industry. Integrated solutions for style selection, weaving and knitting designs, and color development. Deatiled product descriptions.


  Proel Srl (Italy) : Software for design and manufacture of embroidery. Also, laser cutting and engraving equipment. Comprehensive product descriptions.


  Pulse Microsystems (USA) : Developers of software for embroidery design, design management and production. Detailed product information. On-line support and e-commerce services. List of global agents and distributors.


  http://www.questcadcam.com/


  Reach Technologies (India)  is one of the largest apparel software company in India.   REACH is funded by Mr. N.S. Raghavan, Co-founder and former Joint Managing Director, Infosys. REACH clients include Gokaldas Images, Zodiac Clothing, Arvind Brands, Sonal Garments, Sailakshmi Creations, Texport Garments and Francis Wacziarg among many many others. REACH solutions enable apparel companies cut costs, increase revenue, enhance quality, retain customers, and assist in anticipating opportunities by creating a real-time extended enterprise.

REACH CAD is the software tool for pattern engineering, grading and marker planning for minimizing fabric consumption and supplying the sewing sections with accurate cut parts. REACH Cut Planner is the proven industry standard Cut Planning tool that uses techniques in combinatorial optimization and decision support to let you save significant quantities of fabric. REACH Merchandising Manager is the integrated Merchandising Management solution for effectively streamlining and integrating merchandising processes and optimally utilizing resources.

  Rich Peace Technology Limited : was founded by six individual share holders in Hongkong in year 1992.Since her dubet , the company set her business scope as providing Texitile and Garment CAD/CAM total solutions to the world. With “Honesty & Credit ; Professionism & Devotion; Stability & Healthy; Creativity & Innovation” as company motto, the company started from Embroidery products and has expanded the product lines into four major product series. Embrodiery series; Garment series; Quilting series and Flat knitting series.


  Scott M. Ritter Software (USA) : Design software for the screen printing and embroidery industry. Free downloads of in-stock and clip-art designs.


  Shen Zhen Triumph Co. Ltd. (China) :  As the manufacturer of apparel plotter and digitizer from China, they would like to invite you to visit their website and check their plotter and digitizers..  Their plotter and digitizers are compatible with PAD, Optitex and other CAD softwares. As a professional supplier of Apparel CAD/CAM system and service, In 2003, Shen Zhen Triumph Industrial Co., LTD founded the ShenZhen docad service center, with a huge of investment this center has attracted the cream of the nation's talent in all apparel manufacturing disciplines.  They pioneered that a user-friendly and easy-to-learn software that enables user to directly make a pattern by size-table in the computer. Docadsystem pattern making process is ahead of other brand. The user can directly make a pattern in the computer according to customers' size-table. Hence, it requires only one digital pattern maker to finish the whole task. By doing so, it can save man-made pattern, fiber board, and adhesive paper. Using Docadsystem lowers buyers' labor, material and financial resources.  One feature of the easy to modify pattern process enables user to digital auto-grading in NUMBER and SHAPE. After making the pattern in any size in the computer, the user can immediately accurately doing the fast and limitless multi-sections auto-grading according to the size data.

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  ShopWorks LLC (USA) : Developers of business software for the screen printing, embroidery and promotional products industries. Order management, job quoting and production control, purchasing, shipping and receiving, and accounting programs. On-line demos. Prices and FAQ. List of trade shows.


  Sierra Srl (Argentina) : Developers of digitizing software programs for design, presentation and production in the embroidery industry. Password protected customer area. English, Spanish and Portuguese.


  SIMANDY SRL (Romania) : Simandy is a modern multimedia outsource in the marketing & consulting field managed by Italian professionals, operating in the clothing sector, articulating its intervention on diverse operative streams such as CAD technology, quality control and research for new clothing garments, accessories and other components.  Simandy is particularly specialized in CAD (Computer Assisted Design) services: pattern making, pattern grading, and marker making. The CAD center is equipped with Investronica Investmark software, five graphic design servers, managed by Romanian specialists and coordinated by an Italian professional. Simandy is highly specialized in woman pret-a-porte design, and is in contact with the best worldwide fashion- houses exclusively using modern communication technology, as the internet, for information and files’ exchange. Simandy is in fact an outsource –adviser and consultant for on-line specialized clothing product presentation, using the best worldwide data bases, offering the clients constant commercial and technical information. Simandy deals, in particular, with imports and sales of high quality Italian garments.  Address: Sos. Viilor, nr. 56, corp B, et.1 tel: 0788315369 tel/fax: 337 15 68 e-mail: simandy@simandy.com  or  simandy@hotmail.com  Contact person: Vanni Bianchi


  SnapFashun Inc.  SnapFashun is software program for the fashion industry.  It works along with Adobe Illustrator to provide a interactive reference library as well as browser to store sketches. All SnapFashun Libraries include both details and items that can be “snapped” together, manipulated, altered and resized, so students can develop their own designs and portfolios. Also it quickly and easily teaches students the indispensable tools of Illustrator that the fashion industry requires. This teamed with their learning the correct names of fashion details and silhouettes is the beginning that gives them the verbal and technical skills required to work in the industry . All libraries include: a hard copy of the contents of the library, a manual, and a CD.  SnapFashun® provides interactive fashion libraries of women’s, men’s and kid’s items based on BGA’s 25 years of fashion reporting experience covering the hottest selling items and details from Europe, Los Angeles and runway.  All SnapFashun Libraries work as a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator for Mac and Windows. All sketches are drawn to scale allowing for easy manipulation, alteration, and the interchanging of components for quick and accurate design generation.    Address: 7551 W. Sunset Blvd., Suite 203 L.A., CA 90046 Tel: 323-882-6620 Fax: 323-882-6712 Contact: Bill Glazer Email: sales@snapfashun.com 

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  SoftArt Associates (USA) :Windows compatible software program for pattern and color design of needlework and embroidery.


  Softeam Sas (Italy) : Developers of software for embroidery, signage, engraving and multimedia applications. Programs for embroidery design, lettering and production. List of distributors and trade shows. Free, on-line updates.


  Tanya Geometrik P Ltd : they are manufacturers of a CAD software for Apparel Industry and are based in Chennai. India.   Their Company's flagship CAD S/W "TANYA CONTOUR" has been well received in Chennai, Tirupur and Bangalore in India for its practicality , user friendliness and state of the art features. They are the latest entrants and have started marketing their S/W only for the past 9 months.  This software helps the garment manufacturing companies to draft patterns, grade them and make Markers which will enable them to optimise their fabric usage and reduce wastage.  Address:  Plot A-71, VI Street, Periyar NagarChennai 600 082 India Phone:  91-44-550 2080 Email:  jg@tanyageo.com  or ted@tanyageo.com Contact:   J.Ganesan; President


  Viable Systems Inc. : leading manufacturer of CAD/CAM systems for the design of Jacquard woven fabrics.  They have taken the best ideas from leading Jacquard weavers around the world and combined them with over a quarter century of experience to create the most advanced design systems available.  Their powerful textile designing tools enable their customers to produce Jacquard fabrics of remarkable beauty by stimulating creativity, dramatically compressing production time, and ensuring the highest degree of technical accuracy.


  Wilcom Pty., Ltd (Australia) : Developers of software for design, production, management and e-commerce solutions in the embroidery industry. Also, software for carpet and rug design.


  Wild Ginger Software, Inc (USA) : Custom development of software for sewing pattern creation. Also, digitizing, plotting and body scanning equipment.

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