apparel

Apparel follows the order a tailor works in: cut flat pieces, sew their edges together, let the cloth fall. Each stage is a mode, and each leaves its result in the timeline, so you can go back and change a seam or a fabric and re-drape.

pattern

Choose Apparel ▸ Pattern ("Flat pieces, seams and notches"). It's a 2D workspace seen from above. Draw each piece as a closed outline with the sketch tools, then press Draft pattern: every closed loop becomes a piece, and a loop inside another becomes a hole.

tool	key	adds
Notch	<kbd>N</kbd>	a mark on an edge, to match pieces
Grain line	<kbd>G</kbd>	the direction of the weave
Label	<kbd>L</kbd>	a name on a piece
Buttons · Buttonholes	<kbd>B</kbd>	placed by clicking the piece
Embroidery		a logo stitched onto a piece, from a picture's dark marks (auto, satin or fill stitch)
Seam allowance		extra width round each piece, 10 mm by default
Grade		resize the pattern to XS, S, M, L or XL by its grade rules

Per piece you can set a fabric, a cut quantity and whether it is mirrored. The pattern exports a DXF cut file and an SVG, which you ask the modeler to declare. Already have a design in CLO 3D or Marvelous Designer? Import CLO reads a .zprj: its outlines and seams become an ordinary pattern, and its finished drape comes in as a fixed result.

garment

Choose Apparel ▸ Garment ("Sew the pieces onto the avatar").

1. Arrange (<kbd>A</kbd>) places the pieces round a body. Pattern is the pattern to use and Avatar is any body in the model: a mannequin you imported or built from primitives. Layout is Ring around the avatar, Front / back or Row, with a Gap of 60 mm. Drag a piece's frame to adjust it.
2. Sew (<kbd>W</kbd>) joins two edges: click Side A and Side B on the flat pattern. The panel shows both lengths and warns when they differ by more than 10%. Reverse flips side B if the seam twists. Ease gathers extra length of A into the middle of the seam. Mirror A and Mirror B pick the mirrored copy of a piece.
3. Pin (<kbd>P</kbd>) holds points at positions in space while the cloth falls, for a drawstring or a gathered neck. Ease in (s) moves the pins to their targets over time instead of snapping them.

drape

Choose Apparel ▸ Drape ("Simulate the cloth"). The Simulate panel takes the Garment, an optional Collider (the body it hangs on, and anything else it falls over) and a Preset: Cotton, Denim, Silk, Jersey, Leather, Canvas or Muslin. Sliders refine Stretch, Bend, Weight (30–1000 g/m²), Thickness, Damping and Friction; Reset to preset undoes them.

Solver settings: Spacing (triangle size, 8 mm; 2–50), Duration (3 s; 0.1–30), Frames / s (30; up to 60), Gravity, Substeps (4), Iterations (8), Seam ramp and Stop when settled. A Floor adds a surface at a height you choose.

Press Bake. A progress bar counts frames, then Play scrubs the result (<kbd>Space</kbd>). Unchanged inputs return a cached bake instantly; any change to the pattern, seams, pins, body or settings bakes again.

Exports: GLB (the draped cloth), the DXF cut file, and a render.

limits & good to know

• No self-collision. Cloth can pass through itself, and a thin or sparse collider can let it slip through. Give a body a solid surface, raise Thickness for loose fabrics, or add a broad stand-in shape.
• Fabric colour is paint only; changing it never re-bakes.
• Bakes are physics, not a fit guarantee. Check seam lengths first: they sew cleanly when sides match within 10%.
• An imported CLO drape is shown as it came; ixi doesn't re-simulate it.

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