Design

Design and product creation through Adobe Illustrator or CLO 3D

Designers often start creating new products or collections through applications such as Adobe Illustrator. PLM for Fashion offers a plug-in to Adobe Illustrator, enabling for beginning the creation of Styles, Materials, and Trims within this plugin or connecting existing AI designs to create new products in PLM for Fashion. This Adobe Illustrator plug-in integrates with PLM for Fashion and is part of the license. Designers can add the necessary basic information and images to the relevant sections.

Alternatively, designers may start using a 3D application, such as a third-party application called CLO 3D, to which PLM for Fashion also integrates through a plugin. Both application plug-ins work with secured interfaces and logins.

Flexible view management enables you to define which Style, Material, or Trim overview fields are required in the plug-ins (like any other view in PLM for Fashion), ensuring a seamless workflow whether you work as a designer in the extension plug-ins or directly in PLM for Fashion.

For Adobe Illustrator Plugin and CLO 3D Plugin, see Integration of external applications.

Designers or others can also start creating their styles, materials, and trims using the application directly. There are multiple ways of building products, see further in Development.

Design and product creation starting in PLM for Fashion

There are multiple ways of creating styles:
  • From scratch
  • Mass creation of styles

    • Use for massively creating new styles

    • You can select one or more source styles to copy from

    • The maximum number of copies that can be made is 99 in one mass creation task, unless the number is set to another value

    • Users with no permission to access a certain cluster cannot copy that cluster

  • Copy or variation

    • Use for copying an existing style or for making a copy and tagging it as a variation

    • You can select different clusters that can be copied. Users with no permission to a certain cluster cannot copy that cluster

    • You define copy templates

    • You can specify if the value of a field should be blank for a copy

  • Carryover

    • Use for carrying over an existing style to another season. You can define which colors should be carried over

    • You can carry over these items

      • A style or color to a new season (with either new ID or new season, or same ID or new season)

      • A style (including all colors, with either new ID or new season, or same ID or new season)

      • Carried-over items are part of the ‘relationship’ so that you can clearly see where it all originates from

  • Mass carryover
  • Mass update

    • Use to replace and or add information to existing styles

    • Users with no permission to access a certain cluster cannot mass update that cluster

Materials and Trims can start either in PLM or the plugins. You can create these items from scratch or copied.

Even if created in PLM, created styles, materials, and trims can be used and seen in Adobe Illustrator and CLO Plug-ins, where you can add images, sketches, drawings, notes, and other items.

Style Images

A style may have different types of images. These types are pre-defined sections in the Image section: Style images, sketches, technical drawings, construction, artwork, style color images, pattern, and other images. Each section is set by permission, so different roles may have different access rights to those image sections.

In Images, you can add these components in each section:

  • One or more images for each subsection, except colors per style colorway to one image

  • Add comments and notes to the images

  • Annotate the image and save the annotated image as a new image

  • Identify the position (back, front, left side, etc.)

  • Indicator if they should show on a report

  • Indicator if the image is annotated

The style image sections are also used in Adobe Illustrator Plugin and the 3rd party solution of CLO. From the plugins, the mapping of the layers or artboards drives where the sketch, drawing, artwork image, and etc. ends up in the Style. The images added to a style are visible directly from the PLM document Library and in the style background files stored in Infor Document Management.