RMIT has taken a
further step into the CAD arena with the implementation of 20 Fashion Toolbox
software systems from Fashion Matters at its Brunswick Campus.
Fashion Matters
managing director Mitchell Dobelsky says the 20 systems will join an existing
five, signaling an increasing awareness of the importance of CAD
education. Fashion Toolbox is an entry level fashion design product aimed at
providing an all-in-one illustration/imaging/layout program, with tools such as
repeat creation, fabric scanning, and colour change and manipulation. The
Fashion Toolboxes will initially be used for RMIT’s short courses, though
they will eventually be shared with fulltime courses as the Brunswick campus.
Dobelsky says the
product was primarily chosen for its ease of use. “If you are going to
teach someone in a short course how to use CAD product, you don’t want
something that has 2000 different functions – you want to use something
that has 15 functions you can concentrate on. Then they can at least appreciate
what it can do.”
Dobelsky said another
attraction was that students can afford to buy the product after they learn on
it. “We have a student discount, which is $795 as opposed to $995,”
he says. “So if they want to invest in it and use it for their own fashion
design at school or in a small business, they can afford to do it.”
