Melbourne-based
CAD/CAM provider Fashion Matters, which is well known for its entry level
fashion design software package Fashion Toolbox, has launched a new product
called Studio.
Sitting in
between the Fashion Toolbox and Fashion Matters’ more advanced software
package, the CM32 (which is priced at around $6000), the Studio is based on the
popular CM32 Prints software and has twice as many features as the Fashion
Toolbox. It will ne priced at around $4000.
Fashion Matters
managing director, Mitchell Dobelsky, says it will ne very similar to the CM32
version 1.9 Prints module. “Effectively it’s got all of the
functions that you need to work with yardage repeats, placement prints, repeats,
colour changes and three dimensional colour changes like photographic colour
changes,” he says. “However, it doesn’t have knits, weaving,
draping, layers – all the new mod cons that we’ve introduced over
the last year.”
Other
modules cannot plug into the software – to get to these other modules
users will have to upgrade to the full version. Upgrades will be available to
the full version for the difference in price.
Dobelsky
said the software had been designed to allow smaller businesses to enter the
high end of fashion design. “One of the things that we found since we
entered into this business is that people wanted choice. There are quite a
number of people, when they purchased the Fashion Toolbox, who wanted a number
of extra functions (but not the full CM32 package),” he says. “With
Studio you will get around twice the number of features as the Toolbox, but not
three times the number which you will get with the full CM32.”
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