Script for parametric design of a dress sew pattern

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I usually use CLO 3D for fashion creation, but now I have a project where we create custom-made clothes. The user gives us his body dimensions on the website, and we have algorithms for creating custom sew pattern in few steps. Now I want to use Fusion 360 to automatically create 2D sketch of the sew pattern and export it for CNC/print.

I want:

- Import body dimensions from google sheet.

- Change dimensions in ready sew pattern design (several will be dependent on others)

- Export it to pdf/dxf

How archive best result in this task?

[PinRudolf]

Initially it sounds to me the best approach would be to create a 3d Model (driven by parameters) and a 2D drawing. Then for every unique design you can update the parameters based on the the spreadsheet.

The API supports changing the parameters (design.allParameters) , saving the design 

(document object), opening a design (documents object), exporting drawing to pdf (drawing.exportManager).

Reading spreadsheets can be done with standard Python library's.

The only thing I'm not sure of is how to model clothing in Fusion 360. (You might want to look at Surface modelling.) Fusion object have one size and don't allow for shrinking or stretching, this results in drawings of curved fabric that you can't unfold.

Autodesk has created that functionality though, it's inside both Meshmixer (free) and Inventor; but it is not yet implemented in Fusion 360. This would kind of break the workflow from your add-in. I would be very interested in a proper solution myself.

[hfcandrew]

Don't use Fusion, no need to start from scratch. There are dozens of software packages that will go from picture to a gcode for CNC.

https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+to+2d+gcode&oq=picture+to+2d+gcode&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30...