Visit us at PI Apparel NY

w a message that the username/password are wrong.Please join us at Product Innovation Apparel in New York on June 17-18; it will be a great opportunity to discover the technologies disrupting the fashion, apparel and footwear industry.

At the event, you’ll learn about the latest developments in the industry, by some of the most progressive companies around the globe. Some of our customers and partners will be speaking and leading sessions that dive into their experience with 3D and other technologies that are transforming the way we work.

Contact us to schedule a meeting at PI Apparel New York to learn more about Browzwear solutions.

Register for the event here.

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We’ll see you at LiveWorx in Boston!

 

Team Browzwear will be attending LiveWorx in Boston from June 10 to 13 and we look forward to meeting you there. LiveWorx is a one-of-a-kind digital transformation event for the industrial enterprise with more than 6500 technologists who will come together to advance their business strategies, solve challenges, establish connections, experience disruptive tech demos and redefine the future of work.

Lena Lim, Browzwear’s Chief Commercial Officer, will participate in a panel called “Unlock the Value of Digital Product Creation with Seamless Integration of 3D Design Tools and PLM” on Wednesday, June 12th at 9:00 a.m.

At the session, panelists will:
  • Discuss strategies for bringing winning products to market faster
  • Explore the role of 3D design tools in reducing cycle time
  • Look at the additional benefits to be achieved by integrating 3D tools with PLM
Participants will learn how to develop a business case to justify investment in the technology, and hear the key lessons learned along the way from experts in the field.

Contact us to schedule a meeting to learn more about Browzwear solutions at LiveWorx. For more information or to register for the event, visit https://www.liveworx.com/.

 

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Earn a 3D Apparel Design Certificate from FIT in Five Weeks

Looking for ways to expand your knowledge base? Want to get up to speed with the latest trends in apparel design? Now you can earn a 3D Apparel Design Certificate from FIT, New York’s internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business. Browzwear and FIT have teamed up to offer a new five-week course introducing you to VStitcher for more creative designs, faster time to market and less waste. In this five-week course, you will learn how to work in a 3D design environment, develop basic blocks into new garments, build fabric and trim libraries, use 3D imaging to test pattern fit across a range of activities, create and manipulate virtual samples and more. You will also learn to apply a variety of fabric textures and prints onto 3D images to see how’s garments are affected. Click here to sign up today.

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Apparel 2018 Top Innovators

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Browzwear Welcomes Kristen Ohlsson as General Manager for North America

Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising, today announced that Kristen Ohlsson has joined the company as the new General Manager for Browzwear North America. Before joining the Browzwear team, Kristen was a Senior Director of Technical Design for the Global Brands Group in New York.

She has also previously worked with Fishman & Tobin as a technical design manager and before that, as a pattern maker.

“Kristen has already proven to be a great addition to the Browzwear team,” said Sharon Lim, Browzwear CEO. “Her technical knowledge and experience working with patterns and moving up through leadership positions has prepared her for this role, and we look forward to learning from her and navigating the path ahead together.”

Kristen earned her Bachelor of Science degree with a specialization in fashion design from Philadelphia University. She has served as a member of the New York chapter of the International Association of Clothing Designers & Executives (IACDE) as well as the Technical Collaboration Board.

“I am so excited to join the Browzwear team and have spent the last few weeks meeting the team and understanding where we are today and where we want to be in five and in ten years,” Ohlsson said. “This role is the perfect intersection of technical and industry knowledge with creative design and I look forward to setting and achieving goals together. Browzwear is a pioneer of 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising, and I am proud to be a part of the movement.”

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Browzwear Welcomes Jason Cheung as New Regional Director

Browzwear, a pioneer of 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising, today announced that Jason Cheung has joined the company as the new Regional Director responsible for Hong Kong and Greater China. Before joining the Browzwear team, Jason served for a decade as the Asia Regional Director for Alvanon, a leading global apparel business and product development consultancy.

He has also previously worked with Wah Ming, ISA Swiss and MSC Ltd in various sales positions.

“We are thrilled to welcome Jason to Browzwear,” said Sharon Lim, Browzwear CEO. “His proven track record and extensive expertise in the industry are true assets and we look forward to learning from him as he leads our Hong Kong and Greater China teams forward.”

Jason earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and now resides in Hong Kong.

“I am excited to begin this next chapter in my career, working with Browzwear to bring 3D solutions to apparel brands throughout Hong Kong and China,” said Cheung. “The team is committed to the success of our partners and clients, and displays great integrity and leadership in the industry. I am proud to now be a part of it all.”

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Announcing VStitcher 7.9 and Lotta 3.9

To kick off a creative and productive new year, we are pleased to announce the release of VStitcher 7.9 and Lotta 3.9, which does not require a C2V licensing update. We listened to your feedback and suggestions and have worked hard to incorporate them into this release, where we’ve added several new features and improvements. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Highlights

  • Realistic Edges for Accurate Fit: Improved accuracy of stitch and workmanship, with more realistic and responsive edges create a better overall effect on the garment look and simulation. This improvement perfects edge details in highly stretched garments like swimwear and underwear, and mimics complex edges of combined hems including elastics, for true-to-life overall garment behavior.
  • Interactive Design in Sizes: We’ve made it faster and more intuitive to work with predefined sizes. You can now define a group of sizes to work on interactively, and then save and share it with your team.
  • 3D Styling:  You can easily make adjustments like pinching pants from multiple points, rotating sleeves, or flattening ruched fabric, or use the persistent pinch tool to lock areas during simulation.
  • Bring Layered Garments to Life: We’ve made multi-layering easier by enabling  you to individually style each layer, hide or reorder layers, control gravity, temporarily disable stitches, and more for the most attractive display.
  • Improved UI and UX including:
    • Clone by offset for internal elements which makes it easier to clone and position buttons, trims, embellishments or any other internal element or line.
    • Relax and stretch option to set edge shrinkage in terms of the relaxed and stretched target values or percentages.
    • Advanced snap capabilities so patterns snap during rotation and snap to intersections of internal elements.

Ready to get started? Get in touch with us for a demo or the downloads.

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What’s new in VStitcher 7.8 and Lotta 3.8?

Introducing VStitcher 7.8
The Browzwear team has been working hard to improve your user experience and we’re pleased to announce the release of VStitcher 7.8 and Lotta 3.8. We added several new features and improvements that we know you will enjoy.

Some of the most exciting new additions include:

Multi-Layered Materials

For all-over prints, melanges and complex stitches

With this release, VStitcher introduces the very first 3D solution for complex multi-layer materials. Simply define a group of fabric or seam layers and from then on, you can manipulate the group just like a single material or edit each layer separately. You can create complex textures that are even more true-to-life, like a melange fabric or the inseam on a pair of jeans. With multi-layer materials, designing in 3D is faster and more flexible than ever before.
Layered material drag and drop layers

3D Folded Garment View (Labs)

Vstitcher and Lotta now include a flexible template for displaying your designed garment, folded. The Labs template includes a folded, button-down shirt with several display options including collars, buttons and more.

Folded shirt options

Simulation Improvements

The latest versions of VStitcher and Lotta feature simulation improvements to performance, pleats and folds, and complex, layered garments.

Expanded API for Costing

The Open Platform API now integrates with costing engines and proprietary costing calculators. After the integration is enabled, you can display the price of a garment in real time, as it’s being developed.

Export Measurement Charts

Quickly export points of measurement CSV charts for manufacturing and production for all garment sizes.

Smart Guides

Our new alignment guides help you align shapes in relation to each other in real time transformation.

Dynamic pivot points for pattern pieces and shapes

Move the pivot point on shapes and pattern pieces for more control over rotation, positioning and resizing.

 

Rotation by pivot point

UI Improvements

We have made a bunch of improvements to the interface including fabric physics search, print keyboard shortcut, 3D view camera rotation and editing and sharing camera parameters.

More Fluent CAD Changes

Changes include converting internal lines to edges, making slices to symmetrical pieces, “folding” of pattern pieces and glueing internal lines to edges.

Improved DXF Import

We’ve made it easier to read even more varieties of CAD files in DXF, AAMA and ASTM formats, including grading information and more.

Ready to get started? Get in touch with us for a demo or the downloads.

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Digital Apparel Innovators, Browzwear and Alvanon, Announce Strategic Regional Partnership in Hong Kong and China

Singapore – Browzwear, provider of 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising and Alvanon, the global apparel business expert,  announce a new strategic regional partnership to provide their combined expert offerings throughout Hong Kong and China.

“We are excited to expand our partnership with Alvanon,” said Sharon Lim, CEO at Browzwear. “The joint offering of both fit consulting and 3D solutions will improve our customer response time and help us dynamically overcome the challenges our industry faces today.”

Under the new agreement, Alvanon will collaborate with Browzwear to leverage the power of 3D among its China and Hong Kong sales team, showrooms, marketing/forum events, press releases and other professional means and channels of trade. The company will package end-to-end solutions for prospective clients and collaborate with Browzwear to provide support and implementation plans for new clients.

“Strengthening and expanding our partnership with Browzwear made perfect sense,” said Jason Wang, Chief Operating Officer at Alvanon. “3D has the potential to transform the fashion industry, this strategic partnership will facilitate and push the conversation forward. Being able to use Browzwear’s latest technology to offer innovative solutions to our clients throughout Asia is exciting.”

About Browzwear

Browzwear’s pioneering 3D solutions for apparel design, development and merchandising are the key to a successful digital product lifecycle. Through the power of beautiful, true-to-life 3D, designers, developers, production and marketing can now collaborate effectively to deliver creative products to market faster than ever before. With Browzwear, brands and retailers around the world are connecting people and processes, reducing iterations and samples, and merchandising garments even before they are produced.

About Alvanon

Alvanon is a global consulting firm specializing in the apparel, retail and fashion sectors. Our team of strategists, analysts and technical experts equip top retailers, brands, designers and manufacturers with the knowledge, skills, advice and training necessary for them to achieve their business objectives. Founded in 2001, Alvanon has earned recognition as a trusted adviser and resource in over 30 countries crafting integrated solutions that result in speed, efficiency, profitability and growth.

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See your fabrics in true-to-life 3D with Browzwear’s new Fabric Analyzer

Browzwear Fabric Analyzer
With the new Browzwear Fabric Analyzer, it’s faster and easier than ever before to see your fabrics in true-to-life 3D.
Using patent-pending technology, we have developed the first fabric analyzer that gives you the information required for an accurate 3D simulation you can trust.
With minimum human intervention, our custom-designed Fabric Analyzer:

  • Captures the full force extension curve of the fabric sample
  • Translates the data into human-readable parameters including mass, thickness, bend, stretch, linearity and shear
  • Automatically creates a digital fabric ready to be draped in Vstitcher and turned into a 3D garment that you can see for yourself!

The Fabric Analyzer is part of our Open Platform ecosystem. You can use it to analyze any fabric, for any application including footwear and bags. In addition to the human-readable standard data, additional raw captured data of full curves is available on request. Click here to learn more or order now.

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Announcing VStitcher 7.6 and Lotta 3.6

We’re pleased to announce the release of VStitcher 7.6 and Lotta 3.6.  In addition to the very exciting addition of SmartDesign, there are new features and improvements in this release that we would like to share with you.

In this release we are also introducing Browzwear Labs, early access to new features that are still in development.  Please try them and send us your feedback!

Highlights:

  • New user experience for materials including a hoverboard Color Picker, Image Editor and Geometry Editor.
  • Fluent user experience for Pen Tool: Edit, add and remove points while drawing, with a single tool!
  • New hanger avatars: Simulate garments on a hanger with two native hanger avatars.
  • Blending mode for materials (labs): Apply overlay blending of layers such as artwork and wash effects over fabric.
  • Blender cloud rendering (labs): Render garments in the cloud and continue to work freely using an integration with RenderStreet (license required).

And there is much more!

Click here for the complete release notes.

Click here to download the new versions.

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