Expert: Bill DeShawn - 7/10/2008

Question
Hi, i've read over thirty questions and answers, needless to say I can't beleive I thought i'd self teach myself ACAD. When people with many years of experience still have problems using ACAD. Well here's my question, i'm brimming over with fashion designs in my head, and no way to express them.(i can't sketch by hand)A friend of mine suggested ACAD because as she put it and I now know different you just enter in the info and it draws it for you...what a joke. Well in your opinion for fashion is ACAD the training I should be seeking or would some other program be the best fit fot fashion design. I searched to see if anyone had already answered this type of questions. I didn't see any. Help me PLEASE??

Answer
AutoCAD is a program that is fantastic if you have geometry that you want to represent in 2-D or 3-D.  However, I don't really equate clothing with geometry.  I did a Google search for "fashion design software" (with the quotes) and came up with these:
http://www.capterra.com/fashion-design-and-production-software
http://ezinearticles.com/?Get-Fashion-Design-Software-and-Design-Clothes-Like-a-...
http://www.optitex.com/
http://www.startingaclothingline.com/
http://www.fashioncad.net/
http://www.edrawsoft.com/fashion.php
Free download: http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=4976

This one is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator:
http://www.snapfashun.com/snapfashun.html


There are a whole lot more, but you can do the remainder of the searching.  I'm an AutoCAD guy.  :)

Good luck to you.

Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn