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Taz Poltorak

One thing I would like to do is to arrange all parts of a pattern in such a way that the longest sides are touching and the waste is minimised. That would be cool.

In that case let's see if AI can take this job away from expensive CAD solutions and provide it for free to anyone, that would be great 😃

@TazPoltorak yes, I bet there's an entire school of mathematics about solving dress patterns!

@rhamphorhynchus @TazPoltorak afaik there is, and it is an hard problem

valentina (valentinaproject.bitbucket.io/) has a layout tool that iirc was designed to be usable for both laying the pieces on paper to be printed and to do the layout for fabric, but in some cases I've been able to get a more efficient design myself by hand :(

afaik commercial pattern CAD programs, that are definitely not cheap, also come with a layout program, and it's a pretty important part of the suite

valentinaproject.bitbucket.ioValentina

@TazPoltorak FWIW many professional pattern drafting CAD apps have this ability already.