Hey everybody, this video is going to be
about how to make a marker in closed software. There's two different kind of ways to look at
this, we can make one marker that holds different sizes like your small, medium, and large, all
shared, kind of like you're trying to get it ready for production. Or another way is why not take
small, medium large and nest them all together. And then that way, you could save it as a PDF
file to possibly sell on Etsy. You know, if you want to design patterns to sell to retail, kind
of like the type of patterns, you'd buy Joanne's fabrics. So wanted to show both options are pretty
similar, and you can do them in the same spot. To get started, you know, especially if you're
going to do the SC version, I would recommend naming your pattern pieces. So I'm just here in
the regular simulation mode, I'm under fabric, I can click a pattern piece. And under Property
Editor, it'll have name, the default name for me is like pattern 2d underscore 716. So you know,
I might want to change that name to sleep. Okay, and then to see that is on
the 2d side on this toggle menu, under I just the first one show pattern name,
you might want to make sure that's there. You know, another thing too, if you don't want to
do it in this program, and you are trying to get it ready to like sell to retail. Maybe once you do
have them nested, you could open up that PDF file in Adobe Illustrator and use their fonts so that
you can kind of match it more to your branding, or stylists thetic. That's an option too. But just
to stay organized, it's not a bad idea to go ahead and name your pieces. So naming your pieces.
If you want to add seam allowance, get that added first as well. And make sure it's graded.
Okay, so let's go ahead and make that marker. So to do it, it's going to be under Print
Layout. And honestly, that kind of confused me at first because I'm so used to the word
marker. But I guess Print Layout makes sense to if you think about it, because you know, maybe
when you sew it, you really want to match up like your prints, say it's like stripes, so
you want the stripes to match on the side seam. So you're going to lay out the pattern
pieces on the fabric accordingly. So I mean, I guess the word or vocabulary phrase Print Layout
makes sense. Just for me, I think marker. So it took a little learning curve for me to be like, Oh
yeah, go to print layout if you want to do this. So Print Layout, here we are. So here's all our
pattern pieces. So we do have the option to just manually drop them if we want to do that. And you
can see I made the fabric a little bit longer to showing Oh, you're going to need point six five
yards fabric to cut this one sleeve, right. So you can do that you can even right click and
rotate the pattern pieces as well. So there we go. And just kind of really squeeze them in
manually. Right now our fabric is set to be 45 inches wide. Where did that go? I'm gonna make
this a little taller. So we can see that again. Okay, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. I was
probably at the top. Here we are. Okay, so the role defaulted to 44 inches. Again,
this is probably good for those of you guys that want to target, you know, retail sowers not really
for production. But if you're gonna prepare this for production, maybe your roll of fabric is
wider. So you can choose however wide you want it, you can choose a custom measurement as well, but
they put in some common defaults there for you. I think for the sample, I'll go
ahead and stick with 44 inches wide. Okay, so we can manually do it. Or of course,
there is automatic one way as well. If you guys notice my cursor, there's a little icon
next to it. Now it's like a triangle. That just kind of default happened because we are
in the Print Layout drop down menu. So I'm in this tool with it, I can click and drag. And then I
can right click, and I can say nest all patterns. Okay, for me, I just want one of each garment.
Okay, the space, probably to save fabric, I'm going to leave it at zero and see what
happens. And then ness all the grading sizes is off. Well. I actually want them all on because
I want to see smalls being cut out mediums and large all on the same marker. You know, to help
save space having more pattern pieces might help me get my consumption percentage up higher. So
this is kind of a setup for a production run. Okay, now, I will warn you if your grading is
not set up the right way use automatic grading, you're not going to see you're
only going to see your base size here you're not going to see also the small
and the medium. I think my base size is large. So we'll see what happens. Let's see if mine
was set up right. Like I'll say proceed. Hey, okay, let's look at this. So right now it
says my consumption is at 70% 69.9. Is that good. So based on research, I found an academic report
that I'm happy to share with you guys that they, from their research, they would say high 80s
is better. And in order to get that, there's some tricks that you have to do to get all your
pieces to fit. They pull from other garments that use the same fabric, their particular garments
they were using also have smaller pieces like collars and cuffs, our garment has pretty large
pieces. So it's kind of No wonder, I'm just gonna say close right now, zoom out. So like I have
this whole space right here that's just wasted. In my experience of using the automatic
grater, and different software programs, I can usually get it in the 70s, maybe high 70s.
But it looks like for industry, you really want to be in the 80s. So this is somebody's job to make a
marker. And you can really save a company a lot of money if you can get your efficiency rate high.
So if you're really good at Tetris, and love, you know, puzzles, like maybe this is
a good sector for you to look into. Okay, so like I said, I'm supposed to have three
sizes here, it looks like I only have my size large here. So my grading was not set correctly.
And I'm glad that this happened, because I want to show you what to do if this happens to you. Okay,
so I'm going to go back to the grading tab. And, okay, so I'm going to go to simulation mode.
And I'm going to select the size large. And I'm going to choose this little button
right here. assigned to selected pattern. I can, let's see, I'm zooming out,
you will select them all assign. Okay, this will work now.
Okay. So let me try that again. Now I'm going to select size me
see it gave it all these little grading points. When I did the automatic grader,
it didn't already have all those little grading points. So I'm going to select them all again,
I'm going to click medium this time as my base. And I'm just going to pick this
little Assign button again. And then for fun, I'm going to do
it again, I'm gonna do the small and then click that assign I'm only doing this for
the automatic grading if you guys made had grade rules, I don't think that this will be a problem
for you. But I just I'm happy this happened to me because I just wanted to demonstrate to you guys
how to fix it so you can move on to your marker. So you definitely wanna make sure you have all the
little grading points, actually, like selected and created. Okay, well, let's try again. Let's go
back to our print layout to make our marker. I'm gonna go ahead and select all the pieces.
I'm going to right click, nest all patterns, we're going to do one set. So I should have
three garments small, medium, and large. I'm gonna leave my buffer space at zero. And
I do I want to nest all the gradient sizes so I'm going to make sure that's checked
on. And then I'm going to say proceed. It's a good sign. It's taking it
a while because now it's probably I guess, creating each size and laying it out. Okay, here we go. So my consumption rate still
not amazing 70% you could argue 70.1% you want to round it, it's not high 80s so again,
there's other strategies if you really want to dive deeper on how to get you know better
consumption. I'm just gonna say close we're done. You know, obviously is a huge wasted space
here. Is there something else we could cut right there? You know, could I add an
extra sleeve and like turn it But anyways, this is at least a start. Now you're probably
looking like wait, they're overlapping each other. They're not It's just that I have the view of
them nested. So to get rid of that if you click I think it's let's see here this for now it's
this last one show reference line. There we go. So just have the reference in the nesting and if
that makes sense but um but get rid of that and this is they are all pretty close together. You
can see how that is. So this is I guess how you would prep it for production you can go ahead and
click Save Image if you wanted hear me Oh gosh, it has an email me Oh, here we go unit. Change it
to inches. All the information you want to include okay. Yeah, maybe customs fine. And just click
save and it'll save a little snapshot of this. Okay, I'm gonna see cancelled right now. I don't
need it. Okay, I want to show you guys how to do the nested one, like if you were going to prep it
for, you know, a home pattern to sell online to like retail to people are going to cut and sew
at home. So to do that, you're going to again, select everything right click, I might say what
happens if I say was Reset to Default and nothing good? Okay, I'm gonna say nest all patterns, I'm
gonna say we want just one set of the garment. I'm my buffer this at least an inch apart,
maybe more, you can manually move it as well. And then Nestle grading sizes, I'm just
going to say off, we just want one set, then nested together, I don't need like
small, medium and large, we just need them all together on top of each other. This is for
like the retail version. And I'll say proceed. Give it a minute. Okay, consumption 72%, cool
clothes. I don't know if the consumption here really matters. This is what people would cut out.
You know, and maybe if you are doing for retail, you might change your pattern pieces and just
say like cut on fold. So then you don't have to waste as much paper. It's kind of up to
you. And then if you zoom in, it is nested as well. And then you probably just like probably somehow open this in Adobe Illustrator and maybe
change the color of each size. So it's easy to cut out the small, medium or large. I know
home pattern pieces, they'll change like to a dashed line for one size and a different style
dashed line. Here you go. We have the info button too if you want to add the names of the pattern
pieces. But yeah, that's basically how to do that. Okay, so if you did want to go change them dhobi
illustrator I know the snapshots not really great because that's just like a PNG files.
Let's go ahead and try to save to Adobe PDF. Okay, we'll just call this our retail sloper.
Nest. And remember where you saved it. Okay, scale, I recommend 100% Let's see,
probably page margins are a good idea. I like the one inches. Um, what do I want pattern
outlines, I don't have any seam allowance. But, you know, if you had seam allowance that
I would definitely keep that checked. Show and show all the lines, why not show all
the images show everything you can take it off in Illustrator if you want and I'll say okay,
I'm just gonna get illustrator ready to go. And let's see what this look like. Looks like.
So we need to go to our desktop, here it is. Okay, illustrators opening right now, but
I can see all the pieces there. Anyways, you can open up this PDF file in Illustrator and
make it prettier basically, for those of you guys again that are trying to sell, you know, to people
selling at home. Oops, I just opened an Adobe Acrobat. I'd rather click drag and drop it to
Adobe Illustrator. Because illustrator is a vector based program and it will give us some options to
kind of clean it up and change it the way we want. Okay, so I opened an illustrator, I guess,
Khloe uses this font, whatever it is Ba Gua Han songs, I don't have it, I don't
really care. So I'll just say close, I will just use my own funds. And I'm going
to zoom out and look at this guy. So again, it is kind of nice when we have our
measurements and again, you can kind of clean this up yourself to like maybe you
want to delete all that and write it yourself. You know this, I believe me, you have to figure
out what your sizes are. This looks like it's our size small right here. So you can make a
key that says I'm going to get rid of the fill. Maybe size small is in red, and you can give it
a red stroke. Let's open up our stroke palette. Oh, it is open. I just don't know where it
is. I'll just close it and reopen it. Oh, there it is. Okay, and yeah, maybe is one
good or maybe you want to do a dash line. That wasn't a very good dash line. But we can
change it. Be like 22 not sure. On zoom. Then I don't know why I'm having trouble selecting
that, Oh, I'm just gonna delete that. I don't know what that is. There we go. Okay, add
our dash line, there we go, that's better. Somebody read can be so small
and then maybe green is medium, you can make the stroke wider. I mean, this
is where you could really get in and kind of clean it up. Maybe this guy's like some kind
of dark blue. Maybe it's also a dash, but the gap is like to know, so it's just kind
of like a different texture to it like solid, you know, in case you have a printer that's
not in color, and maybe you don't like the font that they use. So you could always delete
it, you could type in your own try it again. Add your branding, however you want to maybe
write actually as well to all your good stuff that you wanted to get it ready for. Okay.
Okay, guys, let me know here's of questions. But anyways, I hope you guys like this feature of
clo and share your experiences. This is all new to me to be honest with you. So I'm trying to learn
as much as I can about this amazing software.
