CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

8 January 2009

Product News

Adam Evolves- and Tim is Born- in 3D

OptiTex introduced new features for their signature 3D dimensional avatar Adam -and announced the anticipated birth of Tim, a ten year-old avatar who has the potential to grow up to 18 years old.

The Adam and Tim avatars provide clothing designers with a significant advantage in the male fashion market- enabling a garment to be reviewed, refined and measured before the first piece is ever cut. Designers can now stage a virtual fashion show for potential investors, without having to create samples of the actual line, saving significant upfront costs.

Developers at OptiTex have refined the Adam avatar by introducing dynamic shoulder pads to fill in and create varied slopes for designs, as well as supplementary poses for accurate fitting. OptiTex’s enhanced Morphs Dialog, which offers choices such as muscle tone definition, belly shape, and numerous postures-, now supports the ability to manage props such as shoes and socks in 3D view.

The advanced boy avatar- Tim begins as a 10 year-old standing at 139 cm. Tim is a parametric avatar that can be modified to change his size and dimensions of one or more body parts at the same time. Tim’s life-like posture allows designers to cut down on the time invested in planning and production, thus significantly reducing customer costs.

By advancing the Adam and Tim avatars, OptiTex provides designers and manufacturers the capabilities of a more quality fit for their designs, without cutting a piece of fabric.

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