Development of CAD for Predicting Fabric Surface Form from Weave Pattern

For many years the conventional textile CAD treated textiles as thin and superficial. However, development of the textile CAD in recent years is remarkable, and is changing in the research stage of the next generation, such as a display of three-dimensional textiles, and a display of thread structure.In our previous paper, a figure was drawn expressing the relationship between the form of the textile surface and the weave pattern. In this paper, we applied the formula to some textiles which had uneven surface textiles. Mutual relationship was sufficiently estimated from the results of measurements. Consequently, a correlation coefficient has high correlation in the range of 0.74-0.93, and it became clear that the prediction method was appropriate.Applying this formula, we developed a simulation software and the surface form of textiles based on information about a weave figure etc. was realized and displayed in an instant.