10. PATTERN MARKER, TEXTILE SPREADING AND AUTOMATED CUTTING
First, I learned how to make the tacking.
The lady who did the tacking was the mother of a guy who worked with flexography.
So, I didn’t stay long in tacking. I went to try flexography in Blumenau.
Then I went to make prints. And it was in prototyping, which is the prototype stage, that I came into contact with the risk.
The risk is the pattern drawn on the fabric. In automatic tacking and cutting machines, it is something sublimated, just data.
In mechanized, but not automatic, tacking, the patterns are plotted on paper that is placed and glued to the tacking.
And the fitting of these various patterns, in order to make better use of the fabric, in smaller tackings, is done by eye.
In longer tackings, 20-30 meters, there are programs that perform this distribution.
Usually, Audaces is mentioned because it’s the standard in Brazil.
But I tested other very cool programs.