https://www.fearlessmakers.com/using-marvelous-designer-to-make-real-sewing-patterns/
First, my patterns are not scaled properly for the real world. They are created for MD. Secondly, there are many things missing on my patterns. There is no seam allowance and no notching. All the necessary interfacing pieces are missing, too.
In order for this to work, I would have to provide you the patterns in MD form for your virtual try ons. Then I would have to add all the other pieces of the garment necessary to make it, even though they aren’t used in MD. Seam allowances would have to be added and other key points noted on the pattern for sewing.
These patterns would have to be a completely different set that could be printed out in real world scale. Those could then be sewn together, just like any other sewing pattern.
Could this be done? In theory, yes, although it would be a completely new process and application. People in the CG world would not be interested in this process. It would only apply to people who sew.
MD is not the magic bullet I hoped it would be! Still, I will give it a try and see what I can make of it. Adding seam allowance is not a problem.
I have Marvelous Designer and it is a really cool software, but it is geared for the 3D market and not for creating “real life” garments (though many of us would like to use it that way). There is no easy method for getting a life size pattern from this software. You cannot export anything that a CAD program can use. So far, I have heard only of people making a screen capture of the pattern pieces and using a graphics program for printing them out at life size – not easy to get the scale right. It would be really nice if there were a mid level version of this program for home sewers, but currently the CLO3d version is the only version that has the ability to enter real measurements and print out life size patterns. This is a relatively new product though, so they may come up with a mid level version – especially if they think there is a market. One of the things you can do with this program, is use images of real pattern pieces as a template for creating a pattern in MD2. This will let you see what the pattern might look sewn up in a variety of fabric types and colors in real life. Getting models in the exact proportions to use to drape on, however, is not easy just yet and so creating for a specific real person is not very realistic.
Threads blogpost on pattern making software
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