Fashion Design Software

[Morgan]

This article highlights some of the main Fashion Design software packages around. 
Some offer 2 and 3D modelling and some also include pattern generation modules. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cadcrowd.com/blog/what-is-the-best-clothing-design-software-for-3d-rendering-modeling-apparel/amp/

The packages I've heard most about recently for pattern making/pattern generation are Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, CLo3D and TailorNova.
CLo3D and TailorNova use a subscription business model. 

Now these programmes in themselves are intended as tools for the fashion industry and patternmakers.  As tools what can be done with them to illustrate a design and produce a 3D model is amazing. 
They're not substitutes for a lack of pattern making skills and education.

 However increasingly, there are reports appearing about  some so called 'independent designers' using these types of programmes to produce sewing patterns for sale that turn out to be untested and downright 'bad' or wrong as in poorly drafted.  Copying someone else's design, generating a pattern and then selling on Etsy or another platform can be done easily now by unscrupulous sellers but, without an understanding of patternmaking, sewing know how or actual testing,  errors become more common.  Errors are compounded when these people copy already bad copies of patterns. 
The copyright infringement and ethical issues are a different aspect this growing problem.

Perhaps best to support only the independent designers who encourage their customers to let them know about any issues or glitches they have with the designer's patterns. 

Two sides of the digital pattern making coin. 

[Ohsewsimple]

Absolutely agree @Morgan.  And why waste money on a programme if you can pattern draft anyway?
Unless of course it’s for commercial reasons. We had a discussion about these many years ago when I was doing C&G.  And the point our tutor kept making was that these programmes work solely on info given,  numbers, measurements etc.  They can’t allow for all the body shapes and adjustments needed.  So you can end up with some very strange shaped pattern pieces.  By the time you’ve sorted that, you could probably have drafted it by hand and made the adjustments.