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Teaching Method of Children's Clothing Appearance Design based
on Distributed CAD
Lan Hu
1,*
and Kun Liao
2
1
Art College, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China,
2
Art College, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China,
Corresponding author: Lan Hu, 2008043@ctbu.edu.cn
Abstract. The development of computer information technology has transformed
many industries. The application of computer CAD technology in the field of
clothing design has also become a trend. Designers should make full use of the
convenience of computer information technology when designing children's clothing
to improve the effect of children's clothing design as much as possible. In the field
of children's clothing design, teachers can use CAD technology for drawing training.
Teachers can also use distributed CAD technology to carry out evaluation of
children's clothing teaching design. Computer technology CAD can comprehensively
improve the teaching effect of fashion design, and then build an efficient teaching
platform for fashion design courses. The modern garment production and
processing industry has put forward higher requirements for the quality level of
garment production and the quality of employees. Therefore, CAD technology can
improve the level of modern clothing design. We should pay full attention to the
application of diversified technologies in fashion design work. This paper takes the
children's clothing design work as the starting point, and discusses the computer
CAD technology. This paper further summarizes the application significance of
computer CAD technology. The article comprehensively analyzes the application of
CAD technology in the garment industry. This article analyzes the different
technologies in the field of children's clothing manufacturing. These technologies
include three-dimensional body measurement technology, children's clothing design
CAD technology, and virtual clothing cutting technology and so on. This paper
proposes a digital children's clothing design process system, which has a certain
reference significance for the development of clothing digitalization.
Keywords: children's clothing design; teaching method; distributed; CAD
technology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2023.S4.167-176
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1 INTRODUCTION
CAD technology is widely used in the field of clothing design. At present, the technology is
supported by functions such as computer graphics processing to provide support for clothing
design work. Rougeaux [1] believed that carrying out clothing design work based on CAD
technology can also play a role in optimizing the design effect. The advantages of computer CAD
technology are generally reflected in the design feedback efficiency, graphics display speed and
other aspects. On this basis, Longo et al. [2] believed that the fashion design work integrates the
innovative ideas of designers. Generally speaking, computer technology is capable of designing
garments that have a huge impact. It can be seen that this paper needs to carry out a necessary
discussion around the application of related technologies. Children's clothing design CAD system is
a computer-aided clothing design system. Enes and Kipoz [3] believed that the system is a
combination of computer and clothing product design. Children's clothing design CAD technology
Design technology is a comprehensive technology. The technical system includes various technical
types such as clothing style design, clothing structure design and industrial model design. The
system includes computer graphics, database, network communication and other types of
computer technology. At present, the CAD design system of children's clothing design is
developing in the direction of intelligence, three-dimensional and convenient.
Dijk et al. [4] believed that the scope of application of digital clothing design technology is also
expanding. In the context of the development of the Internet, children's clothing design needs to
actively introduce information technology to build a modern classroom teaching environment. In
order to better meet the needs of the society for fashion design talents, fashion design colleges
need to constantly improve their own shortcomings. Fashion design major needs to actively carry
out teaching reform. Through information technology, the school helps student groups to acquire
more knowledge in clothing tailoring and styling design. Ji and Liu [5] believed that the student
group needs to learn the knowledge of clothing structure, clothing drawing and so on. Computer
CAD technology is conducive to the growth of students' majors and further improves the teaching
quality of children's clothing design majors. Children's clothing design CAD technology is developed
continuously based on computer CAD technology. Computer CAD technology has a variety of
graphics processing capabilities. Computer technology has provided technical support to clothing
design work to a certain extent. At the same time, the CAD technology of children's clothing design
has better adaptability and convenience. Jagannath et al. [6] believed that the technical
advantages are mainly reflected in the computer response speed and graphics display speed.
Based on computer technology, clothing designers conduct a comprehensive analysis of various
types of information, and then design more trend-setting clothing. Children's clothing design CAD
technology can improve the efficiency of clothing design, thereby greatly shortening the time spent
on clothing production. Pérez et al. [7] believed that the computer technology reduces production
costs on the basis of unified management and cluster management. With the improvement of
clothing production speed, the competitiveness of enterprises has also been enhanced accordingly.
The improvement of clothing production efficiency also provides impetus for the development of
clothing intelligence. Jin et al. [8] believed that taking children's clothing design as an example,
clothing designers choose computer CAD systems to carry out intelligent design. On the basis of
divergent thinking, fashion designers can successfully complete a series of tasks such as plate
making, layout and grading. The application of this technology allows designers to truly improve
the craftsmanship of clothing production, and reduce the time and cost of clothing design and
production. Mondal et al. [9] believed that the existing research shows that the CAD technology of
children's clothing design is developing towards the goal of practicality. The related systems can be
divided into the following parts, including grading system, material system, design system,
drawing system and so on. The relevant clothing design enterprises have perfected the functions
of computer CAD technology out of consideration of user needs. From the manufacturer's point of
view, the color, material and style of children's clothing design can be utilized by CAD technology.
Napper et al. [10] believed that computer CAD technology can ensure that conceptual clothing
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design can be transformed into physical clothing as soon as possible. It can be seen that the CAD
technology of children's clothing design has a good development prospect. Clothing design
companies need to create special products in order to maintain the rapid development of the
clothing industry.
1.1 The Positive Significance of CAD Technology in Appearance Design of Children's
Clothing
Traditional clothing design is easily limited by clothing materials and design ideas, resulting in poor
clothing design results. Children's clothing design CAD technology solves this problem. Fashion
designers can use interactive means to innovate clothing fabrics, shapes and colors. With the burst
of designer inspiration, the designer's imagination and creativity can be maximized. In addition,
children's clothing design technology can also provide users with customized, personalized and
differentiated children's clothing. This design method can ensure that the clothing is both practical
and artistic. To sum up, the CAD technology of children's clothing design can solve most of the
problems encountered in the traditional manual design stage. Relevant personnel can use this
technology to quickly display the effect of children's clothing design. At the same time, fashion
designers can also give full play to the characteristics of CAD technology and study the specific
methods of fashion design from different perspectives. The difference between modern clothing
design and traditional clothing design is mainly reflected in the designer integrating a large
number of modern aesthetic elements into the design scheme. Designers can ensure the display of
multiple characteristics of clothing through the latest clothing design methods. CAD technology can
speed up the transformation of clothing design ideas to finished clothing design. Fashion designers
simultaneously carry out clothing aesthetic design and modern computer CAD design. Designers
can meet the needs of design work in clothing design, production, processing and other links to
the greatest extent. In daily work, fashion designers can incorporate multiple design elements in a
targeted manner. With the assistance of CAD technology, the clothing designer optimizes and
adjusts the design scheme. The designer's operation can ensure the design effect and ensure that
the adjusted design scheme can present the aesthetic characteristics intuitively. Facts have proved
that on the one hand, this method improves the speed of clothing design, and on the other hand
makes the effect of clothing design more diversified, and the scope of children's clothing design is
also expanded. The application effect of computer CAD module in the appearance design of
children's clothing is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The application effect of computer CAD module in the appearance design of children's
clothing.
1.2 The Main Value of CAD Technology in the Design of Children's Clothing
The tools and materials used in children's clothing design CAD technology are different from
traditional technical methods. This situation comprehensively reflects the value of CAD technology
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to optimize and expand traditional clothing design methods. Whether it is the expression idea or
the design mode, the computer CAD technology can make the clothing design method be
optimized. For example, three-dimensional body measurement, dynamic capture and other
technologies can shorten the time required for clothing designers to capture human body data.
Children's clothing design CAD technology can truly realize the real-time conversion of clothing
design effects between the virtual world and the real world. At present, the CAD technology of
children's clothing design has been widely promoted and applied. The development trend of design
art institutes is also gradually moving towards popularization. At the same time, there are still
obvious deficiencies in the application of relevant CAD technology by fashion design enterprises in
China. The product features of clothing design are not prominent. It can be seen that in order to
realize the inherent value of this technology, fashion designers need to strengthen the research
and development of the fashion design system and key links. The designer achieves the perfect
integration with the artistic effect through open development and insisting on innovation. Only in
this way, the CAD technical structure of the clothing design enterprise can be continuously
optimized. The effectiveness of clothing design can also increase accordingly.
2 THE ADVANTAGES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CAD TECHNOLOGY IN THE
APPLICATION OF CHILDREN'S CLOTHING DESIGN
2.1 Innovative Ideas of Children's Clothing Design
Children's clothing design CAD technology can introduce design thinking into practical work.
Through computer technology and modern fashion design concepts, fashion designers can exert
their professional comprehensive ability. In this process, children's clothing can add a variety of
digital design elements, and use computer CAD technology to improve the design scheme.
Computer CAD technology can objectively express the aesthetic elements in children's clothing
design work. Computer technology can efficiently express a variety of design elements. This
method improves the efficiency of clothing design, and also improves the diversity of design
effects for clothing designers. In this process, fashion designers gradually become the real main
body of fashion design work. Computer CAD technology has opened up a freer and broad
development space for clothing design work. The overall architecture of children's clothing shape
design system based on distributed CAD technology is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: The overall architecture of children's clothing shape design system based on distributed
CAD technology.
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2.2 The Technical Methods of Children's Clothing Design
In the application process of children's clothing design CAD technology, designers need to combine
new materials and new tools for clothing design. These tools are the necessary basic factors to
expand the designer's thinking, which can enrich the designer's design inspiration and design
effect. These technologies include the relatively advanced three-dimensional dynamic body capture
technology. These technical means can allow designers to obtain more new ideas and new
methods of clothing design in a short period of time. Computer technology can also obtain human
data models and basic laws of human activities. These new technologies can help fashion
designers make sound judgments. Based on the CAD system of children's clothing design, clothing
craftsmen can use computer technology to carry out clothing design. Computer technology can
make the work of patterning, marking, and grading of garment samples more accurate and
efficient. Computer CAD technology can significantly improve the technological level of clothing
design. Computer CAD technology can also greatly reduce the cost and time period of garment
production. The application effect of CAD technology in the appearance design model of children's
clothing is shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 3: The application effect of CAD technology in the appearance design model of children's
clothing.
2.3 The Computer CAD Technology Promotes Children's Clothing Design
In the past, clothing design was usually restricted by a series of factors such as space and
materials. These constraints make it difficult for fashion designers to fully realize the design
concept. Through the CAD technology of children's clothing design, designers can more directly
use digital interactive means to create new clothing shapes, styles, colors, fabrics and other
content. Computer technology can provide designers with more new design inspiration, and
designers' creativity and imagination can be fully utilized in clothing design. Computer technology
can effectively expand the creative expression space of fashion designers. At the same time,
computer CAD technology can provide people with clothing design works with unique style and
temperament. Generally speaking, children's clothing design CAD technology can solve many
problems that are difficult to solve by traditional manual sewing technology. At the same time, the
technology can fully display the stylized artistic scene. Therefore, in order to give full play to the
characteristics and advantages of CAD technology for children's clothing design, scholars should
strengthen the application research and innovative exploration of CAD technology from different
perspectives. The organizational structure of experimental platform for children's clothing design
based on distributed CAD technology is shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4: The organizational structure of experimental platform for children's clothing design
based on distributed CAD technology.
The system design includes four aspects: system structure, architecture design, interface layer
template design and function design of each module. This paper further constructs the structure of
the entire IT service management system according to the system functional requirements. Among
them, the IT service management system is located inside the management private network. The
management system adopts a three-tier architecture design, namely interface layer, business logic
layer, data access layer, and public category and entity layer. The interface layer is composed of
system interface and control logic. This layer mainly receives user commands, requests and data.
After the interface layer collects information, it passes the content to the business layer for
processing, and then presents the results. The control logic is responsible for handling the data
interaction between the interface and the business layer, as well as some simple data validation.
The business logic layer encapsulates the actual business logic, including business-related
operations such as data verification, transaction processing, and permission processing. Business
logic is the core of the entire application system. The data access layer is used to interact with the
database, including operations such as adding, modifying, deleting, and obtaining data. The public
class encapsulates some commonly used functional code. The entity class is the data transmission
carrier between the various layers. The Design of sports event management system based on IoT
CAD technology.
3 THE APPLICATION VALUE OF CAD TECHNOLOGY IN CHILDREN'S CLOTHING DESIGN
3.1 Pay Attention to the Creation of Children's Clothing Brand Product Features
With the rapid development and popularization and application of CAD technology for children's
clothing design, design art is gradually showing a trend of popularization. Judging from the
application status of children's clothing design CAD technology, there are still many situations such
as insufficient development and growth rate. The product features of children's clothing design
brands still need to be strengthened. Therefore, children's clothing design CAD technology needs
to achieve leapfrog development with the help of science and technology, and organically integrate
with artistic creation. Computer CAD technology can be applied to the key links of modern clothing
design system. Children's clothing design CAD technology can be continuously optimized in the
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process of development. Fashion design work needs to give full play to the advantages of digital
technology, so that modern clothing can truly reflect a variety of design elements. Computer CAD
technology can realize the purpose of innovative expression in clothing design, thus providing
strong support for the sustainable development of modern clothing design. The appraisal model of
garment plate-making effect based on distributed CAD technology is shown in Figure 5.
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The appraisal model of garment plate-making effect based on distributed CAD technology
Apparel Structure Project
Clothing Craft Project
Style Design System
Figure 5: The appraisal model of garment plate-making effect based on distributed CAD
technology.
At present, the digital information age is developing rapidly. Children's clothing design CAD
technology will inevitably have a huge impact on society, technology, humanities and many other
fields. With the rapid development of the clothing design industry in recent years, the attention of
all sectors of society to CAD technology for children's clothing design has continued to increase.
Designers give full play to the advantages of children's clothing design CAD technology. CAD
technology can bring positive promotion to the innovation and development of modern fashion
design industry. This paper believes that the following aspects can be taken to further enhance the
value of CAD technology for children's clothing design.
3.2 Strengthen the Application of CAD Technology for Children's Clothing Design
Children's clothing design CAD technology is a computer CAD technology that integrates
engineering technology and artistic concept. The technology specifically involves various aspects
such as economic operation, artistic creation, and science and technology. The technology
presents significant order and integration characteristics. Generally speaking, the development of
CAD technology for children's clothing design should carry out application innovation with the goal
of clothing design. In addition, fashion designers should pay attention to and improve the
application of CAD technology in different fields. Designers promote the continuous upgrading of
children's clothing design CAD technology through the organic integration and innovative
development of various technologies. In the context of globalization development, the state and
government departments should appropriately improve the level of existing children's clothing
design CAD technology and the overall level of related equipment in light of specific circumstances.
The application of CAD technology can provide strong support for the innovation and development
of modern clothing design system. At the same time, garment manufacturers should also carry out
technical research based on their own development at different stages. Based on the existing
resources and conditions, enterprises need to cooperate with colleges and universities to jointly
develop a CAD technology application model for children's clothing design that is in line with
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national conditions. The application effect of computer CAD technology in children's clothing design
is shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: The application effect of computer CAD technology in children's clothing design.
3.3 The Clothing Design CAD Technology Needs to Integrate Expert Knowledge
Clothing design is an experiential job. In the process of clothing structure design, the quality of the
model is usually affected by the experience of the pattern maker. Therefore, clothing design
enterprises must pay attention to the important role of intelligent CAD system. Enterprises need to
collect and sort out the experience accumulated by the board masters. The enterprise
systematically records the specific CAD technology application process through text description
and other methods. Specifically, companies can build a database of typical models of various types
of clothing. The fashion designer then combines certain logical relationships and data analysis
results to effectively store them in the computer memory. This technology is beneficial for users to
randomly call clothing templates and provides certain convenience for clothing design. The analysis
of the comprehensive expression effect of the appearance design of children's clothing is shown in
Figure 7.
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The analysis of the comprehensive expression effect of the appearance design of children's clothing
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Figure 7: The analysis of the comprehensive expression effect of the appearance design of
children's clothing in different months.
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3.4 The Fashion Design Profession Needs to Continuously Apply CAD Technology
Colleges and universities need to build a computer application system for the whole life cycle of
clothing design products. For example, in the design of clothing structure, colleges and universities
must always adhere to the development direction of intelligent design. Colleges and universities
need to reflect humanized design ideas in different links such as templates, grading, and modules
in curriculum design. At the same time, colleges and universities also need to use these methods
to ensure that the operation of CAD technology is simple and practical. In addition, children's
clothing design CAD technology needs to carry out data standardization and sharing work.
Universities support the coordination and unity of the clothing design industry through data
standardization. Data standardization can effectively break the unfavorable situation of format
monopoly in the fashion design industry. At the same time, the coordination and unification of
product design and manufacture by children's clothing design CAD technology should also be
properly optimized.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The application of children's clothing design CAD technology in modern clothing design is relatively
flexible. The advantages and broad development space of this technology cannot be ignored. At
the same time, the CAD technology of children's clothing design also provides new opportunities
for the development of the modern clothing design industry. Based on this, clothing designers
need to have an accurate understanding of the tool types and expressions of children's clothing
design CAD technology. At the same time, fashion designers should really transform the CAD
technology of children's clothing design into the tools commonly used in modern clothing design.
Fashion design requires deeper research and innovative development from different angles. In
general, computer technology can bring positive promotion to the modern clothing design industry,
and at the same time endow the CAD technology of children's clothing design with new meanings.
With the rapid development of social and economic level, people's consumption level and
quality of life continue to improve. In particular, the majority of children's groups have higher and
higher requirements for the fit, individuality and comfort of clothing design. The children's clothing
design industry has begun to develop in the direction of "multiple varieties, small batches, short
cycle and fast delivery". With the continuous development of digital technology and network
technology, the traditional fashion design industry has begun to enter a new era of information
technology. The application of three-dimensional body measurement technology, the continuous
improvement of CAD technology for children's clothing design, and the emergence of virtual suture
fitting technology have laid the foundation for industrial customization of clothing design. Digital
sample production not only saves a lot of costs for enterprises, but also meets the requirements of
multi-variety and small-batch production. The technology also allows consumers to feel the three-
dimensional effect of clothing on their body in real time. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of
the distributed CAD design technology and its application in the field of clothing, and focuses on
the application mode of CAD technology in the virtual stitching fitting process.
Overall, children's clothing designers need to strengthen the learning and application of digital
information technology. Apparel design should integrate virtual design and real needs through
digital technology methods. Fashion designers need to develop clothing design works that are
more in line with actual needs on the basis of the organic combination of sensibility and rationality.
Distributed CAD technology can support the technical and dynamic support required for the long-
term development of clothing design. Fashion designers can carry out modern clothing design
through computer CAD technology, which can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of
clothing design. This also shows that the development potential of children's clothing design CAD
technology is great. Influenced by the development stage of related technologies, the current
modern clothing design needs to complete a variety of tasks. On the one hand, fashion designers
need to systematically learn design tools and design patterns. On the other hand, designers also
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need to transform related technologies into tools that can aid design work. Only by doing in-depth
research and continuous innovation can designers achieve the desired effect of clothing design.
5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work was supported by Chongqing Federation of Social Science Circles: Architectural design of
light rail stations from the perspective of local Chongqing culture (No.2018QNYS67); Shandong
Province Art Education Special Project: Research on the Application of Virtual Reality Technology in
Teaching Clothing Art and Design(No.YJ201911102); Jiangxi Provincial Science and Technology
Department(Youth Project): Research on design and Display of Atrial fibrillation Monitoring Clothes
based on Perception Technology(No.GJJ212415).
Lan Hu, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8609-2679
Kun Liao, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9665-4732
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