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Tech pack guides
Short guides to the parts of a tech pack and to making one with AI, for designers, product developers and the factories that make their garments.
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Making a tech pack with AI
The Studio draws the technical flat from your photos or a sketch and builds the tech pack around it: the points of measure, the sizes, the materials, the colours, the artwork and the labels. You answer its questions, check what it made and send it to factories.
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Technical flats from photos and sketchesA technical flat is the line drawing a factory builds the garment from. The Studio draws one from your photos or a sketch, in every view, as an editable garment rather than a picture.
Artwork and labels in a tech packEvery print, embroidery and label in a tech pack needs a size, a position measured from fixed points, its colours and a file the supplier can work from. What the pack leaves out here, the factory guesses, on the most visible parts of the garment.
What a tech pack isA tech pack is the document a factory quotes, samples and produces a garment from: the drawings, the measurements, the materials, the colours, the labels and the construction, in one file with one version.
Points of measureA point of measure is one measurement of the finished garment, written so that anyone measuring it gets the same number: a code, a method, the spec at the sample size and a tolerance.
The bill of materialsThe bill of materials (BOM) lists everything a garment is made of, one line per material, with enough detail for a factory to source each one, cost the garment and check what arrives.
Grading and size chartsGrading turns the measurements of one size into a full size run. A grade rule says how much each point of measure changes from one size to the next.
Sending a tech pack to a factoryA factory quotes and samples from what you send. Send one complete pack with the quantity, the sizes and the dates, and agree in writing what each sample is for.
