Create a tailor-made pattern for a shirt written in Matlab

Maybe sewing is your hobby and you want to sew a perfectly fitting garment for yourself or a friend.

Or you are interested in a perfectly fitting garment for a more technical reason. For example, you develop smart textiles and need a constant contact pressure for your sensors.

The functions presented here allow you to create the basic cutting pattern for a shirt, which you can then be modified as you like.

The following options are already included:

• Gender: Lady, Men
• Fit: loose, regular, tight
• neckline: Round neck, v-neckline
• sleeves: sleeveless, short, 3/4 sleeves, long

The pattern will be written into a SVG-file or DCF-file. These files can be used these files can be used for machine cutting using knives or laser cutters. But if you don't have access to such a machine, you can also plot the file on paper and transfer it to the fabric as usual.

• tape measure
• waistband
• one piece of paper

A dimension sheet including a tutorial how to take the measurements is avaible.

Matlab (2018b or newer) with Computer Vision Toolbox

SG Library (https://github.com/timlueth/SG-Lib-Matlab-Toolbox)

DXFLib (https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/33884-dxflib)

See Example1_Create_Pattern.m and Example2_Shirt_for_fabrication.m

• Vivien Altmann: Schnittmuster für elastische Stoffe erstellen 1: Grundschnitt für T-Shirts, Online Tutorial https://www.makerist.de/courses/schnittmuster-fuer-elastische-stoffe-erstellen-1-grundschnitt-fuer-t-shirts.
• Guido Hofenbitzer (2009): Schnittkonstruktion für Damenmode: Bekleidung : Grundlagen, Band 1, Verlag Europa-Lehrmittel Nourney, Vollmer, 368 Seiten.

• Prof. Dr. Tim Lüth @timlueth for the introduction of data types like point lists (PL) and closed point lists (CPL) and of course for the provision of a large number of functions to handle them within the SG-Library.
• Dr. Matthias Träger for the basic code for the generation of SVG files from point lists (see function PLwriteSVG2).