Flatland

Garment and gear design tools on the web.

Flatland is a simple pattern drafting tool for garments and other soft goods.

Draft

Draft from scratch or from blocks using familiar digital drawing tools. Collect notes from sampling and revise the design using your phone as a scanner.

Grade

Create grading points and seam matching constraints within a pattern to create sizes. For unsized goods, use parameterizations to create fully dynamic patterns.

Mark

Add seam allowances, notches, interfacing, and grainlines. Make markers for samples or batch prodution. Efficient polygon packing reduces wasted fabric and saves time while cutting.

Modern tooling

Real time cloth sim

View and manipulate simulated constructions in 3D. Or start in 3D and see your flat update in real-time.

AR phone scanning

Use your phone to update the digital pattern from adjustments made on the table, without redrafting and reprinting.

Live collaboration

Share patterns with anyone you want. Make notes and changes in real time, together.

Feature Animation

Ambitious pattern designers

Streamline your pattern creation and publishing workflow.

Proof seams instantly

Parametric constraints guarantee all seams are walked all the time.

Export in any format

Export for projectors, printers, and digital users. Host a live version on Flatland where customers can ask questions and get updates.

Publish to pattern libraries

Publish on release to popular databases like Threadloop, MyNextMake, and SuperPatternList.

Industrious sewists

Optimize your small batch manufacturing process.

Increase fabric utilization

Automatically generate low-waste markers for batch work, optimizing cutting and reducing fabric costs. If you're working from recycled goods or scrap fabrics, scan them and Flatland will solve for possible patchwork layouts.

Improve production speed

Tag inventory, track individual task timings, and find bottlenecks in construction workflows. Expose project progress to customers on made-to-order items with scans at each station.

Understand your business

Combine production insights with your business plan. Understand your potentials and limitations through metric-informed value stream mapping and business viability modeling.

Flatland is built to extend human ability and amplify human skills, not minimize or replace them.

It's a tool for people to help them do more, faster, better, and with less waste.