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Children's Place discusses advantages of shifting from U4ia to Kaledo
28 Jan '09
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“We instituted a very positive and open feedback exchange system with Lectra which helped make our migration particularly productive,” Farber said. “It has really worked out quite well.”
Lectra's Kaledo design suite: the ideal fashion-dedicated technology design and asset management solution Lectra's Kaledo design suite provides designers with the most advanced digital design development and management capabilities on the market for both textile and fashion design. Fabric motifs can be created in or scanned into Kaledo's Print, Knit, or Weave module, then accurately scaled and positioned with userfriendly arrows to show grain line. The entire design benefits from Kaledo's simple yet powerful drag-anddrop features. Colors can be created from scratch or chosen from a standard color library such as Pantone, NCS, or Munsell. Design, textile, and artwork assets are stored and managed intelligently through Kaledo Collection, allowing design offices to capitalize on past investments.
“Kaledo is so powerful that it adapts well to different users, and there are many different paths to get to the same result,” said Anastasia Charbin, Product Manager – Design Solutions, Lectra. “During the training time, we often only show one common path, because the most important thing is to understand the mentality of the software. Once you know that, you can make it do what you want it to do. You don't have to make yourself conform to the way somebody told you that you have to do something or think that there's just one way that it has to be done.
“And Kaledo is a new software,” she said. “There's still a lot of territory to explore in Kaledo. And like with U4ia, after a while that mentality just becomes second-nature to you, except that with Kaledo, it is all the more impressive and functional for you.”
The standard in computer-aided design technology for 15 years, U4ia is now being phased out and replaced by the more powerful, high-performance, and user-friendly Kaledo suite. “Kaledo offers newer and much richer functionality,” Wozny said. “I knew the technology would be a big 'win' for The Children's Place if it was embraced by our design team and if it helped to streamline and accelerate our design and development processes. So far, that's exactly what Kaledo is doing.”
Lectra's Kaledo design suite: the ideal fashion-dedicated technology design and asset management solution Lectra's Kaledo design suite provides designers with the most advanced digital design development and management capabilities on the market for both textile and fashion design. Fabric motifs can be created in or scanned into Kaledo's Print, Knit, or Weave module, then accurately scaled and positioned with userfriendly arrows to show grain line. The entire design benefits from Kaledo's simple yet powerful drag-anddrop features. Colors can be created from scratch or chosen from a standard color library such as Pantone, NCS, or Munsell. Design, textile, and artwork assets are stored and managed intelligently through Kaledo Collection, allowing design offices to capitalize on past investments.
“Kaledo is so powerful that it adapts well to different users, and there are many different paths to get to the same result,” said Anastasia Charbin, Product Manager – Design Solutions, Lectra. “During the training time, we often only show one common path, because the most important thing is to understand the mentality of the software. Once you know that, you can make it do what you want it to do. You don't have to make yourself conform to the way somebody told you that you have to do something or think that there's just one way that it has to be done.
“And Kaledo is a new software,” she said. “There's still a lot of territory to explore in Kaledo. And like with U4ia, after a while that mentality just becomes second-nature to you, except that with Kaledo, it is all the more impressive and functional for you.”
The standard in computer-aided design technology for 15 years, U4ia is now being phased out and replaced by the more powerful, high-performance, and user-friendly Kaledo suite. “Kaledo offers newer and much richer functionality,” Wozny said. “I knew the technology would be a big 'win' for The Children's Place if it was embraced by our design team and if it helped to streamline and accelerate our design and development processes. So far, that's exactly what Kaledo is doing.”
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