Learn Optitex for fashion: pattern design, grading, digitising, marker making and 3D sampling.
Talk to our counsellor — choose the right course, batch time and mode.
Join at a CADD centre near you or online. You get your student login and ID card.
60 Hours of hands-on Optitex for Fashion Design classes — in the classroom or live online.
Exercises in every class and a final project, checked by your trainer.
Finish the course and get your course-completion certificate and a digital completion badge with your name.
Take the certification exam: a theory test and a practical task — at the centre or online.
Pass the exam and get the certified certificate with your marksheet. Anyone can check it online with its QR code.
Your certified badge — add it to LinkedIn and share it anywhere; it opens its own verify page.
Make your CV in your student panel (Career → My CV) — your course, certificates and projects are added for you. Send it as a link with a preview picture, and apply to jobs and Hire Me requests from companies.
Optitex is a fashion and apparel CAD solution used by garment manufacturers, export houses and brands for pattern design, grading, marker making and 3D virtual sampling. In the apparel industry it helps teams draft and correct patterns digitally, grade them into a full size range, plan fabric-saving markers for cutting and preview garments in 3D before a physical sample is sewn.
This 60-hour Optitex course follows the production workflow of a garment factory. You start with the pattern design environment, draw and modify blocks, add darts, pleats, notches and seam allowance, then digitise paper patterns, create grading rules and generate size sets. You then plan markers and check efficiency, and finish with an introduction to 3D: stitching patterns onto an avatar to check fit and drape. Training is hands-on, in the classroom at CADD centres or in live online classes.
Optitex skills support roles such as CAD pattern maker, grading and marker technician and sampling coordinator in apparel and export companies. Fashion students can continue with Marvelous Designer or TukaCAD to widen their CAD skills.
Students rate the course after they finish it — their ratings appear here.
Optitex is fashion CAD software used for digital pattern making, grading patterns into sizes, planning fabric markers for cutting and creating 3D virtual samples to check fit before sewing.
Fashion and apparel production students, manual pattern makers, merchandisers and garment manufacturers. Knowing manual pattern making makes learning faster.
The Optitex for Fashion Design course is 60 hours long, covering pattern design, grading, marker making and 3D.
Yes. Besides classroom training at CADD centres, Optitex runs as live online classes in which you draft, grade and plan markers on your PC while the trainer checks your pattern pieces.
On completing Optitex you are awarded a CADD Training Centre certificate. It has its own verification code, so a garment export house can look it up on the website.
CAD pattern maker, grading and marker technician, sampling coordinator and production CAD operator in garment factories and export houses. Career guidance and placement support are provided.
Marker making is arranging all pattern pieces of the required sizes on the fabric width so they can be cut with minimum waste. Optitex automates this and reports fabric efficiency.
More questions? Ask our counsellor or read the general FAQ.
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