How To Get True-To-Life Physics Properties
This article explains what our physics properties services are, why it is important, and how to use your materials with physics outside SEDDI Textura.
There are two key aspects to consider when digitizing a material. One is the visual aspect of the material, and the other is its physical or mechanical behavior. With SEDDI Textura you are able to generate both quickly and easily.
When you create your material, you can select if you want the texture maps, the physics properties, or both.
What do you need to get physics properties?
In order to get the physical parameters for your fabric, you will need to give SEDDI Textura these few parameters:
Structure name. To select the structure, you will see a dropdown list with the most common structures for woven and knit fabrics. Select the one that matches the construction of your material. Check out our guides on woven and knit structures to learn more.
Weight in g/m2: Weight is a very important parameter to determine how a material behaves. That is why inputting the weight of your material in g/m2 is a mandatory field to calculate the physic parameters. You can usually find the weight along with other technical information from your supplier.
Percentage of elastane. As you probably know, elastane is a material that augments a fabric's elasticity. It is an input to calculate physics parameters because a material that contains elastane, will behave differently than one that does not. This information should be available as part of the fiber composition of your material.
Thickness. This is an optional value. If you have it or can measure it, it will be used to estimate your material physics. If you don't, our research team has developed an algorithm that is able to estimate it from the size of the yarns found on your scan. A material's thickness will mainly affect how it bends.
The Importance of Physics Properties
To truly be able to make decisions digitally, you will need a material that behaves the way the real fabric does. That is why we care so much about the physical properties. With only a few parameters of your material, SEDDI Textura's artificial intelligence models can estimate how your material drapes and stretches.
Once you, or anyone in your organization, has created a material, you can tell if it has true physics by checking the box on the material viewer.
Our material viewer has a real-time simulation engine that will drape the material based on the parameters estimated. So, if your material was created with physics, then you can evaluate its drape on the different 3D objects on our viewport. Check out the different draping between a Jacquard and a French Terry for example.
Once in your library, you can download any of your materials to use in CLO, Browzwear and SEDDI Author. Downloading a .u3ma file will automatically bring the physical properties into SEDDI Author or Browzwear. To use in CLO, you will have to copy/paste the values shown in SEDDI Textura into CLO's physical properties panel. These parameters are the input for the simulation engines to represent the mechanical behavior of the material in 3D.
