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AdaCAD

AdaCAD is an experimental workspace that applies parametric design to the domain of weave drafting. It supports algorithmic and playful approaches to developing woven structures and cloth, for shaft and jacquard looms.

Parametric Design For Woven Structures

Instead of filling a blank canvas with your drafts and bindings, in AdaCAD, you grow drafts from the ground up by combining different operations. This makes woven structure design algorithmic and flexible.

Designed for Smart Textiles

AdaCAD emerged to address design concerns for embedding electronics in textiles. We learned you can't do this without first designing complex woven structures.

Open Source

AdaCAD is an open-source tool, meaning that anyone can add to the code base to add new operations.