Compare Design Dobby vs. Pointcarré

Design Dobby features an intuitive and highly efficient user interface that enables users to define, create, visualize, and implement designs in real-time. The software can seamlessly insert weave patterns in designated areas, incorporate preferred warp and weft structures into textile designs, and adapt colors according to the specific loom being used. It ensures precise control over size and effects for variable density dobby and extra warp effects, allowing for easy simulation of weft cramming, empty dents, and furnishing fabrics. Users can define drafts and peg plans either numerically or by directly drawing on point paper, and the platform supports user-friendly tools for cutting, copying, pasting, and mirroring designs. Additionally, it manages a comprehensive library of weaves, offering capabilities to create intricate weave structures by merging different weaves. The advanced auto weave generation feature facilitates the creation of diverse design effects within the same draft order while modifying the lifting plan, making the design process even more versatile and creative. This ensures that designers can explore a wide range of possibilities in their textile creations without any hassle.

Pointcarre is a complete professional textile CAD software that runs natively on both Mac and PC within a single application, a unique combination found in no other solution on the market. It covers the full spectrum of textile design: Jacquard and dobby weaving, digital, rotary and screen printing, jersey knitting, tufting, carpet design and 3D mapping to visualize fabrics realistically on photographs. All modules are integrated into one program, so designers move seamlessly from one discipline to another without switching software. The software ships with more than 4,000 weave structures and includes Pantone, ColorCSI and the Archroma Color Atlas color libraries free of charge. It connects directly to the main industrial machines on the market: looms from Stäubli, Bonas, Itema, Picanol and Dornier, tufting machines from CMC, Tuftco, Vandewiele and Modra, and knitting machines from Stoll and Karl Mayer. Pointcarre is the only textile CAD software with built-in artificial intelligence. Design Maker generates patterns from an inspiration image while respecting the designer's style, Repeat Maker turns any motif into a seamless repeat automatically, and AI Upscaling enhances the resolution of small designs. Jacquard Maker, which builds a complete Jacquard construction instantly, and Natural Blend Color, which simulates ink blending on rotary machines, are exclusive features available nowhere else. With 40 years of experience, Pointcarre is used worldwide by mills, design studios and freelancers in more than 120 countries, and is taught in leading textile design schools and universities, including every NIFT campus in India and NC State in the United States. The company is known for its world-class support, available by phone, chat, email and remote control.