CLO Virtual Fashion has made its CLO zFab Kit available for order and shipping to customers worldwide. The AI-powered fabric digitization solution can be operated as a standalone system without requiring access to the CLO software. Brands, vendors, fabric mills, fabric agents, and supply chain partners can digitize fabrics with full accuracy and produce ready-to-use digital materials via the web using CLOFAB through CLO-SET, without needing a CLO software license.
“We have been eager to come up with ways to address some of the pain points of fabric digitization that our users and clients were going through. Quality was inconsistent, devices were slow and difficult to operate, pricey and often locked behind specialist workflows,” said Justin Kim, 3D design and implementation at CLO. “The CLO zFab Kit closes the gap. And by making it truly standalone via the web on CLO-SET, we’re putting accurate digital fabric in reach of the entire supply chain, not just the design teams already using CLO.”
The CLO zFab Kit combines three pieces of purpose-built hardware – zFab Cutter, zFab Scanner, and zFab Draper – with CLO’s AI-powered software to capture a fabric’s physical and visual properties from a single circular sample. The output is a digital fabric that includes PBR maps and physical property data, said to be ready to drop into any workflow.
According to the company, three features set the kit apart. On accuracy, it replaces manual measurement with a cutting, scanning, and analysis system that the company states produces digital fabrics capable of driving production decisions. On automation, the kit is powered by proprietary AI trained on CLO and Swatchbook’s fabric dataset, which the company says speeds up digitization while keeping results consistent across operators and locations. On integration, outputs are said to work natively in CLO’s platform and export to other 3D environments without additional rework.
The CLO zFab Kit was built with fabric mills, vendors, sourcing teams, and material libraries in mind, in addition to design teams already using the CLO software. By providing suppliers with tools to create digital fabrics quickly and consistently, the company states that the CLO zFab Kit can help cut physical sample shipments, shorten material approval cycles, and give participants across the workflow chain cleaner data to act on.
