Development of a program for calculating indicators of fabrics drapeapability based on 3D scanning data

The paper is devoted to the development of a program for automating of the 3D scanning results processing of draped fabrics samples in order to assess their drapeability. Programming language Python is chosen to develop the program DrapeCalculator. The developed program allows obtaining coefficients of regression models describing the surface of draped samples shape and the profiles of their individual cross - sections, as well as the values of drape indicators. Testing the program showed that the results of calculations made using the developed program differ slightly from the results obtained with the manual method of data preparation in the case of averaging 3Dscanning data of three samples of draped fabrics. The use of the program DrapeCalculator allows to reduce the time required to process the results of 3D scanning by more than 40 times.