Beginner's Guide On How To Create Full Size Design Tech Pack For Handbag Using Illustrator

1. Intro: Hi everybody, Welcome to my class. My name is Stella Chen. As you can see from all the items behind me, I am an artist, but I have also been in fashion. Handbags is smaller, the goods designer for the last 15 years, I'd be happy they retire, says 2019. They occur to me, you know what, it's time for me to pass out my skill set that I have learned working as a professional fashion designer in New York and the brands I've worked for include Coach, K, spay, VCB, rack and bow. And basically this skill set is about technical design skill. If your dream doesn't matter, if you are a fascist student or a fashion designer, is to work for big brands like the coaches, the k-space that Michael Kors, or to literally start your own private label or your own personal level. This skill set is absolutely crucial and unfortunately, I don't think fashion school focus enough on teaching about it. So the first thing you will learn, and this is literally the most basic skill and all the companies look for is how to create a industry standard tech pack for bags for smaller the girls for shoes, for everything. This class will teach you number one how to draw anything up to scale. How to set up the workstation, how to actually look at the construction and start from there. Construction leads to patterns. And obviously when you draw everything up to scale, you put down your bills and materials, then the factory will be able to, number one query patterns, samples, give you estimate a pricing, and we go from there. This is actually the day-to-day responsibility any designer needs to fulfill for whatever company you work for. So it's extremely important. So let's get started. 2. Set Up Illustrator Workstation : Hello everybody is stellar here. Welcome to the class. So now I'm going to show you how to set up your workstation in Illustrator so that you can go ahead and start creating industry standard for size tech pack for any product you want to create. The first thing is please open up your Illustrator. Now, go to new file. Normally, we'd like to create our tech pack using the tabloid size 17 by 11 with landscape orientation paper. But I have seen different companies using the regular letter size 8.5 by 11, and sometimes they even do the portrait orientation. So definitely this is something that you need to follow your company's Skyline. Keep the measurement in inches for now. Make sure your color mode is RGB for printing purposes. And make sure that the raster effect is high as 300 ppi. Again, this is for printing purpose. Now let's create this art board. Now with your art board, open, press down and hold Command R. Now we pull up the ruler across, which is great. You can see the 17 " long and 11 " vertically. Go to Illustrator, go to Preferences, go to Units. And we're going to change the inches to centimeters. Oh my gosh. Why are we doing this? Two reasons. Number one, designing it inches is actually not that accurate. Let's go back to change the units back 2 ". The hardest thing for the pattern maker to figure out is what is this number in-between, let's say 5.125 and a quarter. This is a pretty wide gap when you draw a line. It is a wide gap. Usually when your products start to look kind of wonky and out of proportion is because Pattern Maker is having a hard time determining, well, how far do I go in the gap? Let's just go back to the metrics and call it a day. And you will learn how to read a metro system because it's actually quite easy. Stroke, keep a metrics type, keep a point. 11-12. You can literally count the in-between gaps as 11.1, 11.23, 456. You get the idea. So nothing is left to the imagination when the pattern maker is reading this measurement, He literally just counting 123,450.10. 0.2 is two by three. So you can literally designed into the minutest detail number 290. 9% of the factories are based overseas outside of the United States. So they are trained to read and understand metrics more so than the imperial system in inches. So what has been happening is every time when we issue a 10-pack to any factories, doesn't matter if it's in Italy or in China. They literally had to assign a person to sit there spending time morning converting all the inches, two metrics. It is highly inefficient and sometimes that's when mistakes happen. That was actually my job when I first started out working in the fashion industry, I was stationed and live in a factory for year converting everything from English to Chinese and also fun, the imperial system to metrics. The next thing we need to do is set up this drop-down menu is very, very important. Now as you can see, I have layers. If you don't have your Layers open up, go to Windows, and half layers selected. Any of these drop-down menus you don't have, just go down to Windows, find them and select them. You can set this up however you want. This is my preference. I like to start with layers, and then I love working with symbols, which I will be teaching you in the next video, how to use symbols and why swatches extremely important, make sure you have it. Obviously the art boards. Sometimes I liked the art board right next to a layer so you can reorganize it. Just click hold and drag however you want. If this is all new to you, that's how you do it. The next very important menu, you should have a stroke. Again. Go to Windows and make sure your stroke is selected, is right over here. And because we'll be working with different types of stroke, will use different weights and different create different gaps to create stitches. Next is brushes. Again, you can actually add more brushes into this menu, but these are the basics that we'll be using. Transparency is also quite important, but we don't always use it, but I like to keep it. In one of the later videos you will see how to use transparency if you've never used it before. Next one I like to have is Pathfinder. Just have this open again. I'll have another video talking about how to work with Pathfinder. And lastly, gradient. This is where you want to create some sort of metallic or gradient finished. We use this a lot in creating metal hardware. So again, another video, we'll talk about this specifically. So now let's say your menus are all set up. Makes sure you have this toolbar showing up. If for whatever reason it's not showing up, try to do Come in, tap, it makes it disappear. Do Command Tab again, it should come back. The next thing we're gonna do is go to View. Make sure you have selected a smart guys. Because when we start drawing, this is very important. Illustrator program will automatically help you figure out the distance, help you measure things visually and make sure you Snap to Point. Don't do grid, don't do Pixel Snap to Point, show slices. This is also important because this will highlight the lines that you create so you can actually see what you're doing. So make sure this is selected as well. This is pretty much it. Hunger ads. 3. Drawing A Full Size Tote Bag 101: How do you draw a tote bag that has 11.5 inch in height, 15.8 inch in width, and 52 inch in depths. So let's just write this down because someone might not know what this means. So height obviously is a vertical. You measure this width for the most part. For handbags, we measure from the bottom. So when we talk about width is usually the bottom width. A, sometimes certain companies will measure from the top. So that's what you had to read a product description very carefully. Now, 5.2 inch is your depth and you may be asking, is it this? Yes, it is depths because your product, remember, shoes, handbags, or whatever is three-dimensional. So 5.2 is your depths. 11.5 height, 5.8 is this, you're sorry, width. Now, we have established that you may be asking, well, this is in inches, you just told us to draw. Everything is centimeter. So that is when you need to pull up conversion calculator. Let's start with the hype 11.5. That'll be 29.2. Usually I'll just drop this second decimal because it's so tiny, you're not going to see the difference. So now let's do select this line segment tool. Excuse me, my throat is a little bit itchy today, so draw it out. Now, there are two ways you can measure exactly what's 29.2. Did you see how when I'm actually dragging this line tool if I hold down Shift, so it will be a straight line. You can already see, see that 4.72 cm. So you can literally drag it to 29.2. Or you can select it and go up to this bar, find your height, and right now it's 46. So go to 29.2 there that show 29.2. At this point, you may be light, but Stella, the bag is going to be bigger than the art board itself. What do I do? Go to your art board. Add a second art board, go to Documents setup. At the art board. Did you see how you can select your art board now? Perfect, the way I like to work is I like to drag this art board down and see the bounding box. Select the corner anchor. Oh, sorry, I totally did not select that. Let's do it again. Always when you need to undo, just press Command, hold it down with z. Drag a mega big, however big you want. Just know that when you do this, it will slow down your computer a tiny bit, especially if you end up filling up the entire artboard. But that's pretty much how we worked. I shouldn't be too much of an issue here because this is going to be a very simple design. So now what I'm going to do is to remind myself this is full size key, the original art board as is on the top. And this will be our working art board where I'm going to add all my full-size drawing here. I'm going to also make this live sicker. So when you select it, right now, 0.0 279, which is too thin, I like to keep it as 0.07 centimeter. Their driver make a difference? No, because I didn't select it. There we go. Alright, so this is actually the height which we found is 22.29, 0.2 centimeter. Now, what about the width? The width is 15 point a. So let's go to 15.8 in the calculator is 40.1. Should I keep the 0.1? It's up to you. It is very tiny, is not going to make a difference if you drop it. So in our case, I am going to drop it. There is no rule that says you can only working whole numbers, so I just do it when it makes sense. Alright, so this is with, change it to 40. Perfect. Now this is what I'm actually going to do. I'm going to select both. I'm going to center it. Now the question is, so you have ECM. What about the top width? Well, the top width, if we decide to go with this lovely picture, and I will explain what the triangle is for later. If you want this to be an upside down trapezoid where the top width is longer than your bottom width than the way you find your top width. Select the bottom hold down Option key. If you are Mac users see the double arrow. This means duplicate. You just duplicate your second life. I will make sure all the lines are centered correctly. Now you click the top width. And make a longer your bottom is 40. Maybe the top can be, I don't know, 40 to see that when we extend or retract any line, we use this tiny little grid, cold of reference point grid. What it does is that, let's say you select this top center point. What will happen is when you change the length of the line, Let's say we make it to 46. It does. It will start in the center and extend to the sides. Let's say, okay, I'm going to undo this. Let's say, instead of selecting the center point, I select any of these three points on the left. What will happen when I extend this to 46? Did you see only the right side extended, not the left side? Because what I'm telling the computer while the program to do is the left point, It's my reference point. From here, this point, I'm extending the line so this point will not move. So this is very, very important. Now, I'm going to backtrack what I just did. Okay, So you can either you can look at it. Does it looks similar to the shape of this tote. Maybe a little bit too low. So I'm going to select this. I'm just going to maybe bring it down from 1 cm. Okay? Now, it looks about right, but it might be a little bit too short. Okay, fine. Then let's do 41.5. Okay, it kinda makes sense. So now we close up the lines. We connect all the lines by using a pen tool. Click on the anchor, connect. See that, that little square, white square. That means connect. It's very important to connect your drawings because then you create a service. When you connect all the anchors, it creates a service. And then that's when you can add, go to swatches different colors. If you don't close up the points, it will look. Let's connect actually this point so you can see what will happen. It will look something like this. You see this is not closed up. And so when I move it, it looks kind of weird. So let's just close it up. Okay, and let's for now just keep a y so it's easier for you to see. Now here's a funny thing. If you ever use a actual sample photo, just know that the photo, the shape that you see inside a photo would never quite match the sizes given to you underneath the photo. Because when the photographers prepping a handbag or even a pair of shoes, well more so hemmed back to be photographed. They add a lot of stuffing. They stretch it so the shape and the size don't always match. So as a designer, if you use a reference image, that's when you have to use your better judgement to figure it out. In our case, I'm looking at this and I feel like I'm missing some height. I am also missing some top width. So what I'm doing is, oh, actually it did. You see this is now centered correctly. Did you see how this line, the space created is smaller than the space over here. Interesting. So let me redo. There we go. So that tells me this is a really actually a very good lesson right here. Is this. The top and the bottom width are not aligned properly. There we go. You see it was not aligned properly. So now let's just do it again. On this. No, just know that it's better for you to start remembering the hockey, especially when you have a lateral designs you had to pump out per day. Honestly, going back to the toolbar like every few seconds is quite exhausting. So as I'm using the hotkeys, I'm just called them out and then you can memorize them. So now when I look at it, I feel like the height is not there, so I'm going to add one centimeters. So let's make this 30.2. There we go. Oh, by the way, let's go back to our reference point. Do I want the top to extend or the bottom to extend up to you depending on what the designers, if you don't want anything to move, they'll change on the top that may show you select your reference point on the top. If it doesn't matters, then you can do it however you want. So let's say my case, I don't want the top to move, I only want the bottom to extend. So I selected the top reference point and I change this to 30.2 centimeter. Perfect. So now just make a note 30-point to you changed it and I'm going to delete this so I don't confuse myself. Now. Delete that. When I look at it, I realize the bottom is a bit more tapered and the top. So I have two ways of fixing this. I can either extend this top line again or I can retract the bottom line. For learning purpose. I'm going to retract the bottom line. So go back to your line tool. And the hockey is the slash. So let me de-select this and I'm pressing the slash key. There we go. So the bottom was 40 centimetre. How long is this? 36 less than I bring it down to 39. Okay, tiny little bit. Now, remember you need to center this. The shape is not going to be right. Alright, perfect. Match, a match. Whoops, sorry. Will you select anchors? Make sure, like I said before, make sure you use this white arrow key, which is direct selection tool. So now I'm pretty sure, yep, I've matches. So now I can delete the skyline. I don't need it anymore. Now let's just say this is what we want. But now here's the thing. You see how there's a very nice curvature on the side. This is because leather has weight. So when you let it sit on itself, it will start to drip downwards because the weight is going to carry down. And it will create a really nice curvature. When we create paper patterns, we don't cut the paper curved unless you want it to be curved. We cut the paper straight. That's a reason why when we do the actual tech pack, we also do not make the line curved because that will confuse the pattern maker. They may actually go there and cut the leather in a curvature shape. Look, if that's what you want, you draw a curved line. But for the most part we know this is a straight cut, so we'll keep the lie here, here straight. Now, one thing for aesthetics, did you see how there's a very nice corner? How do you create a corner? Switch to your direct selection tool, which, whose hockey is a, select the anchor. You see this tiny little circle. This is the corner radius. You select the circle. And then you will get this little menu called corners. You can change it to 1 cm corner radius like that. Or you can select this corners tab and then you can do it here. It doesn't matter. Now, let's do it over here as well. So it's symmetrical. 1 cm. So this is one, this is three, this is two. And then we can zoom out to see the difference. When I look at it, one makes more sense. So let's change this site back two. Now, certain companies I've worked for, but they're very stringent about making the tech pack as accurate as possible. They may even add a tiny little corner like 0.2 over here to make it look more realistic. In case you don't know, you, it's very difficult to solve a straight line on the sewing machine. That's a reason why if you were to look at any bags, so any leather goods, even apparel very carefully, there's no straight edges whatsoever because of the way the sewing machine is built. So we usually curved at all the corners. Some companies, they don't care, then you don't need to worry about it. So this is your silhouette for the toe. If you still feel like it's not really matching back and find that you can make a slightly longer, okay, now I see it's a bit more. I just drag it randomly, just 31.7, that doesn't make us 32, I call it a day. Great. We are going to learn how to create shoulder straps. So there are many, many a gazillion, different types of shoulder strap and top handle designs. As you can see. The trick is this. This is called a spread. I'm going to type it out spread. I'm gonna make it red so you can see there. So it is the distance between the center of this anchor. This is called an anchor attachment connected to a strap to the center of this strap anchor. And we measure from the center because when the pattern maker is creating a paper pattern, they literally use either a pen on all and then they will mark the center aware the anchor attachment will go. And this is why we create a tech pack to mimic what they do in reality. So the wider the spread, this is a trick. The wider the spread, the shorter your strap drop needs to be to go over your shoulder. So let me just write down drop. We measure this length drop. Okay? So the wider the spread, the shorter to drop, the narrower the spread, the longer the drop, get it. Normally, standard drop size is anywhere from eight inch to an inch. I do apologize. Was switching between metrics and period because unfortunately consumers in the retail world in the United States still go by inches. So again, we have our trusted conversion calculator here, nine inch 22 playing. I'll round this up to 22.9 or 23. You don't want that just make a 23. And then that's the night inch to 8 " 20.3. So let's just funny, 0.20 0.3 CAN to why was it 23? So this is the standard drops. Shoulder drop. If you want the shoulder strap to go over your shoulder. If you are only thinking about what we call a handheld top handle that's not going to go over your shoulder. Then the draft for that standard drop. Let me just type this out. For the top handles. It can go anywhere from three inch to five or six. Let's just say 6 ". Actually, no, I'm sorry. It's five-sixths is neither here nor there. Three is 7.6 to what is 5 ". Oh, sorry. Mom plays 12.7. Okay. So this is the shoulder strap top handle rule that we follow. However, all that being said, if your company or if you yourself want to design for plus size. Now, all these sizes do not really apply anymore. You will literally have to go by your plus size, model size and calculate from there. But this is for the rest of the market. Nafld, NAFLD plus size. This is a standard size guideline we follow. In my other classes, I'll be teaching the different types of shoulder strap designs and top handle designs. For today's purpose, I'm just going to show you the simplest way of creating a flat leather strap, following the measurement rules that we just established. So the first thing you need to decide two things is how wide is your straps gonna be, the spread? We're going to find a spread and how far down on the bag do you want it to go? Now, use your slash, hockey slash. Get this tool, the line tool, and make sure you're touching the top line. When you touch it, you'll see the blue highlight happening because we have the smart guides selected. Hello smart guy, right over here. Yay. We also have, what was it? The show slices selected. That's a reason why you can see it. Alright, so as you're dragging press and hold shift. So it's a straight line. Let's say I want to go, how far down do want to go? That's actually a good question, isn't it? You know what? Let's see. That might be a bit too far down. So reference point, I'm selecting the top because I don't want to talk to move. Let's say we retract this 266, maybe a little bit too high up. Let's do seven. Okay, so now I'm going to go into change this color to red. The reason why I'm changing it to raise because this is not part of the drawing. This is just a guideline I'm using. Now. I'm going to select this ruler whole drag. Make sure it touches the edge, the end anchor of the slide. If it's not that easy, you just select that and okay, now it's touching. You can delete this. Now. Select the guideline again, press and hold command to we lock it. So now I'm working with a guideline right there. So this is how far down? Seven centimeter down that I want to attach the shoulder strap. What about the spread? Let's just randomly drew a line slash line tool. So now this is 10.55, It's too short. 16.7, almost there, but what about if I change it to 18th? Okay, let me zoom out again. Zoom is come in. Zoom in is Command Plus, Plus sign. And then Zuma has come in with minus sign. Let's center this center line. Okay? I really like this. Go to the site of the ruler. Here's my mouse, cursor. Drag it here. Once you get a hang of this, you don't, you don't even need to create all these guidelines all over the place there for me when I draw, I do it so quickly, I just do it and you will get there with practice. So hold down command to number two, you lock it. Now let's also drag another guideline to the end of the spread. Zoom in Command Plus side. Okay, make sure you my thing is not snapping, snap to points, so it should work. Yeah. So usually what happens is that when you have snap to points selected, this line, the skyline and any other guideline will just snap to point. Okay, there we go. Okay. Delete. I don't need that anymore. So now I know my shoulder strap attachment. This is a central Foy. One anchors here, the other anchor will be here and it will go across, oh, now we need to find. Well, the drop is remember we said usually is 8-9, ". Why does it go tonight? Inches. Sometimes we need to want that. Sometimes we also need to account for people wearing winter coats, which sometimes we'll even add a one-fourth inch to the drop length. And so if this particular bag, let's say it's very seasonal, We only solid during a winter usually that's what I will increase the drop lengths tonight inch. So that'll be 23 centimeter. So let's do it. Again. Kinda Iowa, where to send it out. See that guy like so here's a center. Use your line tool. Make sure it intersect with this top edge. Lie. There we go. My bad. I'm supposed to hold it down. Hold down your Shift, click and drag. How much is that? 23.08. So 23, awesome. Let's do we go? You know what I do? I'm paranoid, so I'm constantly centering this and I always zoom in. And then I drag another blue highlight down and made sure it's touching and command to lock it. And then I will do another guideline just to find the center point and lock it. You can delete this. We're ready to do this. Okay. How Why do you want it to be, let's say 2.5 centimeter. Okay. So I want this to be full of filled. I'm sorry. Okay. So I arbitrarily just drew a line and it's definitely not 2.5 centimeter wide. So let me just type 2.5 right over here now we're talking. Now remember this is the center. So let's say I want this to be exactly maybe too. Yeah. To sorry. To trust me with practice. You can finish this toe in 10 min. I'm just slowing down my entire process so you can see. Okay. Okay. Makes your top it's alive. No. You know what toes too short as 23. So three is there and let's just hit it. And make sure you see how the center point is here, but you centralize here, that's what you had to drag it to make it intersect. Cool. Now, this is why we do. So that was three. So I can make it six. So remember the distance from here, this is your center point font here is three, from here should be 32. But as you can see, my 6.02 is very minor, but I want it to be perfect. So I select this. And then I mentioned my reference points at the bottom because I don't want the bottom to move. I want the bottom to extend upward. I retract this, okay by two is somebody new canvas see anyways. And then on this side, pen tool matches shift. Okay, stop right here. Now we're gonna do the phone, what I call the Golden Arch. Alright. Pen tool selected, click the same point. Remember this is your 23 drop. Click, hold down, Shift and drag, and then you can adjust your arch curvature however you want. If you don't hold down Shift, that's when you can do something crazy like this, but I'm going to hold it down so it's so it's perfect. Okay. From this point on top, you come down here, come back. Oh, you see what happened? I don't have enough paper view, so that's okay. You just select the handle. Make sure the lines don't overlap. See, this was overlapping now it's not I just opened it up. And you have your very first strap. You see how you can still see the line for the body because the strap is not fill. So just press that It's fill. Let's say I want to make a strap more feasible to jump out. I can make this thicker layer, 0.07 centimeter in. Wait. There we go. Or I can go to brushes. I pick a different brush. So you know, it's darker or this one or that, or that doesn't matter. There most of the time we just use the basic. So now I'm going to stick to the basic. I'm going to redo this so it's thicker. I'm gonna do 0.1. Now, what do you do with the outer part of the strap? This part, super-simple, select, hold down option, duplicate, see the two arrows. But this isn't not facing the right direction. Suppose the face that way. So what do you do? Mirror it. So the hockey for mirror is 0. So it's right over here. The mirror tool reflect, I like to call a mirror, but it's actually reflects the same thing. So now you just flip it. There we go. Alright. So you just have to make sure you come back to the center and then you select this I want this strap to match the placement. And align it at the bottom. So a line at the bottom. Finish. Know you have enough. There's one last step you have to do, which is, what about this part? Undecided the strap. So even though this is a 10-pack, this is not a perfect imagery we want and oh, and did you see that when I zoom in, there's a fricking gap. So I just had to be they could touch a kiss. There we go. So coming back to what I was saying, the point of the tub pack is for the pattern maker to figure out how to construct your bag. Most of the time, picked when you draw something and you forgot to draw the other flap that I'm sorry, on the strap is fine. But nowadays, a lot of the sales team, the merge T, will expect to use the image of the cat that you have created as a sales tool. So you want this cat to look as realistic, Reflecting real life construction as possible. So in this case, we are going to add the underflow under strap. My apology. So what you do is use the pen tool P is the hockey. Pick a point somewhere over here to make sure that the width over here will match the width of the strap over here. So when I, I feel like it's over here. And then let's say the width is somewhere over here. Drag it and see that it lines up with the other anchor. And then you just drag and Finish. Now you have a realistic strap with the underside of it. Some people will say that, well, this is how to y, that's okay. Then just select used to dress selection tool and just make it skinnier. There. Problem-solve. Now this is more realistic. So now you have your spread. Speaking of that, how do we add your measurements? First thing you do is you need to indicate what view is this. This is the front view. In the next video, I'm going to go into, show you how to draw all the views. Because remember the pattern maker needs to see all the views to figure out how to actually create a patterns. So this thing up into 3D realistic bag. But before we get there, labeled this as a front view. So you remember, and one trick I have learned is that go to your Layers, create a separate layer for texts only and double-click changed layer 12 artworks. What happened is that when this gets really complicated and you need to go in and change things, a lot of times there are so many texts all over the face of the bag. You can't even you had to de-select everything to delete what you really need to delete. And sometimes you end up accidentally deleting the tax that's overlapping on top of your drawing. So I have learned to separate the text from the drawing. So now you have created two separate layers. Select all the texts that you want it to go on the second layer. So once you select all, see there's a blue button here. Just click hold, drag it up to the red. Now everything, all the texts is on this red layer which corresponds to this array highlight. But how can I tell, how can I double-check these selectors? Oh, I made this layer invisible. So all the texts, all the content on this layer will disappear. Like these. I didn't put it on that layer, the red layer. So let me just select all whole drag up. There we go. And now just click on the I icon to make it visible again there. Now so what I'm going to do, I'm going to lock the artwork layer. I'm going to select the text layer and I am going to add the measurements. First thing I do is I use red. For the most part. Most companies that use red lines as an indicator line, but some companies prefer blue. Some company I've seen company using the green, so just follow your company and you should be fine. So the first thing I'm going to do is indicate the drop length of the strap is from the topmost part of the strap to the top most part of your back. So let's make this a little bit thicker so you can see it. Okay? So now remember I was saying that you need to have your stroke panel open. This is why I go to arrowheads. Let's change it to arrow. You see that? Let's do again arrow, that's the top. Another arrow, that's detail. Okay, so now you have two arrows. Now, you type, what was it that we say 23, 23, center meter. But this is a little bit today, so let's take this down a little bit. 16 might be too small, let's do 24. There we go. 24 points. And some people like to just also add drop, like literally spelled it out for the factoring because they don't know that 23 centimeter meter is indicating the drop. That's totally fine, not the end of the world. Now let's measure the spread. Again from the center, you can do it however you want. You could just do it like this. Because we snap to point. You will feel a bit of a resistant once you hear the point right here. Do double arrows. And because I am a perfectionist, I just like to add this indicator lying to make sure the pattern maker fully understands. It stops right here in the center. And then again, select Duplicate. How wide is the spread? I forgot already. So what do you do? Select a line itself. The indicator line, 17.99 is really 18. So 18 centimeter spread there. Because I'm crazy there. I just want to make sure it really hits. So now do you see how important it is when you add an indicator lines, you had to touch the point, even if you're just 10.1 centimeter off, you are off. So you had to be zooming in all the time. You had to, you had to turn on a smart guy. You had to turn on snap to points so you can feel it literally as your work when the lines are hitting the points that you need it to hit. Okay, so now we have that. Why do we indicate next? Well, how big is this bag? That's kind of important. So this is what I do. I use the pen tool or you can use the line tool. It doesn't even matter. I usually like to see that it's touching. Let me zoom in. Touching the 0.09. Exactly. Okay. Now it's touching appointment. There. Go here, touching the point. Select. Now we need to find a width. So here's a high, we don't care. Here's a width, 41.48, 41.5. So let's do here. You can add a top width. For the most part. If you work with a really wild experience while repute a factory, you don't really need to add top with. They know, they know exactly what you're trying to measure. Now let's do the height. Height. Okay? So I like to zoom in just to make sure it's really sitting on the line. So I'm measuring OC is already off slightly. There we go. Now we need a height, 32. We don't need to care about the width because the width is this part. That's not necessarily, that's not needed. So again, duplicate. Now the bottom, bottom is very important. There are two different ways to measure the bottom. If this bag does not have any bottom panel, is literally this front piece and the back piece it together. Then you have to measure it. From here, lying what I call edge to edge, line to line. And then zoom in to make sure it's touching. Oh, by the way, to do technical design. Make sure you have multiple cups of water and coffee and have a really awesome music lists because is laborious. Okay, So anyways jokes the size 39.1. Okay, so deny 0.1. Again because 0.1 is so tiny, we can literally drop it. It's not going to affect the pattern-making at all. So let's do that. If it's 39.5 and don't drop it, keep it. My rule of thumb has always been anything beyond a 0.2. I should keep it. You just found a measurement. Isn't this great? Cool. Oh wait, no, the couple of things we forgot to do. How why is this strap we need to indicate that touching it. Oh, did you see what just happened? This thing is wavy because I forgot to hold down my Shift key. So it's a good thing I should make that mistake so you can see it. Okay. Hold down, Shift. If you want any straight line, drag it out, they would go. How wide is this? 2.5. Like we said, it would be awesome. Let's do it. And I forgot to indicate, where do I want this? How far down the bag do I want them to start creating? Attaching, not creating, attaching the strap. Now, the reason why this became light, this was because prior to drawing the line, I was writing it, so it's just matching back to the writing. So all you have to do, remember the eyedropper, press the Eye dropper, select what you want. There it is. So we said this will be how 77 cm from measure from the top. And I, you will also need to give the length over here so the pattern maker can actually measure then from how, how far down they need to start measuring this part. So this is the high three we go. So this part of the strap is actually ten centimeter long. So when you indicate a so clearly there is absolutely no way, absolutely no way the pattern maker will make a mistake unless he wasn't paying attention. And in one of the future classes, I will actually show you why full-size specking is so important. Because what we end up doing is we will literally, when we receive the sample in real life, we will print now this tote in full size paper, will tape it together and we will lay it right next to the sample derives on the floor and compare and contrast literally right there. In real life. Sometimes when I print out the paper and I put the tote bag right next to it. I can tell immediately as missing something or it's perfect. Hopefully it's perfect. So there you have it. This is the front view of a very simple tote bag. I will see you in the next video where I'm going to show you how to complete the rest of the views for pattern-making. 4. Extra Credit - How To Draw & Measure Bottom Construction: Coming back to the bottom, how do you measure if you actually have a bottom panel? And the first thing you need to do is you actually have to draw the bottom panel. And sometimes I just do a very quick like that. And then what I will do is literally another piece of leather you add to the bottom of your bag to prop it up. We usually add filler to the bottom, so then you're back and actually stand on its own. The reason why I just opened up the shape head all, because I want to change all of the corner radius at the same time. So I will lock it and I'll do 0.1. Let me see. Do I see a difference? Yeah, I see a difference. So it's more rounded now perfect. If your word for mid to higher level companies, like coach or a product, they do expect you to show them the actual thickness of the letter. It can range from anywhere from 0.6 to 2.8 depending on how sick of whether you're using, I usually keep around 0.25 or two a, we actually measure the width of the bottom panel. So now the bottom panel will be Doo-doo-doo-doo 37. 37. Now you may be like, well, what about over here? What have over there that's still part of the bag? Yes, it is. So what we will do is I was into k. So I will indicate that and I will make this into a dotted line. So how do you create data line? Go to stroke, dashed line like that. And this should be 39, like we mentioned before, 39.1. So at this point, this is a powerful visual measurement. Such nice centimeter. Basically what that would tell the factory is, you cut this bottom panel to be 37 centimeter long. This extra front panel. And later back panel happens when you let it, when you sew it to the bottom petal, it will do a natural drape. It will be slightly wider than the bottom panel. And because it's visually wider than the bottom panel, therefore, we write visual measurement as 39th centimeter. Doesn't make any sense. If you guys are confused, please comment on this and I will try to do another video with actual leather sample bags for you guys to see why. It's not possible for us to give measurement of how, why? Because remember this front panel will be so and connected on the size scene. And depending on what type of leather we use, how heavy it is, it will drape differently. So this is as far as we can go. So we're basically telling the factory visually cut, makes sure that the front panel and the back panel off the toe will look a little bit wider than the bottom, bottom panel width. And visually it will look like almost 2 cm wider than the bottom panel. And that's when the pattern maker, based off of this number and cut the leather the way it should be caught to create this effect. 5. Completing Remaining Full Size Perspectives: Now that we have created the front view of a Pharaoh simple tote bag, why do we didn't need to do next? We need to create the rest of the views of how this bag looks like. Because remember the whole point of creating a tech pack is so that you can send it to the factory for them to create actual paper patterns to cut the leather, assemble each piece into a bag in real life. So we are still missing the back view, side view interior back into your front, a bottom view. And as you can see, we need a lot more art board to be able to do that. So what you do is Documents setup the art board, make it big or I think that should be enough. Yep. Alright, let's get started. So remember I locked all these blue guidelines. So go to Object, Unlock All I am going to hide. Actually, I'm going to lock in my texts for now under the layer panel. And this is what I'm actually going to do. I am going to select all the pieces that made up this front view. All the artworks. I select. All Right-click Group. Now this one single front view is grouped together so it moves the whole thing. I also want to make sure that this body is filled so there's a service we can work with, but then it made a kind of skinny. So let's just make sure this is fat. And now let's make the straps. But different stroke. There we go. Don't worry about the stitching Xia. I'm going to show you how to do that in a moment. Actually, I changed my mind. I'm going to show that how to do that right now. The way you create stitching as this, you don't just arbitrarily, let's say use the pen tool, I'll say, Okay, this is my stitch. Go to stroke. Dashed line. Looks about right. No, this is wrong. What you should do to make your life much easier is select this object, go to object path. Go to offset path is very important back in my day when I first learned about Illustrator distinct didn't even exist. Goes to show how you do negative. If you want the stitch line to go inside, you had to use the negative symbol. And 0.25. Click, Okay. See that the 0.25 basically means starting from the edge would go in 0.25 cm. To create this, to offset this brand new path. You go to dash line, you make it, let me see. 0.3 makes sense, actually makes sense. Your 0.30, 0.3, or maybe it's a little bit long to 0.20, 0.3. I like it round head. So select a round cap, round corner. You see how you rounded off because he looks at real stitch line in real life, no. Nothing is angled or sharp in real life. Am I done? No, you're not. You see what happens? The stitch line closes up over here. But if you look at the reference image we have over here, when you, So anything that line continues, all we're all the way through. So we're going to make this mimic real life as much as possible. Press C, The Hockey to select the scissor tool. Cut here. And I like to cut where this anchor is at and use the Y arrow, which is direct selection tool. Just select this piece, delete, and then extend Pen Tool, select extent. Alright, oh, did you see what just happened, this thing, the stitch line is filled. That's why you see this white color covering up the rest of the straps so you just fill it. There we go. It comes back. What do you do with this one? We'll take a look at your reference image or whatever reference bad you're currently looking at in real life, this stitch line will disappear towards the back and we'll come around towards the strap. So what you do, we do exactly that way. Make it disappear. So it looks like it extends into this part. And then we add. And then we had another one. Now that looks a lot more realistic. Now, why do we need to do offset as 0.25? Because if you ever work with a real sewing machine, you will realize that from the needle and the foot of the machine to the edge of your material. It's exactly 0.25 millimeter. So this is an actual space confined by the sewing machine in real life that we had to respect. And in later classes you will learn what happens when you just draw this top stitch however you want arbitrarily. So I selected go to Object Path, Offset Path because it's on the inside where I want it, so it's -0.25. And then make sure you do dashed line. Make sure the caps and corner I selected. Remember the stitch line should not end right here. So I'm going to cut hotkeys. See, cut. Delete this one line by itself. Extend this. So it looks like this stitch goes all the way around here. And this one, it's also extend it. So this also goes continues on, on the underside of the flap and then just make sure it's not filled. Stitches are never filled. Okay. Now you have a more realistic looking strap. Now what I do is I select the outline of the strap. I'll make it thicker like I was doing before. So there's a variation in a separation from the stitch line. So let me select the top end of bias. I'll group it. Perfect. Why do I do that? I like to group different anatomy of the bag so that when you need to zero in on this one segment, you can just select this one segment and not the rest of the bag. Now, we also need to add stitch line on the top. In later classes, I'm going to talk about the anatomy of the bag and the construction of a bag where you ask stitch line depends on how you're going to cut this and sold us. So for now, let's not worry about how this bag is actually going to be cut. And so let's just add a stitch line for the sake of doing it, I just arbitrarily added as lime. And it's definitely not 0.25 centimeter away from the top edge. So what you should have done, or I should have done is select this object path, offset path. There we go. I draw this. This is wrong because you don't stitch the panel I, that the front panel will be so all the way to the size scenes. So you caught and cot and you get rid of this. That's all you're going to have. The top stitch look at your own TO you'll see how it's done. Now all of this is finished, and let's say I'm happy with it. Select everything and group it. Next. We're going to do back view, select this, duplicate that, and make sure it's lined up properly. There we go. You literally just do your own backfill for some bad design back in front of you are completely different. For instance, some people may add a pocket in the front, but there's no pocket on the back, and that's totally fine. You can still duplicate the front and when you make it into the back, just delete the pocket. So what I'm actually doing now is I'm lining up the top and bottom. We go. That's your backfill. If the front and the back view are the same, a lot of times to save paper, I don't even draw the back view. I literally say front and back. So then the pattern maker will understand that the front of the bag is exactly the same measurement, exactly the same design. But for our purpose, I'm just going to drag it out so you can see it. Okay. So we literally did the back view in 2 s. Now, the side view, the side view is sometimes called Gaza. Gaza is SIPs, but not all the bad construction will feature a gas it. So if that's the case, then we will just call this a side view. So how do you draw the side? This is when this lovely measurement of 5.2 inch in depth comes in. We start with the height. We always start with the height. What is the height we already established is 32 centimeter. And we can see that's the reason why I dragged this guideline over here. So bottom height is 33. So the simplest way to do this, make sure you select the right layer. We're working off of the artwork layer. Let's lock the text so we don't make any mistakes. Just drag. There we go. What did we say? 55.2 inch is in centimeter. I cannot remember. Let's go to our trust it conversion calculator, like my 213.2, 0.2, 13.2. This one is 17.9 to y. So 13 point to perfect. You got your starting point to. Now here's the thing though. It shouldn't be tubular and I'm sorry, I shouldn't be uniform like this mean that the top width should be longer than the bottom width y, because we have a trapezoid. See this, this total length is longer than the bottom line. So technically the top, It's a little bit longer. In our case, I'm going to add 1 cm longer. How do we know how long it is? We don't know because when the pattern maker is cutting this front, at this front and this back piece, they will cut it based off of the total length of the top. But because the front is this way to the back is that way. And then they come and meet right in the center of your side view. We don't really know how, why the top we'll go when we look at it from the side because he changes. So when something like this happens, all I would do is I would just kinda IS slightly, just slightly like that. There we go. I will not give him measurement because I already gave the pattern maker this measurement. So he's going to cut the leather based off of this measurement. He doesn't need as measurement anymore. And because I aligned the side view up together with this, I can also line up. I don't need to do the offset. I can line up the stitch line. Sorry, Just like that. There we go. And remember, I kept yapping about the front panel. Panel. Back panel is going to meet on the side, right in the center. That's when you do one solid line like this, which is not solid, so just uncheck the dashed line. And what is this? This is your inseam. Your front panel, your back panel. Your front is this your back? Is this meeting right in the center. And did I not also said we have a bottom panel which I just realize was not grouped with. So just double-check it. I mean, sorry, double-click it, add it back. There we go. So I'm gonna do the same with that. Make sure it's centered, doesn't look weird. There we go. Looks good. I also need to add that to this day. All we mentioned is a center. There we go. Okay. So some people said, Do I have to add the strap? Not necessarily. Some people do. Some people don't meet depends on how much time I have. If I have time, I literally just do this. I drag guidelines so I can see we're okay, It's right here. I locked the guideline. I just do a very thick line going all the way up touching that make us sick. Oh, you can't see it because I felt like that. Just make sure this recall. And I was selected. I will actually right-click arrange, send to the back. There we go. So it looks more realistic. Because this is a flat handle. You really don't need to show anything more than that. It's just the placement of it. That is your side view. I'm going to do the rounded rectangle tool selected. Okay? You know what, let me do this. Let me line it up with the widest part of the toe. The part I says a visual measurement. They don't cut they don't create cut edge like that. But when it drapes, it drapes wider than what it really is. So I imagine it is 39 centimeter the visual measurement. Ok, that looks right and let me fill it so I can see it and let me make this thick so you can see it. Now. What about width? That width is this width. So clearly this is way too wide, so I need to bring it down. So 2.2, 13.2, this is right now is 1932. There we go. You got this. That's your bottom view, but not quite. We have this bottom piece. Remember, this, is this, not this. I'm gonna make this a different color so you can see what I'm talking about. Let me just make this an obnoxious orange. There we go. So now we're gonna do this orange bottom panel. Let me do this again. You see how the corner says three centimeter. Let's make a smaller oh, sorry, I just made so press a whole the down arrow key on your bottom right keyboard. You see the numbers going down to two pi 3623, just make it go all the way down to 1 cm. Almost there. I couldn't get exactly to 1 cm. So at this point you go to shape. Make sure this is also like to type one. There we go, 1 cm. So this is going to be what was it? 37. Or I can meet us 32.2. So now there's a there's a thought process we have to do now, a decision we had to make. I can make this panel as wide as the overall bag depths. But as you can see, it's already kind of pushing out because the overall bag has a much larger curvature at each corner compare to the bottom panel. So when something like this happens, you had to make a decision. I want to keep the width, the length of this, but I need to tone down on the depths. Let's bring it to ten. Does that make sense to you? So what will happen is when a pattern maker sees the bottom panel is smaller than your overall bag size, what is telling him is 0, the front panel and the back panel. I had to so it into the bottom panel. So there will be a very nice curvature when they fold the leather inward, downward into the bottom panel. And the smaller the bottom panel, the more room the pattern maker will have to fold a piece of leather. So right now when I look at it, it looks a little bit too narrow for me, so I'm going to increase it. Does this make sense? Let me center efforts. Okay. You know what? It makes sense? I want him, the pattern maker to just fall a little bit like maybe five millimeter. It looks like it into the bottom panel. But then I don't like how sharp the round corners are compared to the overall bag. That's when I go back to a shape, make sure all is locked and let me increase the round the corner. Does that make more sense now to two centimeter? You know what I think? I think two makes more sense. Let's keep it like that. So now we have this, let's center it. Now. The bottom panel, well need to have stitch because you're stitching the bottom panel onto the bottom of the tote. So let's select that path, offset path. Perfect. And I'm going to use the eyedropper tool. I draw the dash line. That's it. You can add little feet if you like. You know what? I'll just show you how to do that. In the next class, we will actually talk in depth about how to create metal hardware and how to utilize them. So we don't need a dashed line for this. I already have a pre-made hardware finishing. Shiny goes, so I'm just going to select this. The hardware pieces actually come a very specific sizes. So the numbers cannot be arbitrary. The numbers had to be matching back to what your hardware supplier half or unless your customer care for our case, I'm going to keep a one by five because I know this is a custom size that you can buy in a material market. So you have one feet. But before I go to another feet, this is, I need to show you how to measure it so then we can put placement or other feet in the correct place. We usually put out the four corners or in the center tool, doesn't matter. And we had to measure how far from the edge of the bottom panel do we start hammering the feet? Right now I just randomly drew a line in red. This is the height is 1.7. It looks about right? I like 1.7, while the how far away from this edge? I say one pi seven makes sense. Now, exactly 1.7. Does that make sense? Let's do okay, Now I had to put reference point to the left because I don't want the left to move. I want this line to extend out from the left to the right. So I had to lock the left. So let's do 1.8. Okay. You know what? Let's also do this 11.89. So think about it, it makes more sense. Okay? So now they both, these two lines connect a center point. You see that? And then now what I like to do is I like to select all and I duplicate all. And I do rotate, which is E? Hockey is e, the letter E, and user rotate there. Perfect. Then you do the same. Over here. Rotate. I didn't, I missed it. There we go. Now. Lastly, rotor. That is done. You have your bottom panel. Oh wait, that's not done. You can look at what's happening here. We have this insane. Okay, Where are you from panel back panel actually connects and soul together. Let me just drag this over so you can see it. There we go. So this is the continuation of that. See that from pedal, front panel, back panel by panel. Let's also color this orange. Your bottom panel. Bottom panel. What about your easing? Whoops, forgot to do the insane. That's okay. Double-click on this ad. We go, just make sure it's centered because I'm paranoid. Okay, and measure. Now, how do you center this? First, we need to select this all defeat. Bottom panel with stitching. Grew up it select all center, okay, its center. Natural bottom panel. We still need to show two views that are required in all the topics that you will ever do for bag with smaller the goods interior back, interior front. We need to show the pattern maker what do we want the inside of the bag to look like? Okay? So usually what we do is we give The pattern maker, the outline of the overall bag that looks like this. In this case, I'm going to ungroup it and delete the top handle. Why? Because I'm showing the inside of the bag. So now, with that being said, I'm going to bring something. This particular swatch card. Let's just pretend you didn't see this. Here. This is my trusted lighting swatch. I will show you guys how to actually create this. If you guys are interested, leave a comment. I'll create a specific class just about how to create repeat swatches. There. You just fill it up no-brainer. And the pattern looks tiny, so I'm actually going to right-click transform, scale it up, make sure you don't transform the objects were only transfer me the patterns corner stroke, and in fact, let's make this 150. You can do preview. That looks more like it. You like it. You click. Yes. That's it. In an interior back panel. If you look at any bags you have, what what do you see? You usually see a zipper compartment. This is your zipper compartment. Okay. So let's do this. So there are a couple of things about the zipper compartment. And the first thing you need to give is obviously, how long is the zipper compartment gonna be? This varies based on the actual size of the bag, some smaller bags, we don't even add as if a compliment because it's so small. This is Niven room to add a zipper, foot bigger bags. It can go anywhere from 18 centimeter or 2022, 26, I think the largest I ever worked on. The zipper compartment was closest 30 cm long, which is so huge. Then you had to give how, why the zipper window, this is called zipper window is going to be this one is 1.21, 0.2 is fairly standard. 1 cm is also standard, 2.52. However you want. I seen the maximum you can do is probably fine because the zipper tape is sell only goes up to five centimeter long. So you had to give the zipper window size. Then the zipper window length. I guess you can call this the width or height, doesn't even matter at this point. Usually for zippers, just to show you a little bit of a BOM, which I will talk about in my next class. I feel I'm digging a hole for myself. We need to also talk about what type of zipper is a YKK? What number is it, what color is it? Is a metal versus nine on all sorts of good stuff. We need to talk about it. But for now, this is the measurement we need to give. Plus the measurement of fun. How far up, down do we start making this zipper window? Certain companies, they don't tell the factory want to do it. They have the factory tell them what to do. Because when the factory is actually creating the paper pattern based on the material that you select a realise that the number that you give them probably won't work. They will start adjusting. Some companies they tell the factory exactly what lengths they want. So again, just follow your company skyline. So this is the drop from top. Recall. So these three are very crucial measurements you need to give the factory. Sometimes I'm sure you have also seen as you all the time, is people will put a logo label right over there. If that's the case, just put it there if you want Offset Path, this is your logo label. Now I'm just going to type logo because I don't know why logo you use this. Okay. And in fact, let's see if I can show you guys is why I'd say, okay. So when you type anything, you want to make it into outlines so you can fill it up with colors. You just select it, go to type, type is off here, go to Create Outlines. And now I can fill this now becomes a metal logo. But let me just make sure I also create a black outline. What do you see happening? Do you see how close the logo is to the stitch line, a lateral ties because things are not drawn up to scale. We literally see designers sending us tech packs where it looks like this. But in reality, when we start hammering the logo onto the logo label is sitting on top of the stitch line and break through both the stitch line and label. And it's very ugly. And as a simple mistake that should never have happened. This is a reason why drawing full-size is so important. So you don't waste your time. You don't waste a factory is tight and you don't make mistakes. So let's say, I don't really quite like how the shape of this logo label looks compared to the logo itself. So I want to make it a bit narrower like this. And then just central line group. Now you're done. If you do add a logo label, you have to give the size of the logo label itself. And sometimes certain companies are very detail oriented. We even give the distance between the window, the zip window, and the logo label you had to give the distance. Now, last but not least, the next view we had to do is called interior from what's on the front side of this toll, you have to tell the factory. We adding nothing. Are we adding the standard pockets like these two? So this is what we call a sender, miscellaneous pocket, miscellaneous pocket. This could be a cell phone pocket doesn't matter. So this is how we will show it. And let me just align this group. It is not. Let me just group this so I can have a piece of my okay. We'll pick repair interior, front, interior back. So here's a funny thing. If you look at all the bags you own, you will very quickly realized that the drop for the interior back first, let's just draw for the interior from It's not always the same mean that these two miscellaneous pockets don't always line up with the height of this zip window. Why is that? I very quickly realized that if people are going to put pen or the iPhone here, pen, iPhone come in various sizes and length, which means that sometimes this pocket knee needs to be much lower than this is Zip window. You can measure the iPhone swallow and then figure out the drop yourself. So now let me just group this and you have finished. This is all the views that's required to finish a, what we call a full-size standard Terrapin from back, psi, bottom interior, back, interior front. Sometimes we will add in top view or three-quarter view. Top view. I only add it. What if there's something interesting about the closure? I want people to be able to see it from a bird's-eye view. Right now, this is a totally open bag. There's no closure, so I'm not going to add the top view. 6. How To Use Symbols: Let's talk about symbols. How do you create symbols? First thing, let's clean up the workstation, the art board first, let's unlock all. Let us delete all these guidelines. There we go. So let's open that your symbol menu as y over here. If you don't have it, you should be able to find it under, let me see windows. You see symbols, symbols right here that it should pop up. So here's the thing about symbols. The way you create it is you select the entire object you just created. Literally drag and drop. You can name it. I usually don't bother. Make a dynamic symbol and export movie clip, click. Okay. Now, when you select it again, did you see how it's no longer the bounding box with all the anchors in lines is actually just a bounding box with no anchors whatsoever. I'm going to explain why that's the case. Let's also what the front of the back is the same. So let me just use create one symbol instead. Group all of them. Drag-and-drop. Bottom is important. Drag and drop. Okay. Let us do this one. Oh, did you see what I did? Some parts of it. The bottom panel is actually in the texts. Let's drag it down. Let's group it. There we go. And then let's open that symbol again. Drag and drop. Click. Okay. This one actually see this, float it up. Okay, Let me see drag-and-drop. Alrighty. So these are your symbols, but why do we need it? A lot of times, let's say you've worked on this back many, many, many, many times. And you'll design director says, I feel like this is a little bit too small. Can you show me an option when is 10% or 20% bigger? What do you do? You leave this as is you duplicate. Right-click. Go to Transform Scale. This time, did you see how I scaled it up by 50%? 100 is your original size, so 150 is 50% larger. Let's say you want to show your design director that this bag is 20% larger, so it's an, a 150, you type 120. Okay, so it's a little bit bigger. You can see that this is already 20% bigger than that. Okay? Then what if your boss, your CEO says, I feel like 20% is way too big and I see it like maybe just 10% bigger than the original. You'll like you serious. I had to do that again. Okay, fine. So you drag the original and then you right-click Transform Scale instead, a one-twenty, you do 110. There we go. Okay. You love your design director, loved it, the CEO loves it. And then all of a sudden you show it to a buyer viruses, I know this is way too big, small bags that Kami back give me something small. How about the original size? What if this conversation happens three months later? What if nobody remembers? What do your original sizes? Well, this is where the symbols comes in. All these changes I just made. Guess what happens when I want to find what the original is. Select right-click, reset transformation. It bounces back to this original size. Oh my gosh, that's it. So symbols saves all your original cats inflammation. And here's another kicker. Let's say I create multiple art boards for whatever reason. So I do edit art board and then I just do option, duplicate, option to pay like that. Let me delete everything. I don't need this. I mean, in the future. Okay. You have one bag over here. One bag over there. And let's say one of your merchandise to say, Hey, can we add a flower on it? Okay. Flower. Sure, I can do that. So what do you do? You double-click. When you double-click any symbol, basically opens up the symbol so you can go into the actual drawing. You just create it. You can add or delete anything. Now you're merge says she wants a flower and let's say it's embroidery. So you drew a flower like this. Okay, Let's just pretend this, as far as I know it's not, but let's just pretend this. Okay, So you had this beautiful flower, everybody loves it. And then now you have to update your entire tech pack to reflect a flower. Guess what happened? Whatever changes you may hear, it happens over here. It happens over here. So whatever changes you made to one single symbol, when you add a symbol to any pages, that symbol will show the changes that you've made. This is very helpful when literally you're working on 5678 designs at the same time, so you don't have to go into individual drawing at that flower. Now let's say, your design director counts back and say, oh my gosh, the flowers, such a bad idea, I hated it. Fine. Double-click the symbol. You can do it here on the art board, or you can go to the symbol and just double-click it. You see it's the same thing and delete it. And then double-click anywhere outside of the symbol, it comes back. Now it's all gone. Not here. Not here. So that's how you keep all the inflammations archive in a symbol. Sometimes when we work, we literally have hundreds of symbols saved in Assemble menu because you never know when you need to pull what. For instance, this is a zipper poll. I create it and I saved it as a symbol so I can add it to any bag. If I decide to add a zipper closure to this Double-click on the symbol, edit. It is. Let's say we decided not to have the little embossing the center Dilly. So you go to your symbol, you double-click on your little to propose symbol. Unless they, nobody likes this, go anymore for next season, everyone's switching it to silver Nicole color. I did that on my art board. Wherever this metal zipper symbol is that it changes automatically. So that's how we work. So symbol is extremely important. I sometimes also save individual elements like a pocket so as symbols. So that when I'm designing into different bags and I realized, Oh, I can actually use that pocket. I just drag and drop, drag and drop. That's all I need to do. So I don't have to keep drawing everything from scratch. And I do the same with shoulder straps, especially when you have multiple shoulder strap designs that rotates season after season after season. 7. Adding Remaining Measurements & Final File Prep: Finished adding measurements. So front and back are exactly the same. So I'm not going to add measurements here. Thus began with a side view. You select the text layer, I'm going to lock the artwork layers, so then my measurement doesn't end up on the artwork layer. And let's just begin. So we know as I'm working on it, I realized that I may have missed make the oops, the bottom panel to shore. So all you had to do because I saved this as a symbol already. Double-click on symbol. You can double-click on the art board itself or the symbol panel like I did just now, and just make sure it matches. That's all. Again, this is just me being me. You don't have to do it where it didn't know what the height is. So we don't need to add that. What we do need to add is indicating to the fashion what this is. This is actually insane. So they know how to sell it. They know they had to sell this from the inside out. So if on the inside, turn it outside. So that's what it needs to know. For the edge pain. How to finish edges. I will talk about that under the bags anatomy class. So today we're just going to skip that. Okay. So this is extra, we can delete it. That was just me showing you guys how to do it. Okay. So now let's do this. Sometimes I repeat measurements from page to page, especially if there's a lot of inflammation and I don't want the pattern maker to have to flip back to the first page to figure out what this is. So in this case, I will indicate the measurement for the bottom panel as well as the visual measurement for the bottom of the toe itself. So select these two guidelines, create a arrowheads. Okay? So the length, this is 37, the height of this is 12. Okay, cool. Now I remember this is 1.8 centimeter from the edge, right? Yeah, I was right, one point a. I also remember this is also 1.81, 0.8. So duplicate one point ACM. And really that's all you need to do. You don't need to repeat the same thing on the same page over and over again. So I'm actually going to delete these. I mean, look, if any family needs you to do that, I don't think you should be working with a factory. There we go. Okay, cool. In terms of what type of metal feet we're currently using here. I will talk about that a under the class when I talk about BOM bills of materials. So stay tuned on that. Now, an experienced factory when they see a drawing like this, they know exactly how to do it. But if you're working with a new factory or a factory who's not very good at interpreting your tech pack. Sometimes I will add supporting information such as what I'm doing now. I created a curve arrow. Over here. I will literally write instructions. I'll spell it out. Front and back panels. So into soul, into bottom panel in case they need it. Honestly, if they need this, maybe you shouldn't be working with. So this is the visual measurement. Cool. I will also give the overall what was it? 2.2, 13.2. There we go. And this will be sufficient for the factory to start cutting patterns by seven long. And this is 1.2, I believe, 1.21, 0.2. For our purpose, I'm gonna give it a drop. So this one says 5.5, good enough for me if I clarify. Now, I have to give this bit of a gap distance. I think I said five millimeter. I was so close to 6 mm. When you start to work on this on a daily basis, you'll literally can I it and kinda know like, how wide, how long does this. I've been working as a technical designer for 15 years. So I pretty much can I since at this point. Yeah. There we go. So again, if this is a logo label, you need to give the label size on this 4.6. This is two. Okay, I don't like how this zipper ball is floating as cutting into the lining. So double-click on the symbol, double-click your end, and then just line it up properly the way you like it and call it a day. Safe, always save. So now we also do the same over here. Give it, sorry, hold on, shift. So we can do a straight. The length of it, the height of it. Again, the height and the length will change based on what type of stuff you want people to be able to put into it if you want. I don't like how this is curved. If you want people to be able to put their iPhone, some people even want their iPad Mini Being able to fill into it. So maybe you should do a single pocket versus two. So it's up to you whatever functions you want this pocket to perform, you had to make it a size-wise to fit that function. This is actually called a binding, which I will also talk about it in the handbag anatomy class. So stay tuned for that. But yes, you will have to give a binding size so the pattern maker knows how why they need to cut the paper pattern for it. Then you see a square stitch. So basically on the sewing machine, but did they just do like a turnaround ago around the merry-go-round. So let me grab so let's just say this is how much? 11, 11 centimeter in height. This is 22 in width. And I'm just going to, this is not accurate, but I'm just going to say the binding is a millimeter long. And over here, I will indicate a fold, swatch. Let me make this arrow one fold. If you have a really good factory, don't know exactly what this is. What this is. If you look at your bag and just go to the miscellaneous pocket, you'll realize that there's a bit of extra material. So your pocket is not completely flat. Your pocket actually has depth. So then you can put your iPhone, you, because your iPhone is fat. And then this is how you indicate that you want to add a fold here. Any good factorial? Totally understand it. Sound company, we'll call this a plead. That works too, because they are literally creating a plea. So either way works. And then like I said, you also need to add the drop here because I want my customer to be able to put the iPhone enough so I maximize to drop as much as I can. This one is nine by seven. I shouldn't make attend, but it's okay. Nothing has to be whole number all the time. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. We also do this. We draw a dotted arrow from the zip window all the way down to the bottom of your bag. Why am I not selecting this? Here we go. And then we said, interior pocket all the way to the bottom. Sometimes, sometimes not all the time. Happens more now because everyone's kinda like trying to stay within budget. The factory will not make this pocket all the way to the bottom of the bag. They will make it about ten centimeter, 12 centimeter, and cut it off like this. So this is actually something you have to communicate with the factory. If you don't tell them, they'll just do it however they want. Anything you want them to do. You didn't write on the tap pat, there is your fault. Anything you want them to do, you wrote down the 10-pack, they didn't do it. It's therefore, it is a very black and white world when it comes to mass manufacturing. So it's always better to overwrite things, over-explain things versus unexplained on the right thing, because you don't even understand how many emails I got. My junior designer sent something and they didn't explain it. Well, next thing I know we are on the 30 email chain trying to figure out what it is. Do you really want? And it is absolutely exhausting. Alright? So there you have it. This is pretty much how a full-size tech pack will look like. What's happening on these two pages. Very good question. These two pages or three pages are what we call tabloid size pages in the factory, depending on where they are located, for the most part, they can print letter size up to tabloid size. That's the largest most factories can print. But we drew everything so huge, clearly is not going to fit onto tabloid. So in this case, this is what we do. We select everything detects and a drawing altogether. We duplicate everything. We re-size everything down. And we put it just like that. You reassign everything. Oh, did you see how the texts disappeared? This actually is a really good glitch that we can talk about. Sometimes there's some error within your file most, most of the times within the symbol file. So the computer is not able to process it. It will automatically delete all your texts. So when something like this happen, unfortunately, you do have to go into your symbol to see which symbol is acting, acting up and delete that symbol and remake it, usually dead by then it should work. Let me see this one. No, It's not that one. So you didn't need to individually or is this one you see what happened. So why did it do that? I have no idea. Let me see if I can find a way to fix it. Okay. Okay. Let's not waste time to fix that one. Let's focus on these are the symbols for c. Now it duplicated the texts as well. In EU resize it. Let's see, let's say FirstPage, always, always. You put still too vague. So let's resize it more. Okay? So you two are here. Here. And then you realize, Oh, I can make it slightly bigger, you make it slightly bigger. Okay, you do this one here. Awesome. Then you do the last page, your interior view. Now, for the purpose of the video, I'm just going to break link to symbol. So this is also a very important trick. How do you get rid of the symbol is just breaking, literally break link to symbol. You right-click. It will showed up and it will come back to this original drawing where you see the bounding box with all the anchor and stuff like that. But there's something else I need to share with you. Let's use that one. Let's say you made this very small. And you see how when you right-click, you have both break link to symbol and reset transformation. You must reset this back to its original size dam break link to symbol. Why is that? Because if you don't, Let's go back. Let's say you make a super small, you break link to symbol without resetting of transformation. Sometimes what happen is it will change. It's not doing it now, but it will change the thickness of your lines and even the size of your stitch line. And then next thing you know, you're spending all that time trying to fix it back to your original drawing. So just don't do that. It's such a hassle. Not always, always, always. Reset, right-click, reset to transformation, then break link to symbol and you're safe. Alright, so for this one, bring it down. Make a small, at least match the size. There we go. It doesn't match the size. It looks about the same. And then make sure you also get your interior from which I didn't. Okay. There's a lot of rule on the papers. I'm going to enlarge it. Perfect. And I'm just gonna make this thicker. One maybe to say is 0.07. Perfect. And I can also make this a lot larger. There you go. There you have it. You have your full size capac done. Congratulations.