1. What are cards
Cards represent individual elements of a design that together comprise a tech pack. There are 4 types of cards you will be using to build tech packs that you will be adding to your Techpacker board.
Sketch cards: These hold information about the details or the artwork of your design like front/back views, construction diagrams, logos, patterns, prints, etc.
Material cards: These contain information about the different types of materials you will use in your design such as fabrics, trims, hardware, labels, packaging, etc.
Measurement cards: These indicate all of the individual points of measurements (POM's) of your design like chest, waist, underarm length, HPS length, etc.
Custom section cards: These cards add/manage other types of information that are not covered in the default section like -Fit or QA(quality assurance) information, print details, stitch details, quantity and cost, packaging, etc.
2. How to add cards
When you open a techpack, you will find the three sections that constitute your techpack board page: sketches, materials, and measurements.
To add cards you can:
- a) Drop images directly from your computer OR
- b) Click the + Add button
- c) Through a csv file
- d) Source cards from the library
2a. Drop images to create cards
You can bulk upload your design-related images in any of the 3 sections. Techpacker will create a card for each image and even match each card name with its original file name.
2b. Click the +Add button
You can also click the + Add sketch, + Add material or + Add measurement, and create cards inside their corresponding section.
2c. Through a csv file
You can also import your material or measurement section table from an excel file. The file has to be in a CSV format with all material or measurement details listed on it. This will save you time as you can already copy an existing table from your system onto your techpack
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2d. Source cards from the library
You can now source your cards directly from the library. Learn how to create a library here.
Currently this feature is introduced just for the material section.
Step 1: Click on this icon and select Add materials from library from the drop down.
Step 2: Select the library folder and then select the library from where you want to source the cards. You can also change the library later.
You can identify the selected library as shown in the image below.
Step 3: Click on + Select material from library to add cards to the section.
Step 4: Select the cards(s) to add them to the material section.
Once selected, all the selected cards will be visible in the section.
These cards can only be edited from the sourced library.
3. How to add card details
Each card hosts a set of information related to a particular detail of your design. As you create a new card or click inside a current one, you’ll see tabs lined up in the top section to keep all of your card data organized. Introduce the specific information in each tab to define the card.
If you do not see the tabs in the top section of the card, click on the icon to switch from Step View to Tab View.
4. How to move cards
You can move the cards within their own sections i.e., sketches, materials, and measurements respectively by using the icon for drag and drop as shown in the gif below. You can also similarly move the cards of a particular section to that library type only.