• Short course

Bags and hardware 3D design engineering

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Learn how to use Rhino 3D tools to prepare technically precise digital projects of metal and plastic accessories; integrate them into CLO 3D environment to make 3D design and digital twins of bags.

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A student modeling a 3D bag in CLO3D

What you’ll learn

Discover the future of bag design with cutting-edge 3D technology, enabling precise visualizations and seamless interactions.

This course focuses on three main topics: 3D tools for 3D bag design, generalist 3D tools that are used for 3D design and metal accessories design, material digitization and rendering. More specifically 3D bag design with CLO3D, 3D metal accessories focus with Rhino, materials and rendering.

A student modeling a zip puller in Rhinoceros 3D
A student modeling a zip puller in Rhinoceros 3D

However, CLO has an extraordinary feature that has made it the first choice of the biggest brands in leather goods as well: the software is able to simulate the physical behavior that materials have and therefore unlike most CAD, 3D designs produce product images of unparalleled realism.

For the design and modeling of metal accessories—buckles, clasps, zip pullers, rings, and chain hardware—we use Rhinoceros 3D. Unlike CLO3D, which excels at simulating soft materials and fabric behavior, Rhino is the natural choice for the exact geometries and tight tolerances that metal components demand. Students learn to construct hardware from scratch, working through the same modeling logic used by accessory manufacturers and tooling suppliers across the industry.

Rhino-modeled hardware can be brought into photorealistic scenes alongside CLO3D bag bodies, giving students the ability to present complete, fully detailed product visuals before a single physical prototype is made.