Gerber Technology to Support AxF, X-Rite’s Appearance Exchange Format
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — At ideation 2017 in Los Angeles, X-Rite Incorporated and its subsidiary Pantone, announced that Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM and AccuMark will natively support the Appearance Exchange Format in 2018.
Developed by X-Rite, AxF is a vendor-neutral format that enables the communication of all aspects of a physical material’s appearance—color, texture, gloss, refraction, transparency, special effects (sparkles) and reflection properties—in a single, editable file to improve design virtualization. Using AxF, fashion, apparel, and retail companies will be able to incorporate physically correct, virtual materials in YuniquePLM and AccuMark to create photorealistic 3D images of garment samples in order to accelerate the design, creation and merchandising process.