Valentina (software)


Valentina is an open source parametric pattern drafting computer-aided design software tool for the garment industry.
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History

The program was named after mother of the founder Roman Telezhynskyi, a cutter by profession, who gave him the idea for the project.
The main idea of the seawing patterns making software package is in combining new technologies with old methods of designing of clothing patterns. The main feature is the work with parametric patterns and measurements tables.
The project was started in 2013 by Roman Telezhynskyi and Susan Spencer. On October 2013, Valentina 0.2.0, the first public release, was rolled out.
After release of Valentina 0.5.0 on 9 May 2017, Spencer forked Valentina into Seamly2D. Telezhynskyi decided to continue development of original project themself and on 1 October 2018 released the next version — Valentina 0.6.0, followed by few minor releases same year and ceased development since then.
In 2020-2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and countrywide lockdown, the development of project revamped and continued during Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022.
On 21 July 2025, Roman Telezhynskyi released Valentina 1.0.0, bringing UI redesign, additional file formats support and other changes. Since this release, binary builds provided via paid subscription, were old releases binary archived and available for free. Some Linux distributions continue to provide binary packages via official repositories, also users could compile binary from freely available sources itself.

Features

Valentina main window UI consists of main window with 3 workbenches:Draw — to draw pattern pieces;Detail — to combine pieces in details;Layout — to organize parts for printing.
Toolbars and tool widgets placed around main window and could be reorganized.
Pattern messages widget provides warnings and errors notifications.
Variables Table widget allows creating and managing measurements variables used in parametric drawing.
Additional workbenches available as separate windows:Label template editor — to create labels;Watermark editor — to create watermarks;Tape — to create measurements tables;Puzzle — to create puzzle patterns.

File formats

  • / .vlt .m
  • SVG font

Export

  • PLT
  • DXF AAMA/ASTM
  • CSV
  • SVG
  • PDF

Facts

Publications

  • Головніна, М.В.; Михайлець, В.М. Технологія крою та шиття. Київ: Техніка, 1998.
  • Болгов, В. Сучасний одяг та взуття від "А" до "Я" : довідник. Київ: Медіа центр "Bolgov", 2004.
  • Лазур, К.Р.; Олійник, Т.М. : словник. Львів : Новий Світ – 2000, 2012.
  • Сафонова, Г. Ф.. . Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 6 : 9-15.. "Comparison aided by fuzzy logic showed that CAD of clothes by anthropocentric methods of a product base design is the most suitable for small enterprises, particularly those engaged in custom tailoring."
  • Chapman, Amy. . Clothhabit.
  • Zalkind, V.. : monography. Kharkiv: Technology Center PC.
  • : навч. посіб- ник / О. В. Захаркевич, С. Г. Кулешова, О. М. Домбровська. – Хмельницький : ХНУ, 2016. – 311 с.
  • Kuhuk, T. V.; Ielina, T. V.. . Технології та дизайн. 3 : 1-10.. "Among special clothing CAD parametric modelling feature available in the next programs: Valentina, Закройщик, RedCafe, Optitex, Ассоль, etc. Actually, popularity rose for the Valentina – special parametric 2D CAD for sewing pattern design, built with Qt5 library. This is freely available software, that is an absolute pros for small enterprises. This CAD allows creating parametric drawings. I.e., its possible to create a drawing once and then, by changing markings in a separate file, get patterns for an item in different size. There is no need to change model itself. Program recreates it automatically."
  • Telezhynskyi, Roman. = English-Ukrainian sewing terminology. Smart pattern.
  • Telezhynskyi, Roman. = «Valentina» 0.7. Quick guide. Smart pattern.
  • Telezhynskyi, Roman. . Smart pattern.
  • Zasornova, Iryna; Zasornov, Alexander; Mazniev, Ievgen; Sarana, Oleksandr. . Вісник ХНУ. Технічні науки. 317 : 280-288... "The article analyzes proprietary systems, such as Lectra systems, Gerber Garment Technology, Investronika, Assyst GmbH, Wild Ginger Software and open PatternViewer, Valentina automated design systems for sewing production."
  • Розмірник. : брошура. Чтиво. URI: https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/viiskova_sprava/Tablytsi_rozmiriv_odnostroiu_ZSU_ta_deiaki_inshi/
  • : монографія / О.В. Захаркевич, Ю. В Кошевко, С.Г. Кулешова, Г.С. Швець. – Хмельницький : ХНУ, 2023.