Introducing NedGraphics 2026—redefining textile design with innovation, intelligence, and unmatched precision.
NedGraphics 2026 elevates the standard for textile design and production with a portfolio of enhancements that bring together AI-powered creativity, immersive 3D simulation, and seamless cloud connectivity. This release is crafted for the world’s most discerning designers and manufacturers—those who demand both artistry and technical mastery.
With the NedGraphics 2026.1 update, designers benefit from additional workflow improvements and visualization capabilities that further strengthen the 2026 release. This update introduces 3D Design for Illustrator® (3DDI), expanding 3D visualization with an extended asset library that allows textile designs to be evaluated directly on fashion garments.
The update also enhances Sketch & Fill with Automatic Artwork Scaling Across Sizes and extends the tool to Optitex O/26 users, enabling designers to apply artwork to garments and have graphics, logos, and visual elements automatically scale across the selected size range. This improvement eliminates manual resizing, preserves consistent branding, and supports accurate, production-ready visuals throughout the product development process.
Additional enhancements across NEDTag, Jacquard, Jacquard Connect, Tuft, and Dobby Advanced further refine how designs are organized, prepared, and validated for production. Improvements to color-based tagging, rotary-ready artwork preparation, loom connectivity, creel validation, and repeat visualization introduce greater accuracy and control across both design and manufacturing workflows.
From exclusive NEDKey-enabled features that unlock next-generation workflows, to advanced visualization tools that bring fabrics and floor coverings to life in breathtaking detail, every update has been designed to save time, simplify complexity, and raise the creative bar.
At NedGraphics, our commitment is to empower your creativity, boost productivity, and contribute to a sustainable future.
Happy designing!
The NedGraphics Team
NEW* in NedGraphics 2026.1
Within the NedGraphics 2026.1 update, designers gain access to 3DDI, a powerful 3D visualization capability that expands how textile design can be evaluated in realistic environments.
3DDI introduces an extended 3D asset library focused on fashion garments, allowing designers to visualize how textile patterns are applied across different silhouettes and styles.
Apparel designers are now enabled to move beyond flat artwork and evaluate their designs directly on garments, gaining a clearer understanding of how prints flow, scale, and align across the final product.
Validate print placement and repeat behavior, assess colorways and pattern sale, and present designs more effectively to internal teams and stakeholders. 3DDI transforms your static artwork into immersive visual experiences, allowing design teams to truly explore how patterns interact with garment structure and material context before production even begins
3DDI is accessible through NedGraphics for Adobe® workflows, allowing designers to move seamlessly from artwork creation to advanced 3D visualization within their existing design environment.
For more information about the 3DDI technology and visualization capabilities, visit the Optitex 3DDI page.
The NedGraphics 2026.1 update also introduces an important improvement to Sketch & Fill, extending its capabilities to Optitex O/26 users.
With Automatic Artwork Scaling Across Sizes, graphics, logos, and artwork placed on a base garment size scale proportionally across the full graded size range. This ensures that artwork maintains consistent proportions and accurate placement across every size in the collection.
With this update, artwork scales automatically, eliminating repetitive resizing while supporting consistent branding and more efficient preparation of production-ready visuals.
Sketch & Fill is a 2D garment sketching tool used to create technical garment illustrations, apply fabrics and patterns, and produce production-ready garment patterns within fashion CAD workflows.
Innovation continues at NedGraphics with our 2026 software updates, `bringing advanced simulation, AI-powered creativity, and simplified workflows to textile designers worldwide. This release introduces next-generation tools across Tuft, Jacquard, Dobby, Easy Coloring, and NedGraphics for Adobe®, all supported by flexible NEDKey licensing.
Many of these 2026 innovations—including AI-powered features and NEDTag administration—are available exclusively with NEDKey licensing. NEDKey provides secure cloud-based license management, and seamless access across all NedGraphics applications.
Streamline your design workflow with NEDTag, the smart tagging tool that automatically attaches searchable metadata to your design files. Simplify asset organization, accelerate search, and spend less time managing files and more time creating.
NEDTag is available for users of Premium Design Desktop, Premium Production Desktop, and NedGraphics for Adobe applications. It supports all relevant open formats and NedGraphics formats. Take control of your design library, automate metadata management, and find your designs faster with AI-powered tagging and NEDKey-enabled administration.
Simulations include colorway for each palette
Available across all NedGraphics Premium Design Desktop applications and Design for Adobe Photoshop
Enables fast, precise searches using Windows Explorer or Mac Finder
Tag entire design libraries in a single operation for maximum efficiency
NEDTag now also supports color-based tagging, allowing artwork to be categorized using either standard or custom color naming conventions. This enhancement improves how designers organize and retrieve assets based on color, ensuring consistency across teams and design libraries.
Support for DES files expands NEDTag’s automated keyword tagging to designs created within Production Portfolio Premium applications. This enhancement enables production-focused users to organize and retrieve assets more efficiently through searchable metadata.
NedGraphics is proud to introduce OPTINED Academy, our new online training portal designed to help customers unlock the full potential of their software. With OPTINED Academy, designers can access self-paced training modules tailored to the applications they use—making it easy to master new features or refresh existing knowledge anytime, anywhere.
For design managers, OPTINED Academy goes a step further with real-time oversight. Managers can register their teams, monitor individual progress, and ensure every designer is up to speed on the latest innovations.
Whether you’re exploring the new AI-powered tools, diving into 3D simulation, or streamlining production workflows, OPTINED Academy makes learning simple, accessible, and effective.
For more information or to register, contact us at eLearning@nedgraphics.com.
The NedGraphics 2026 Software Update introduces next-generation tools that harness AI, immersive 3D simulation, and seamless cloud integration to elevate your creativity, simplify workflows, and deliver unmatched precision across every stage of design and production.
(NEDKey Subscribers Only)
Generate colorways instantly with AI. Enter a text prompt, click Generate, and preview three new colorways of your design. Select the ones you want to keep or cycle through more until you find the perfect match. Overcome creative block and create theme-specific palettes faster than ever—without endless searching for references.
NEDRecolor has supported DSIM files from True Coloring since February of this year. With this release, Premium users can also publish TIFF files from Design Portfolios, enabling fast, online recolorations directly in a website or web app. This pilot integration delivers an effortless TIFF-to-web and DSIM-to-web workflow within our applications.
(NEDKey Subscribers Only)
NedGraphics for Adobe Plug-in for Photoshop introduces an AI-driven colorway generator. Designers can type a description, click Generate, and instantly preview three AI-created colorways of their artwork. Select favorites to add directly to your file, or generate more until you’re satisfied.
This feature helps designers break creative blocks, develop trend-specific colorways quickly, and reduce manual searching for inspiration. Built-in blending rules, thumbnail previews, and color restrictions ensure consistent, usable results.
Visualize tufted fabrics like never before. The new integrated 3D viewer, powered by U3M files, allows users to preview fabrics in full 3D, displayed as if unrolled from a roll. This feature delivers a true-to-life perspective of how a design will look on the floor, helping designers make better-informed decisions and accelerating approvals.
Tuft users can now connect their designs to ERP and PLM systems for faster, more accurate data exchange—reducing errors and simplifying production workflows
Tuft now includes an enhanced Manual Creel entry with real-time yarn validation and editable expanded patterns, providing immediate feedback on creel feasibility and reducing setup errors.
Simulation for cut pile and shear has been refined to reflect yarn-specific color behavior. Different yarn types now respond accurately based on pigment concentration rather than applying a uniform visual effect. Resulting in more realistic previews, improving material validation and reducing reliance on physical sampling.
The 3D Viewer for both Jacquard and Tuft now supports full repeat simulation, extending beyond single tile visualization. Designers can now view complete pattern continuity, making it easier to validate repeats and identify issues before production.
Jacquard Premium now includes a 3D fabric viewer powered by U3M files. Unlike flat simulations, this tool displays fabrics wrapped over a sphere, showcasing drape, texture, and material behavior from every angle. The result is a more realistic simulation, improving design confidence and approval accuracy.
Jacquard Connect now supports HTM-capable Grosse controllers, enabling direct transfer of WEA files to Grosse Jacquard systems. Reducing friction in the transfer process and ensures a more reliable connection between design output and loom execution.
All dobby machine conversions are now bundled into the Dobby software at no extra cost. Previously licensed separately, these conversions are now available by default—simplifying licensing, saving costs, and providing immediate access to all supported machine formats.
Dobby now supports defining multiple weft insertions for the same weft color yarn within Picanol DES loom conversions. This eliminates the need for post-editing in Pattern Editor and streamlines the weaving workflow.
Dobby Advanced introduces an enhanced Pegplan Sequence interface, allowing designers to define repetitions, manage cycle structures, and work with complex patterns more efficiently without manual duplication.
