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VARIANT3D · LOOP™ — software that knits

Design it on Monday.Hold it by Friday.

LOOP takes designers from intent to product with browser-based knit software that handles the machine expertise for you.

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Built-in knit expertise.

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Designed in LOOP. Knitted directly from a LOOP-generated machine file.

  • Machine
    ready

    Every detail carries through to a file the machine can run. Nothing redrawn, nothing reinterpreted.

  • Faster development

    Reduce physical sampling and development cycles from months to weeks.

  • Reduced sampling

    Replace repeated physical sampling with validated digital twins.

  • More design exploration

    Explore significantly more concepts before committing to production.

The workflow

How it works

Every design automatically generates its knitting logic, diagnostics and manufacturable outputs. The knowledge that normally lives with a handful of knit engineers is inside the software, to take you from a file on your desktop to a physical sample in four steps.

Applications

Or start from an example

Every project below is a real LOOP file.

We serve
  • Footwear
  • Apparel
  • Accessories
  • Medical
  • Furniture
  • Transportation
  • Home decor
  • + any OBJ you upload

The cost of delay

The old way isn't free

Every knit program you run today carries a cost. Some of it lands on an invoice. Most of it never does.

01 — Easy to spot, easy to measure

The obvious costs

LOOP is one flat seat fee a month, and it is the same number every month. The old way arrives in lumps you can't schedule: yarn, shipping, minimum order quantities, factory time, development hours, designers, programmers — each one landing when a round demands it.

  • Traditional workflow
  • LOOP
024681012MONTHSCUMULATIVE COSTDesignersProgrammersYarn + MOQShippingDevelopment timeRe-sampleFactory timesame amount every monthTraditionalLOOP
One line you can put in a budget, one you can only react to. The jumps are what a physical round bills; LOOP replaces them with digital validation.Illustrative — the shape and timing, not audited amounts.

02 — Rarely measured by anyone

The hidden costs

Same start, same finish. One route runs straight and the other doubles back through every handoff, and none of those detours appear on an invoice.

Design intentValidate digitallyPhysical sampleLOOP — about one weekDesign intentWait two weeks on a sampleTech pack read four waysTranslate design to a knit programRe-knit — one parameter wrongPhysical sampleTraditional — about two months
Both routes end at the same physical sample. Route length is elapsed time, and the traditional line thickens as each stop adds spend the last one didn't remove — the detours are handoffs, not work.Illustrative — durations are typical, not measured.

03 — Felt by the business, owned by no department

The strategic costs

A week and two months are not the same decision. One lets you react while a trend is still a trend; the other means you find out whether you were right after everyone else already knows.

WINDOW OPEN · STILL A TRENDWINDOW CLOSED · TREND IS OVERYou on LOOP: week 1Everyone else: week 80246810WEEKS
Same two durations as above, measured against the thing that actually decides them. One arrival is inside the window with room to move; the other is a post-mortem.Illustrative — the window's width varies by category.

That's the difference between following a trend and setting one.

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Design it, see it, hold it.

Seats, Enterprise terms and what's included in each — all on the pricing page.

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Reported by teams working with VARIANT3D

  • 0% less development time
  • 0% lower sampling cost
  • 0% more iterations
  • 0% design integrity