Self-service access means you book time on our Gerber equipment and complete the work yourself — digitising, editing patterns, creating graded size nests, generating markers and plotting. Full-service support means our team does the work for you: pattern digitising, size grading, marker making, plotting and production file preparation. Choose whichever suits your skills, timeline and budget.

Self-service sessions are best suited to people with some digital patternmaking experience. If you’re new to Gerber workflows, we offer training and industry support — including a Gerber workflow introduction, digital patternmaking guidance and technical support — to help you transition from manual to digital. Otherwise, our full-service option means no experience is needed at all.

Yes. Converting paper patterns into accurate digital files is one of our core services. You can digitise them yourself using our Gerber digitiser during a self-service session, or hand them to us and we’ll digitise them for you as part of our full-service support.

We run Gerber AccuMark 2D — the pattern design, development and grading software used by the world’s leading brands and apparel manufacturers — alongside a Gerber digitiser and a Gerber MP Plotter for precise, large-format pattern plotting.

You’ll receive production-ready, industry-standard digital files — the same formats trusted globally by fashion brands and apparel manufacturers. That means clean, consistent, factory-ready patterns and markers you can send straight to your maker, whether they’re local or offshore.

You do. Unlike some outsourced grading services, everything created at DPG remains your intellectual property — you retain full ownership of your patterns, graded nests, markers and production files.

Because we’re Perth-based, turnaround is significantly faster than outsourcing interstate or overseas — with local support if anything needs adjusting. Timeframes depend on the size and complexity of the job, so contact us or book online and we’ll confirm a turnaround for your project.

Yes. Students get special rates for hands-on access to the same Gerber tools used across the industry — ideal for folios and final collections. Emerging designers building their first collections can also access digitising, grading and plotting at accessible rates, with as much or as little support as needed.

We’re at 214 Lord Street, Perth. Sessions for both self-service access and full-service support can be booked through the Book Online page on our website.