Drape of Composite Structures Made of Textile and 3D Printed Geometries

Reviewer note:

Answer:

This article provided an analysis to consider the effect of 3D printing on the use of histogram of images for evaluating changes in textile fabrics, in addition to, proposing an algorithm that defines the basic principles in the printing of 3D shapes on fabric drapes based on 2D images. The literature review is broad. The methodology is sound. The analysis of data and discussions make sense. The manuscript only needs to be polished a bit before being published. In particular, the following comments came to this reviewer's mind.

We would like to thank the reviewer for his objectivity and accuracy in evaluating the materials presented in the article.

Line 32: Is the highlighted "I" needed here?

Corrected. The highlight is removed.

Line 37: Do we need space between "I" and "4.0".

Corrected. The space is removed.

Line 74: Are you referring to self-cleaning property when you mention "abhesion"? In that case, you may want to elaborate on this property.

Thank you for this note. The process is described in Pei et al. [8]. It is one of the variants to solve the problem with nonstick surfaces (fabrics in this case). This property of the fabric is not a problem in our work.

Lines 75, 89, 113, 131, and 254: A space is needed between the two sentences.

Corrected. It is a problem of different versions of Word software.

Line 101: Space is needed after [11].

Corrected. It is a problem of different versions of Word software.

Lines 171, 173, and 176: Space is needed after the numbers and dots.

Corrected. It is a problem of different versions of Word software.

Lines 202 and 320: Please move the table caption to the next page where the rest of the table is located.

Corrected according to the reviewer note.

Line 293: Please move Figure 6 in a way that the whole figure is located on one page.

Corrected according to the reviewer note.

Line 478: Do we need the underline belonging to the hyperlink?

Corrected. The underline is removed.

Reviewer note:

Answer:

The article is a relevant subject and written at a good level.

However, there are some points that need to be corrected, so I recommend a Minor revision of the article.

The title of the article completely corresponds to it. However, the article has a few points that need to be corrected:

We would like to thank the reviewer for his objectivity and accuracy in evaluating the materials presented in the article.

• Figure 1 does not carry any semantic load.

Thank you for this important note. The image histogram might be used for comparing two histograms from images that have different number of pixels. Also, the range of change of these pixels is important too. The process of obtaining image histogram of Sample number 5 (Hexagonal geometry arranged as “Y”) is presented.

This text is added as a description of the figure

• It is not clear from the text of the article which 3D printed geometry the authors are analyzing in Figures 7 and 8.

Thank you for this note. Figure 7 is only an example to show how the histogram of one drape looks like. In this case drapes with number 5 Hexagonal geometry arranged as “Y”. Figure 8 represents summarized data for all of the analyzed fabrics: with and without 3D printed geometries with their mean and standard deviation of number of pixels and range of V (HSV) component for every region of interest in the drape images.

This description is added in the text.

• In the article, there are graphs and text where the authors use comma separation. In addition, some graphs do not indicate axes (for example, Figure 10).

Corrected, according to the reviewer note: Figure 8 b); Table 4; Table 5.

The 3D variants of fabric drapes on Figure 10 are only for visualization. Axis tick labels are added

• All graphics should have the same style.

Corrected according to the reviewer note.

• There are many minor errors in the text of the article that should be corrected.

Corrected according to the reviewer note.

• Many elements of the article must be corrected according to the requirements of the journal.

Corrected according to the reviewer note.

• The authors do not analyze the obtained results (table 5). In particular, it is not clear why for geometric circles during 3D printing, different methods give an increase in the drape coefficient in one case and a decrease in the other.

Thank you for this important note. The fabric drape depends on many fabric characteristics as fiber density, direction, dimensions, fabric weight etc. It is hard to predict how the fabric will change, for example, after implementing 3D prints on it.

That’s why we only compare the measurements of two different devices (software tools) for measurement of fabric drape.