Updates

In this post I’ll show you how to achieve a shoe last with a foot shaped bottom in Shoe Last Maker. Most shoe lasts have a fairly flat bottom that is essentially an offset of the sole surface of the intended footwear. An insole fits into the shoe after construction […]

Some types of footwear, moccasins in particular, tend to be made on shoe lasts with a crease or edge along the top of the toe box. While it might not be immediately intuitive, this edge can actually be designed with all of the shoe last design templates currently available for […]

In this post, I’m going to highlight some tips that make editing in Shoe Last Maker easier to do. Tip 1: The first tip relates to a new feature added in V1.008 of Shoe Last Maker. And that is to limit the types of dimensions that are visible at any […]

By default, Shoe Last Maker runs with the viewport in shaded mode. This works fine. But if you want to make things much prettier, you can use Rhino’s built in rendering system, which happens to be very capable. Previously you would have had to do this via Rhino’s functionality directly. […]

A new template is available for Shoe Last Maker and can be found here: Manual Round Toe Parametric Shoe Last Template. Below is a quick video showing how to use this Shoe Last Maker template. This template is similar to the Round Toe Shoe Last Template except that there is […]

Shoe Last Maker can be used to develop shoe lasts for making custom and bespoke footwear. The first step in designing such lasts is to import a foot model. In this post I’ll explain how to do this, specifically for full 3D foot models. The video below covers the same […]

The following is an explanation on how to update Shoe Last Maker. The first step is to obtain the latest version of Shoe Last Maker in the form of an rhp plugin file for Rhinoceros 3D. You can do this by either purchasing a new version or, if your subscription […]