Services: Shoe Last Development for Footwear Manufacturers
Need lasts perfectly tailored to your production needs? I offer professional shoe last development services for footwear manufacturers:
- Modification of standard models: I adapt lasts from my catalog to meet your specific requirements.
- Refinement of your lasts: I enhance scanned lasts or fit them to soles — simply provide a sole or its 3D scan in any convenient format.
- Custom design from scratch: I create unique lasts based on your sketches, photos of finished footwear, or rough drafts.
- Remote collaboration: If you’re located far away, you can scan soles or lasts yourself. I’ll provide detailed scanning recommendations and equipment suggestions.
- Convenient visualization: I create precise 3D visualizations of the last with the sole, accounting for material and insole thickness. If needed, I provide files for 3D printing, allowing you to evaluate and test the result before production begins.
- Convenient adjustments: To streamline the process, I provide last cross-sections, allowing you to make changes or specify adjustments at your discretion. This enables easy tweaking of key parameters like fullness, instep, or diagonal passage for a perfect fit. (See screenshots below for the collaboration process.)
Using advanced 3D applications, I handle everything from minor tweaks to bold, limitless designs. My experience at Unisole (sole production) and Zotti (last production) ensures precision and practicality for your manufacturing needs.
Turnaround time: Starting from 1 day, depending on project complexity and my current workload — we’ll discuss details individually.
See the process: A video showcasing the stages of last development will be available soon.
How to get started? Contact me, send your sketches, a 3D sole scan, or other materials, and I’ll create lasts tailored to your production!
Video Contents:
00:00 — Scanning the shoe last and sole
00:35 — Drawing lines to control fullness, rise, and oblique passage
01:12 — Conversion to special format + correction with control cell
01:55 — Precise correction by polygon vertices
02:05 — Applying Grasshopper (parametric modeling)
02:18 — Correction of toe slope and height
02:37 — Changing the heel height
02:45 — Real-time fullness and rise adjustment
03:47 — Changing the passage (throat)
04:07 — Changing the crest width
04:30 — Changing the crest height
04:47 — Changing the heel fullness
04:52 — Simultaneous change of toe break on last and sole
05:29 — Adding material thickness and insole
06:08 — Unique way to fit thick last into sole
06:37 — Preparing for milling and machining
00:35 — Drawing lines to control fullness, rise, and oblique passage
01:12 — Conversion to special format + correction with control cell
01:55 — Precise correction by polygon vertices
02:05 — Applying Grasshopper (parametric modeling)
02:18 — Correction of toe slope and height
02:37 — Changing the heel height
02:45 — Real-time fullness and rise adjustment
03:47 — Changing the passage (throat)
04:07 — Changing the crest width
04:30 — Changing the crest height
04:47 — Changing the heel fullness
04:52 — Simultaneous change of toe break on last and sole
05:29 — Adding material thickness and insole
06:08 — Unique way to fit thick last into sole
06:37 — Preparing for milling and machining