I need a shoes

I know a long long time ago Ed Eaton was modeling a shoe and he lofted profiles to make the upper part of the shoe. I don't know now if he would change his approach.....

KM

Wow, Ken... good memory. That was easily 6 years ago!

Patrick- The way I've modeled shoes depends on what I am using the model for.

I used to work in the Point of Purchase display industry so I needed to model shoes as place-holders in the assembly or to be in renderings of display ideas. If you only need a shoe model for visuals, there's a quick way to make a convincing shoe with a sweep-with-guides for the contoured part of the upper, then use some extrudes and cuts to add detail like the sole, the cutout for the foot, and the laces+stitching. To get a start on the sweep-with-guides you can download 'CS101-2-Four_types_of_loft' from the tutorial area of

- in the zip file you will find a part called 'Slide35_PUTTY BALL.SLDPRT'. Use the suppressed curves to make the back half the same way as the front half, then drag the guides around until it has approximately the shape you want for your shoe (I've used this to make pretty convincing running shoes, high tops, a boots, etc). Adding the other detail to make it look like a shoe is pretty trivial - just make an offset surface to the outside of the main blob and do extrudes up to it for the laces, etc.

I have had to make a more exact shoe when I was doing a product for 'grinding'. That takes a lot of measurement and can involve some hardcore modeling - if this is closer to your need, you might have to provide more detail to get useful advice.

I wish I could just email you my old shoe models won't be able to get to my old data for at least a month or so - sorry.

Good luck- Ed

Yeah the dumb things I remember. I even remember the part name "that damn shoe". Might have been darn....

KM

Thanks for your help Kmaren and Ed, I see it's a big business, I have time and I try to do my shoes with the tutorial of Ed ! Patrick

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Hello Ed,

I apologize for waiting so long to answer you back but I had to translate your mail which is not easy for me with the technicals terms, so I have had to ask some help.

I just began with the sole. I made basic form but I get the sole. The Powerpoint demo help me a lot.

I can wait for your old shoe models and it will be a great help for me.

Thank again for your help

Patrick