Make your basic pattern Digital, save time and money Designers and Pattern makers: it is now possible to create your design without an expensive shoe program into basic patterns within minutes.
Through this system it is easy to keep your For designers: ask your Customer to last copies and basic patterns in your folders send to you the last copy or make the last and data base. You can scale your designs copy yourself when you have the knowledge into every shoe size or last copy. how to make it.
Orthopedic shoes: need mainly two
last copies, now you can make your first basic paper pattern in a few minutes and transform your second basic pattern in seconds. Keeps your data base updated for Customers concerning their designs and model.
For pattern makers: ask the designer the design.
The tools you need to manage in this system are the most easy ones and it will take you only a short time to learn them in case you don’t know them. Hans van der Elzen
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy
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Fig.1, Mark your last copy with the construction points; vamp length, instep, and heel height points. Setup measure lines in the left corner (5 cm x 5 cm) for scanning and control your last copy, be sure that the last copy is correct in height and length in your program. Fig.2, Scan your last copy.
Fig.3, insert the scanned last copy in Photoshop. File > Open > select your folder and insert your last copy. Use the move tool (red circle) for dragging the guide lines. Control on the ruler the height and length of your last copy, see yellow circle and arrows. (Fig.3)
Fig.4, with the last copy visible insert a new layer, sees yellow circles.
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.5, draw the help lines. Select the pen tool, the new layer, and the path type.
Path type
New layer
With the pen tool connect the construction points as you see on Fig.5. The line thickness we set to 3 points (select brush to set to 3 points).
Pen tool
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Fig.6, select a new layer and draw on this layer the back part and quarter top line. We draw this line with the pen tool. Pen tool
New layer
With the direct selection tool (A) we can change the shape of the lines. After we have setup these lines, press key B (=brush) and key Enter. (Brush thickness 3 points).
Direct selection tool (A).
(Fig.6) We have two different selection tools. By holding the selection tool box you will find one with a black arrow and one with a white arrow. Use the white arrow selection tool for changing your lines.
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Fig.7 shows the back part quarter and the quarter top lines. The yellow circles show the new layer the brush tool and the line thickness.
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Fig.8 select your shoe design what you want to drawn into your last copy. Select File > Open > choose your folder, Open > select > and press Open.
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.9 show the design in your Photoshop program when you have opened correctly.
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Fig.10 is the next step for dragging your design into your last copy. Select Window > Arrange > 2-up Vertical, see the yellow circles.
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Fig.11 drags your design with the move tool to your last document. The move tool you find on your tools menu, see yellow circle.
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Fig.12 views your design and last copy in only one document. Select Window > Arrange > Consolidate All to tabs, see yellow circles.
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.13 with the design in your last copy document, set now the Opacity from your design layer to 60%, see yellow circle. Opacity Make sure that you select your design layer to 60% and NOT your last copy layer.
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Move tool
Commit transform
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Fig.14 drag with the move tool the design as close as possible to the construction lines from the last copy, confirm the new position of the design by pressing the button of Commit transform. Pay attention to the Opacity of your design layer, when needed to see your last copy better decrease the Opacity. You can rotate your design when needed.
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Fig.15 selects the wrap tool. Select Edit > Transform > Wrap. See the yellow circles.
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Fig.16 with the wrap tool you are now able to push your design better into your last copy.
Commit transform
Press the Commit transform button when you are agree with the result. You can wrap more times when needed.
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.17 adds a new layer; select the pen tool and the path type for your document. See yellow circles.
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Fig.18 is setup for drawing the design model lines into your last copy. Disable the help line layer (not the back part and quarter top line layer) and you can see better the model lines of the design. Draw the model lines on your new layer. See yellow circles. (Fig.18)
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.19 you have drawn de design model lines into the last copy. When you disable the layer with your design you see the same as on this fig.19.
Line thickness Shape type layers Brush tool
The eyelets are drawn on the layers in shape type and the model lines on layers with path type.
Layer with design
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Fig.20 save your work in the first place as Ps file. Select File > Save as > select your folder to keep the document. See the yellow circles. When needed you can change the model lines and or keep the most of your work already done for your next design on the same last copy.
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Steps to fit your Design into a Basic last copy Fig.21 Save your document as Jpeg files for printing it out. Select Layer > Flatten Image > Save as >
See yellow circles.
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Fig.22 is the steps for the folder you want to use for saving your documents. Save as > select your folder in the dialogue box > select the type and save. Your document can be printed.
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(Fig.23) Fig.23 Select File > Print > and you find the dialogue box as you see on fig.23 See the yellow circles > Layout is landscape > Scale is100% > Print. We call this our Basic paper pattern. Depended on the montage of the shoe you can draw any system to this basic paper pattern model. You can do this already from the beginning or later. Sometimes we use the same model for two or more different systems.
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(Fig.24) Fig.24 In case you have some problems with wrapping the design for 100% into the last copy sees the above pictures. Illustration A is a flat last copy made from the last. The last has a rounded shape as we show on Illustration B. Check out the contours from both A and B where B is rounded. For this reason we see a small gap between the last copy and design (see Fig.25)
In case you need you can solve the small gap as well at the back part line.
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Fig.27 shows you how to close the small gap between the last copy and the design. Select this small gap and use again the wrap tool. This solves the gap between both as you can see on Fig.26.
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