Flatten · Plugin for Rhino 8
From the last to a true base pattern.
Flatten turns a 3D last into a measured 2D base pattern — built for orthopaedic, asymmetric lasts, where standard flattening fails.
3D model of a shoe last with live measurements
Coming soon
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Your lines
The seam and centre lines you draw on the last decide the result.
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1:1
Print the base pattern at full scale and check it on the last.
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Hours
not days, from the last to the base pattern.
The problem
On an orthopaedic last, the true centre line is curved.
Systems built for symmetric production lasts assume a straight front centre line. On a deformed last the pattern distorts — and the master measures everything again by hand.
What it does
Built for lasts that aren’t standard.
Flattening along your lines
The seam and centre lines you draw on the last define the flattening — not an automatic line in the wrong place.
Accuracy as numbers
Every result comes with length and area checks, not with “roughly”.
Separated the way the craft does it
Front and back, inside and outside can be handled separately.
Points and lines between 3D and 2D
Transfer points and lines from the last to the pattern and back.
1:1 print or straight on in Pattern Digitizer
Print the base pattern on paper and draw your model the usual way — or continue digitally in Pattern Digitizer.
By hand and with Flatten
By hand
With Flatten
Tape or foil over the last
Draw seam and centre lines on the 3D last
Peel off, flatten, trace
Flatten with length and area checks
Measure everything again
Print 1:1 or continue in Pattern Digitizer
Hours to a full day per last
Hours instead of days
Made for
Orthopaedic shoemakers, last makers, pattern makers and designers.
Specifications
- Platform
- Rhino 8
- Operating system
- Windows (Mac currently not supported)
- Interface language
- English
- Files in
- Rhino .3dm · last scans and meshes via Rhino
- Files out
- 1:1 print · DXF · direct handover to Pattern Digitizer
- Licence
- Annual licence · 14-day trial licence
- Status
- Coming soon
Works well with
Questions
Frequent questions
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Flatten reports length and area checks with every base pattern. Print it 1:1 and check it on the last yourself.
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Yes. The lines you draw always win over automatic ones. No workflow is forced on you.
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That is normal in orthopaedics, and the plugins are built for it: both sides of a pair are handled together, and parts move to the opposite side with their assignments.
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Yes: Rhino 8 for Windows, licensed separately from McNeel. Mac is currently not supported.
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Yes. After the demo call you can test the plugins for 14 days with a trial licence.
See Flatten on an orthopaedic last.
Free demo call in English, German, Italian or Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian. 14-day trial licence afterwards.
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