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Our support team from Red21 will assist you at all times when you are planning to acquire, finally acquire or use any of our Icad solutions.

About Icad

The solutions that drive footwear transformation into the world

Developed by Inescop, and distributed and supported by Red21, Icad’s product brand aims to lead you into the future, to a more sustainable, innovative and simply superior footwear industry.

Revolutionize your footwear creation processes

Our solutions are the industry's future. A more sustainable, efficient, innovative and simply superior way of creating and producing shoes.

Revolutionize your footwear creation processes

Shoe pattern making and production

Reality made by lines

An efficient, simplified and greener footwear technical design and production with Icad solutions tailored for shoe pattern experts and shoe production companies.

Icad Universe

Our footwear creation process

Know all of our solutions and how they combine together to put together the most advanced and seamless shoe creation process.

Icad Universe
Icad Workspace

A collaborative cloud platform to share and manage your team’s shoes, materials, lasts and outsoles models.

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Icad Workspace

A collaborative cloud platform to share and manage your team’s shoes, materials, lasts and outsoles models.

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Icad Cam

Plugin for Rhinoceros to complement Icad Insoles, to calculate trajectories for cutting production.

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Icad Feet

Software to capture, store and analyze foot measurement data from scans of the human foot.

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Icad Evolve
Icad Evolve

All you need to lead the footwear industry, and more

The first footwear software integrating seamlessly 2D and 3D features to create and produce patterns and models in the same space. With cutting-edge, intuitive and automated technology. Integrated with all the tools you need and connected to your team.

Icad footwear creation process

Explore the Icad universe

With more than 15 specialized footwear solutions that converge together to reinvent the way footwear is created and produced. From technical design, to real time "came to life" visualization, find how to drive innovation, efficiency and quality every step of the way.

The synergic work of our teams

Innovation and service embodied in Red21 and Inescop, to you

Icad was created and is backed up by Inescop, a renowned and respected Spanish research center that continues leading to major breakthroughs in technologies for the footwear industry that pass to us, to you.

This innovation is integrated to the service work of our Red 21 team, who will give you a well rounded support when interacting with Icad. This way, we guarantee you always have the latest innovations in the industry and the best partner service to attend to all of your needs.

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Discover all of our solutions and how they converge to assist you every step of the way.

ICAD FOR BUSINESS

Competitiveness, efficiency and innovation

Discover how Icad's specialized, cutting-edge solutions and customized service can ultimately revolutionize your company's footwear creation and production processes.

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ICAD FOR ACADEMIC CENTERS

Creating the next generation of footwear designers

Discover how Icad can help academic institutions to equip and shape the next generation of shoe designers and manufacturers.

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Red21, the distributor and support behind Icad

When you interact with Icad, the Red21 team will assist you. Red21 is the exclusive distributor and direct contact for Icad solutions, and works closely together with Inescop to ensure that we offer the best solutions on the market.

The Red21 team has extensive experience in implementing Icad solutions in footwear companies. They provide integral customer service, including technical advice, training, Helpdesk, and consulting for Icad. They will be your closest partners, guiding and assisting you to ensure you get the most out of our solutions, using your invaluable feedback to continuously improve them.
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Much more than patterns

Discover how extreme accuracy and optimization can be experimented while keeping an easier and simplified process, allowing technical shoe designers and manufactures to gain productivity. Truly much more than patterns.

Icad solutions around
the world

With presence and support in several countries, Icad is ready to help you wherever you are. Whether you are in North America, Europe, Asia or elsewhere, our global network will allow us to assist you all around the world, providing technical support, training and assistance to you all along the way.

Icad solutions around the world

Turn creativity into productivity with Icad Discovery

To technical design footwear in a fluid, precise and automated way. Draw on last, flatten parts, scale sizes, generate technical data sheets, estimate material consumption and costs, optimize cutting and much more.

Advanced and specialized software solution for the complete creation, modification and efficient production of patterns and technical footwear designs.
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Designing the shoe core with Icad Last

Born from the traditional art of last making, this intuitive and automated solution allows you to create and easily modify 3D last models with precision and efficiency that ensures optimal fit and performance.

Specialized software for shoe last designers, with advanced tools to model design, customize and manufacture shoe lasts projects.
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Other solutions

Icad Nest Production

Software designed for automatized piece placement in footwear production, optimizing material usage and reducing waste during the cutting process.

Join our footwear community

Share your passions and discover our latest trends and news in the industry.

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FAQs

A license for every team

 Whether you're a business looking to transform your production processes or an educational institution preparing the next generation of footwear professionals, Icad has the right license for you.

Business

Choose from our monthly or annual license subscriptions, and/or purchase the necessary hardware to equip your company

  • Create 3D shoe models and hyper realistic renders, sharing and managing them remotely with your team.
  • Design and edit easily custom last 3D models.
    Plugin for Rhinoceros to design outsoles.
    Cloud platform of 3D models for websites and e-commerce.
  • Helpdesk to get assistance at all moment.
  • Frequent and unlimited updates.
  • Required formation course for first license.
  • Refresher courses and others available

Education centers

We are committed to bring progress and future to the footwear industry, by making accessible our all-in-one solution, Icad Evolve Advanced, to education centers around the world so that they can keep doing what really matters: Shaping the next generation.

  • Integrate cutting-edge technologies into your shoe creation courses to provide an unparalleled learning experience and complement any footwear educational program. Icad Evolve Advanced offers end-to-end features, from pattern making to 3D modeling and rendering, to bring students' ideas from concept to reality.
  • Helpdesk to get assistance at all moment.
  • Frequent and unlimited updates.
  • Required formation course for first license.
  • Refresher courses and others available

Your services available

When your education center is ready to integrate Icad Evolve Advance in their education program, you will be contacted by our Red21 team, to assist you through the entire process, and give you unlimited access to their services. Learn more about this future services:

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Free annual licenses

Your education center gets gratuite licenses renewables every year for Icad Evolve in the subscription plan “Advance”, with usage for the teacher and one classroom.

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Training for your center professors

Professors at your education center will be trained by qualified instructors to become experts in Icad Evolve Advance, capable of teaching their students how to extract the full potential of this new Icad solution. Additionally, we offer annual courses on new features to ensure educators can always teach the latest advancements.

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Access to Icad’s Helpdesk

Your center and teachers will get unlimited access to the Icad’s Helpdesk to solve all the questions, needs and problems that may appear during their classes' daily workflow. If you are already a client, access now and create an incident ticket to get help in less than 48hrs.

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Support services and resources

Get consultancies to introduce your new solution into your educational programs or when executing specific projects, and explore all the help resources and more.

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Free and regular software updates

With your feedback and all users' feedback, your Icad Evolve software will have important and continuous upgrades so that it will be and do exactly what you and your students need, something unique in the market!

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Choose at least one or more Icad creation process you would like to see

Last design

Digitise foot

Start your shoe making process by digitising the foot as the basis for the last. It will be your blank canvas to create any shoe.

Functionalities

  • Lightweight technology, easy to transport and install.
  • Plug & play solution that connects via USB to any Windows computer.
  • Connected and compatible with other Icad solutions.
  • Fast and accurate system, which guarantees a faithful reconstruction of the foot.
  • Captures a large number of measurements automatically.
  • Easy positioning of the foot with the scanning process always visible.

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Digitise foot

Creation and personalisation of lasts:

Once the foot or last has been digitised, use digitisation to create and personalise your last, the heart of your footwear.

Functionalities

  • Lightweight technology, easy to transport and install.
  • Plug & play solution that connects via USB to any Windows computer.
  • Connected and compatible with other Icad solutions.
  • Fast and accurate system, which guarantees a faithful reconstruction of the foot.
  • Captures a large number of measurements automatically.
  • Easy positioning of the foot with the scanning process always visible.

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Creation and personalisation of lasts:

Shoe pattern making

Preparation of the last

Import and prepare your digitised last, and automatically divide the last into three surfaces and adjust and personalise every detail.

Functionalities

  • With cage, curve or zone deformation
  • Standard module for designing and modifying 3D lasts.
  • Compatibility with a wide range of formats (HOR, LST, FVR, STL, IGS, SEC, OBJ, etc.).
Preparation of the last

Technical flattening of the last

With the 3D last already imported and prepared, transform it into a precise 2D surface with our wizard for detailed flattening and perfect patterns.

Functionalities

  • Quick and easy flattening operations, even for moccasins.
  • Edits the front and rear profiles to achieve the perfect flattening of any last.
  • Strobel flattening and special flattening depending on the type of model (Pump Shoes).
  • Guided process for the creation of boot and shoe lasts.
Technical flattening of the last

Drawing on the last

Draw and adjust margins on your digital last with ease. Draw and smooth lines, create symmetries instantly, and use your sketches for an even more efficient workflow.

Functionalities

  • Automatically smoothed curved lines.
  • Creation of lines of constant or variable width.
  • Symmetrical lines dependent on a base line.
  • Insertion of predefined or custom shapes.
  • Import of reference images to create lines.
Drawing on the last

2D Pattern

Create the 2D pattern you need for your footwear model. Add margins, symmetries and rotations, adjust and save your designs instantly, and generate technical documents for production.

Functionalities

  • Automatic conversion of scanned or imported parts into digital parts.
  • Tools for creating and editing lines, texts, shapes.
  • Size scaling systems and a multitude of modifiers.
  • Advanced pattern-making tools (dependent parallels and dependent symmetry).
  • Automatic turning tool for moccasin pattern making.
  • Drawing tools necessary for the creation of the pattern (margins, symmetries, rotations) as well as layer management.
  • Technical sheets documenting the manufacturing process step by step, as well as calculating the cost of materials and labour.
2D Pattern

Size scaling

Calculate the different sizes of your patterns by digital scaling applying any scaling system according to your needs.

Functionalities

  • Standard scaling increments
  • Customisable scaling increments
  • Size grouping
  • Automatic strap locking
  • Special scaling for boots
Size scaling

Consumption, technical data sheets and cutting for manufacturing

Instantly calculate and optimise the material consumption of the model, adjusting lines and updating consumption without redoing flattening. Create customised data sheets and export patterns to make your footwear model a reality.

Functionalities

  • Export of dynamic data sheets to pdf
  • Export of complete material consumption information per group
  • Direct connection with Icad Nest Production
Consumption, technical data sheets and cutting for manufacturing

Send shoes directly to production

Send the patterns to be cut for manufacturing through our Icad Nest Production software or directly to any cutting machine on the market.

Functionalities

  • Cutting optimisation to reduce material waste
  • Generation of accurate cutting patterns for production

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Send shoes directly to production

Integrated 2D/3D environment

Convert 2D patterns to 3D or 3D models to 2D automatically and seamlessly, with synchronised changes in both environments.

Integrated 2D/3D environment

3D shoe modeling

3D Modeling

Define and create 3D parts instantly. Add realism by adjusting thickness, overlap, profiles, quilting and stitching.

Functionalities

  • Mouthpieces
  • English Mouthpiece
  • Fully customisable 3D stitching
  • Quilting and embossing
  • Automatic scallop creation
  • Simulation of piece overlapping
  • Editing of the profile, height and thickness of the piece
3D Modeling

Details and accessories

Add and adjust accessories such as laces, zips and logos to your 3D model. Easily design using reference images and adjust size, rotation and layout with precision.

Functionalities

  • Import of reference images to create accessories
  • Wizard for automatic lanyard creation and insertion
  • Automatic creation of zips
  • Automatic insertion of accessories on last
  • Basic tools for surface creation: extrusion, revolution, etc.
  • Import of files in IGES, STL, VRML format.
Details and accessories

Floor and sole design

Create and edit flats and heels with precision, reducing costs and gaining productivity by importing files and using 3D printers for rapid prototyping.

Functionalities

  • Floors and heels creation wizard
  • Import of files in STL, VRML, IGS format
  • Import of reference images for the creation of floors and heels
  • xport of floors and heels for production or 3D printing
Floor and sole design

Virtual dehorming

Digitally simulates de-forming to verify the functionality and aesthetics of the design. Adjust tongues, uppers, heels and toes, or add wrinkles for superior realism.

Virtual dehorming

Scanning of materials

It uses a material scanner to capture high-precision textures and colours. This process allows the creation of digital representations of the materials to be used in the footwear through their different texture maps.

Functionalities

  • High-precision scanning to capture and calculate the different texture maps that make up a PBR material
  • Creation of photorealistic textures for use in 3D models

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Scanning of materials

Materials and variants

Create photorealistic materials in any colour and texture. Generate or import scanned textures, which you can edit and save in a virtual library.

Functionalities

  • Creating materials from a scanned image
  • Creating new materials from presets
Materials and variants

Rendering

Create photorealistic images of footwear for presentations and catalogues. Get high quality renders and videos, adjust lighting and perspectives to achieve the perfect visual effect.

Functionalities

  • Predefined scenarios
  • Hyper-realistic image and video generation at the click of a button.
Rendering

Integrated 2D/3D environment

Remember, it is possible to convert 2D patterns to 3D or 3D models to 2D automatically and seamlessly, with synchronised changes in both environments at any time.

Integrated 2D/3D environment

Workspace

Sharing assets with the team

Facilitate online collaboration by sharing your 3D and 2D models and other assets (materials, accessories, lasts...) in the cloud. It allows the whole team to access and work together more efficiently, no matter if they are in different parts of the world.

Functionalities

  • Secure platform for online sharing and collaboration
  • Real-time access to designs and models for the whole team
  • Management of all assets (3D models, 2D patterns, materials, accessories, components and more)
  • Collection creation and management
  • Notification and attachment system
  • User and group control through permissions

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Sharing assets with the team

Create virtual catalogue/configurator on the web or eCommerce

Create a virtual catalogue or configurator on your website or eCommerce platform to display and personalise footwear, improving the customer experience and increasing sales.

Functionalities

  • Interactive tools for product personalisation
  • Integration with eCommerce platforms for a seamless shopping experience

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Create virtual catalogue/configurator on the web or eCommerce

Insoles design

Digitise sole of foot

It scans the sole of the foot to provide an accurate basis for insole design. This stage is essential to ensure a perfect fit and comfort in the final shoe.

Functionalities

  • Accurate scanning technology to capture the shape and contours of the sole of the foot
  • Automatic generation of digital data for use in insole design

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Digitise sole of foot

Store and manage scans for insoles

Save and organise scans for templates and client components, keeping a tidy archive that you can easily access and modify.

Functionalities

  • Secure and accessible storage system
  • Efficient organisation of scans for easy retrieval and use
  • Automatically queries standard measurements of scans

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Store and manage scans for insoles

Create and edit the insole

Design and modify the footwear insole according to project specifications. Ensure that the insole provides comfort and a perfect fit for the end user.

Functionalities

  • Digital design from a digital mesh of the foot or sole, or from measurement data.
  • Advanced design tools to customise templates
  • Editing capabilities for fine-tuning and design enhancements
  • Export to machining or 3D printing

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Create and edit the insole

Insole cutting parts

Use Icad Cam to import templates created with Icad Insoles and use Icad Nest Production to optimise material usage and prepare for production.

Functionalities

  • Easy import of final template and sole files for machining

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Insole cutting parts