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More than pattern engineering: create, adjust, grade and generate full technical packs for each model with absolute precision

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Automated and optimized cutting. Organize every pattern piece and send it to production with maximum efficiency

3D shoe last digital design and manufacturing. Your tool for creating, scaling, and customizing lasts

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3D design without limits: Project your ideas freely in a powerful, seamless, and precise environment

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3D shoe last digital design and manufacturing. Your tool for creating, scaling, and customizing lasts

Explore Icad Materials Scan

Design soles and bottom parts in 3D with precision and freedom. Your solution for developing any lower component

Explore Icad Outsoles

Rapid and precise digitization of real materials. Capture high-definition textures and transform them into assets ready for your 3D design

Your control and collaboration hub: manage, organize, and share all your resources in a connected space, accessible from anywhere

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Interactive visualization of 3D models in the cloud. Showcase, edit, and connect your designs to web platforms and e-commerce solutions

Explore Icad Colorways

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2D pattern engineering and 3D modeling connected in a single, integrated system. Your command center for creating footwear from start to finish

Explore Icad Evolve

3D shoe last digital design and manufacturing. Your tool for creating, scaling, and customizing lasts

Explore Icad Materials Scan

Design soles and bottom parts in 3D with precision and freedom. Your solution for developing any lower component

Explore Icad Outsoles

Rapid and precise digitization of real materials. Capture high-definition textures and transform them into assets ready for your 3D design

Your control and collaboration hub: manage, organize, and share all your resources in a connected space, accessible from anywhere

Explore Icad Workspace

Interactive visualization of 3D models in the cloud. Showcase, edit, and connect your designs to web platforms and e-commerce solutions

Explore Icad Colorways

3D design of fully customized orthopedic insoles, ready for manufacturing. Your technical solution for transforming measurements into comfort and functional precision.

Explore Icad Insoles

Design soles and bottom parts in 3D with precision and freedom. Your solution for developing any lower component

Explore Icad Outsoles

3D digitization of the foot sole with direct integration into insole design. Millimeter-level precision from the very first layer

Explore Icad Insoles Scan

Generation of milling paths for CNC machines. Everything ready for milling.

Explore Icad Cam

Scanner for full 3D digitization of the human foot with automatic measurement calculation. Real precision in every scan, ready for customization and analysis.

Explore Icad Foot Scan

3D shoe last digital design and manufacturing. Your tool for creating, scaling, and customizing lasts

Software to capture, store and analyze foot measurement data from scans of the human foot. Turn every measurement into a solid foundation for personalized design

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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.

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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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ICAD FOR BUSINESS

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

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.

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.

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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FAQs

Why Icad is the choice

Exploring the footwear universe

We aim to push the boundaries of what's possible in the footwear industry. Our commitment to innovation drives us to explore new ideas, technologies, and methodologies to help you stay at the forefront of the field.

Why Icad is the choice

As people, to people

We are footwear experts, therefore, we understand the needs, goals and challenges of our customers. Everyday we make every effort to listen and tailor our solutions and services to deliver maximum value and impact.

Why Icad is the choice

Strive to change

The future is calling, and we're ready to answer. We want to be catalysts for change in the footwear industry, bringing transformation and innovation close to enterprises and professionals.

Why Icad is the choice

Sharing with our customers

We believe in the power of collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity to drive meaningful change. By making our resources and expertise accessible to our customers, we aim to bring progress to us all.

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

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Accompanying renowned footwear institutes around the world

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:

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.

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.

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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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.).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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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Integrated 2D/3D environment

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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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.

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