Flatten Upper from Shoe Last Using Squish

Rhino
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Hi, attached is a shoe last I’d like to flatten to get the 2D upper pattern. I hope to achieve something like the image below.

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A few problems I’m having:

  • The only way I can get the back parts not to overlap is with deformation type free. This is promising, but the lack of control isn’t ideal.
  • The flattened boundaries are no longer smooth curves but rather wobbly
  • If I cutout the tongue area before squishing, I get some really odd results, like the last is being flattened on its side

Is squish the best command for this task? Does anyone know of a plugin that would work better for this? Any other suggestions at all?

Thanks,
SamShoeLastToFlatten.stl (355.1 KB)

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Hi Sam - Squish is not really designed to unwrap heavily curved objects all in one go - you may need to split it up into panels.

-Pascal

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Also, there are a couple of plugins that might help:


Of course, these are expensive solutions!

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Pascal, thanks for your response. I’m trying to just squish a small section now, just the back quarter. It works good except the very back bottom edge seems to fold in on itself when I really need closer to a 90 degree edge. Any suggestions on any settings that could achieve this?

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Vanessa, thank you for those suggestions, I will likely get in touch with them.

Thanks,
Sam

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Did you solved that?

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No, not yet. I tried cutting slits to see if that would allow it to spread, but didn’t work. I think it will have to be done in panels as Pascal said, and somehow put back together after flattening.

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Hello samlochner,

Create a new surface from the mesh, it can be flattened well without any problem.

Please re to the attached file.

Cheers,

J

ShoeLastToFlatten.3dm (531.0 KB)

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Thanks @dream21jun. What was your technique for creating the surface from the mesh?

Sam

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Created sections + NetworkSrf + Rebuild

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Okay, thanks @dream21jun

Sam