Pattern Digitizer · Plugin for Rhino 8
Patterns that stay connected.
Create, digitize and edit 2D shoe patterns directly in Rhino 8 — from a scanned cardboard pattern or a blank sheet to the laser-ready part.
Coming soon
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Live
Mirrored halves and dependent lines update in real time.
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Trace
A scanned cardboard pattern becomes an editable digital pattern.
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DXF
Prepared for lasers and digital cutting tables.
The problem
In older CAD, every copy is dead.
Markers and notches are transferred by hand, one by one — and mistakes end up in the stitching room. In Pattern Digitizer, everything that belongs together stays together.
What it does
Draw once. Everything else follows.
Trace
Scan a handmade cardboard pattern: contours, corners, markers and notches are recognised and created as real, editable objects.
Live mirror and unfold
The mirrored copy stays connected to the original. Every change appears in the mirror instantly.
Copy a part with everything on it
Transfer a complete part with all markers, notches and stitches to another part or to the opposite side — mirrored if needed. Every copy stays editable.
Dependent lines
Move a base line and everything derived from it follows in real time. Delete it, and the dependants go too — the pattern stays consistent.
Variable seam allowances
Fixed or variable allowances that glide along a line, for example tapering from 8 mm to 4 mm.
Also in Pattern Digitizer
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Clean curves from a few points, easy to adjust later.
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Lines become parts with a contour; each part knows its allowances, folds and markers.
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The tools a pattern maker actually uses — matched on both parts that are sewn together later.
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Parts, lines and notches are taken over 1:1. Decades of pattern archives become usable again.
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Export prepared for the cutting equipment common in the industry.
By hand and with Pattern Digitizer
By hand
With Pattern Digitizer
Measure and redraw the cardboard pattern
Scan, trace, edit
Transfer every notch and marker to each copy
Copies carry all notches and markers
Mirror again after every change
Mirror and dependants follow live
Hours of redrawing per pattern
Edit instead of redraw
Made for
Orthopaedic shoemakers, pattern makers and designers, footwear factories with pattern archives, apparel and leather goods.
Specifications
- Platform
- Rhino 8
- Operating system
- Windows (Mac currently not supported)
- Interface language
- English
- Files in
- Scanned images · CRISPIN pattern files · DXF · Rhino .3dm
- Files out
- DXF · Rhino .3dm
- Licence
- Annual licence · 14-day trial licence
- Status
- Coming soon
Works well with
Questions
Frequent questions
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Yes. Pattern Digitizer imports legacy CRISPIN pattern files with parts, lines and notches. For other systems, ask us in the demo call.
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Patterns and nests are exported as DXF, prepared for the lasers and digital cutting tables common in the industry.
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Yes. The lines you draw always win over automatic ones. No workflow is forced on you.
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Not yet. Grading is planned but not part of the current version.
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Yes: Rhino 8 for Windows, licensed separately from McNeel. Mac is currently not supported.
See Pattern Digitizer on real patterns.
Free demo call in English, German, Italian or Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian. 14-day trial licence afterwards.
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