CAD/CAM in the footwear industry core technology for shoe sole mould in the footwear industry and develops towards specialization. Benefits of CAD/CAM in the mould manufacturing are: Commercial suppliers of CAD CAM for the footwear industry are listed on Shoeinfonet.com: London College of Fashion library web site lists some of the same No specialised open sources suppliers are listed, although Wikipedia lists several free general purpose products for 2D CAD/CAM and some for 3D. CAD/CAM in the footwear industry CAD/CAM in the footwear industry is the use of computers and graphics software for designing and grading of shoe upper patterns and, for manufacturing of cutting
CAD data exchange of describing geometry, both mathematically and structurally, there is always some loss of information when translating data from one CAD data format to another. One example is when the translation occurs between CAD systems using different geometric modeling kernels, in which the translation inconsistencies can lead to anomalies in the data. The intermediate file formats are also limited in what they can describe, and they can be interpreted differently by both the sending and receiving systems. It is, therefore, important when transferring data between systems to identify what needs to be translated. If only the 3D model is required for