Customized shoe textures and shoe portions

摘要

A shoe with a three-dimensional (3-D) surface texture created using rapid manufacturing techniques is provided. A plurality of 3-D surface texture options is presented on a user interface; each of the options is associated with one of a plurality of 3-D surface textures to be applied to a portion of a shoe. A selection of a 3-D surface texture is received and is used in part to generate a design file. The design file is used to instruct a rapid manufacturing device to manufacture the portion of the shoe comprised of the 3-D surface texture using a rapid manufacturing technique.

主权项

1. A computerized method carried out by a computer running on a processor for creating a first three-dimensional (3-D) surface texture on at least a first shoe configuration using rapid manufacturing techniques, the method comprising:
presenting a plurality of 3-D surface texture options on a user interface, each of the plurality of 3-D surface texture options associated with one of a plurality of 3-D surface textures configured to be applied to the first shoe configuration; receiving a selection of a first 3-D surface texture option of the plurality of 3-D surface texture options, the first 3-D surface texture option associated with a first 3-D surface texture; presenting a plurality of shoe configuration options on the user interface, the plurality of shoe configuration options associated with a plurality of shoe configurations; receiving a selection of a first shoe configuration option of the plurality of shoe configuration options, the first shoe configuration option associated with the first shoe configuration; presenting the first shoe configuration with the first 3-D surface texture applied to at least a portion of the first shoe configuration on the user interface; generating an augmented design file based at least on a 3-D shoe design data file, the received selection of the first 3-D surface texture, and the received selection of the first shoe configuration; and using the augmented data file to instruct a rapid manufacturing device to manufacture the first shoe configuration comprised of the first 3-D surface texture using a rapid manufacturing technique.