What can I do with the Canfit™ FootWare™ Design software?

The Canfit™ FootWare™ Design system provides a skilled last designer with a means to dramatically increase productivity.


Create custom shoe lasts from a library of shoe lasts quickly and easily with this program. The software integrates a 3-dimensional image of the patient's foot, weight-bearing imprint information and clinical requirements of the footwear into a computerized design process.

Alternatively, use measurement and weight-bearing imprint information alone as your starting point to design a custom last. In either case, the design is fully controlled by you.

From Scan to Software:

Following the scan and after entering weight-bearing imprint data, the shoe maker has the option to let the system recommend a last with the best fit (graded or ungraded), or select a last from the library of existing lasts, or work directly on the scanned shape. The chosen last can then be further refined interactively to fit the foot. The resulting design data are transferred to the manufacturing centre where the designed shoe last is carved as a positive model from a block of polyethylene or wood.

Using Measurement Data Only (no scan):

For facilities where the majority of last design is currently done with measurements, imprints and a physical last library, the Canfit™ FootWare™ Design system can be used without a foot scanner. Using a digitizing tablet to trace the outlines of the weight-bearing foot imprints into the system and working with a computer-based library of lasts, the clinician can use this technology in a familiar and economical manner.

From Software to a Central Fabrication Site:

Customers using the design software can send their design files to a central fabrication facility for carving. See Canfit™ FootWare™ Central Fabrication for further information.

Advantages of the Canfit™ FootWare™ Design software

  • Fast - much faster than traditional casting techniques
  • Clean - no manual grinding work and no plaster
  • Cost - reduced storage of lasts - physical moulds are converted into a digital database.
  • Quality - consistently high quality shapes