Footwear Designing Tool

A method, comprising:

• obtaining, by a first computing device, a data file indicating a base knit footwear design;
• determining, by the first computing device, a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design,
• obtaining, by the first computing device, input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design;
• rendering, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design;
• and
• providing, by the first computing device, to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design,
• wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product.

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

• obtain a data file indicating a base knit footwear design;
• determine a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design,
• obtain input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design;
• render, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design;
• and
• providing to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design,
• wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product.

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to:
• obtain a data file indicating a base knit footwear design;
• determine a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design,
• obtain input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design;
• render, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design;
• and
• providing to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design,
• wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product.