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Design your straps in the footstrap workshop

Design a strap in large view, see it on your board's real deck, save it in “My models” and apply it to every strap or just one.

Level 6 · Finish and render · Finish · 15 min

Before this: Dress the board and get a product render, Place the foil boxes, inserts and footstraps.

You’re going to design a footstrap in large view, save it as your own model and put it on your board’s straps. This is finish work: it only changes the render. The shape, the STL and the volume stay as they are.

You need an .s3dx with footstrap inserts and straps in Finish mode. If it doesn’t have them yet, follow the foil boxes, inserts and straps tutorial first.

1. Open the workshop

  1. Open your .s3dx. If you’re in the editor, leave it with E.
  2. Click the Footstrap workshop button in the right-hand bar.

If you weren’t in Finish mode, the workshop opens it for you. You get Footstrap workshop full screen: the strap in 3D in the middle and all its settings on the right.

Rotate the view with the mouse. Under the strap, a line gives you the Span between the feet and the length of the arc, in mm.

Common mistake: opening the workshop from the editor. Then there’s no board in Finish mode and the panel warns you: “Without a board open in Finish mode you can only design and save models.” Leave the editor and open it again.

2. Pick the style

Style has 12 styles: Classic (F1), Chevron arch, Chevron with strap, Moulded rubber, Velcro flap, Neoprene with patch, Flat mélange, Flat with holes, Vinyl with piping, V with hardware, Tall arch with panel and Hexagonal footplates (RAD).

  1. Pick one. Its starting values load.
  2. Pick the type: Single (one arch between two inserts) or V-shaped (three anchor points with a vertex).
  3. Tick All options if you also want to see the groups the style doesn’t use.

3. Adjust the strap

The panel groups the settings. Size is always there:

  • Strap width, Arch height and Thickness (padding).
  • Footplate: length, Footplate: width and Footplate: thickness. With (auto), the footplate matches the footprint of the strap’s foot.
  • Size (all), in %.

Depending on the style, more groups appear: Arch shape, Flap, Piping, Logo patch, Crossed strap, Texture, Footplates and Hardware.

In Colour and finish:

  1. Strap colour and Footplates colour.
  2. Finish: Matte, Satin or Gloss, plus the Gloss level.

Every field you change gets a ↺ to go back to the style value. Reset to style removes all your changes at once.

Result: the strap redraws as you move each slider, with its texture.

4. Change the arch shape with the mouse

In the Arch shape section you see the strap side-on with a point.

  1. Drag the point sideways to tilt the legs.
  2. Drag it up or down to change the arch height.

The point moves two settings: Arch height (in Size) and Vertical legs (in the Arch shape group, if it’s showing).

In Logo:

  1. Pick a logo from the gallery or click Choose image… for your own.
  2. Set the Logo size and, if it comes out upside down, tick Rotate the logo 180°.
  3. Pad image… puts another image on the footplates. Remove takes it off.

The logo goes on the patch if the style has one, otherwise on the flap, otherwise on the band.

Tip: the logo is applied to the board with the design, but it isn’t saved in My models. Each board keeps its own.

6. See the strap on your board

By default the preview sits on a Flat deck. There, Insert spacing only changes the preview.

To see it for real, pick one of your straps in Preview deck (“The board’s: …”). The strap sits on its real inserts and follows the deck’s curvature. The type, Single or V-shaped, switches to that strap’s.

Common mistake: moving Insert spacing to change where the strap goes. On the board, the strap always sits on its inserts. To move them, use the editor’s accessories panel.

7. Save it in My models

  1. In My models, type a Model name.
  2. Click Save model.

Your models are saved on this computer only and work for every board on it. Load brings one back; × deletes it. If you save with a name that already exists, the program asks whether you want to replace it.

The model keeps the style, the size, the parts and the colours. It doesn’t keep the logo.

8. Apply it to the board

  1. In Apply to, pick All straps or a single strap on the board.
  2. Click Apply to the board.

With All straps, the design rules them all: the straps lose any values of their own for those same settings. With a single strap, only that one changes.

Result: you get “Design applied to the board.”, the workshop closes and the FOOTSTRAPS section in Finish mode shows the new design. It’s saved to name.acabado.json, like the rest of the finish.

Cancel or Esc closes without touching the board. The models you saved stay.