Shoe Industry Takes Advantage Of 3D Printing Technology To Play New Tricks.

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Announced a new partnership with HP to deepen cooperation in 3D printing business, and 3D printing is helping.

The potential to build competitive advantage is attracting the attention of the industry again.

The space of 3D printing in shoe industry includes speeding up the optimization iteration of product line, bringing practicality to the customized platform of shoes industry and integrating mobile health technology.

In this sense, the fierce competition in the shoe market will be on the rise again and again, with the power of 3D printing technology to play a new pattern. This time, together with netizens, we will review the 3D printing of shoe industry.

Towards commercialization

In the past period of time, Nike: began to promote the "socks" design of supporting and fitting of Nike.

Avant-garde's shape and indeed better performance attract many buyers for Nike.

The design of stockings with support and adherence is the field of potential for 3D printing technology.

As Nike announces cooperation with HP, Nike will use the 3D printing solution provided by HP to speed up mass production of its sports equipment using 3D technology.

Perhaps soon after we bought Nike shoes in stores, we bought products containing 3D printing technology before we knew it.

New Balance:, as far as the 3D printing shoe market is concerned, it is probably not possible for consumers to take out tens of thousands of dollars to buy a pair of nylon shoes.

However, 3D printing has indeed been commercialized and has potential to change the rules of the game.

It is also necessary to study the difference between the pressure on the sole and the pressure on the floor. What is the difference between the pressure on the sole and the pressure on the floor? What is the pressure change on the sole of the body? Is it possible to achieve the ideal pressure cushioning effect by increasing the density of sole tissue in the pressure tight sole? The Nervous Systems company from MIT has generated a lot of data to generate the algorithm software, thus helping New Balance realize the unique and completely customized shoes for the customer, not only for the foot type but also for the shoe owner's movement mode.

New Balance's 3D printing shoes have been sold abroad, and the 3D printing technology used in the bottom of their shoes is SLS selective laser sintering technology.

Integrated mobile health

SOLS's 3D printing shoes, called Adaptiv, are customizable and can be made of various materials. When the 3D shoe is printed, a motion sensor is implanted. The 3D area of the 3D area is installed in the ankle area. It can monitor the movement of the wearer and change the pressure distribution inside the shoe to support the feet, ankles and other parts. It can also inflate and deflate the support.

What is even more impressive is that the shoes are equipped with color sensing cameras and LED lights, which can change the colors according to the clothes of the wearer.

For athletes, this kind of shoes can help their physical activities better and improve their athletic performance through their excellent adaptability.

Among them, EOS is used to increase production equipment.

Algorithm and customization platform

Matthew Flail is the co founder of FOOTPRINT 3D. Through 3D scanning, shoe development and 3D printing, FOOTPRINT has developed a sophisticated shoe development system.

FOOTPRINT 3D has three main objectives: first, to reduce material waste in manufacturing and eliminate expensive tooling and tooling; secondly, to customize tailored to the exact shape, size and support needs of the user's foot; finally, they hope to reduce or eliminate the waste of modern manufacturing mode.

The software system developed by FOOTPRINT can accurately control the size, shape and location of the cell unit in the design of each shoe's middle bottom, and can produce different densities of the midsole with special support needs, and customize shoes for each pair of feet based on scanning results and algorithm models.

The middle sole printing technology is 3D Systems DuraForm Flex 3D nylon powder SLS selective laser sintering technology.

The shoe upper material is a kind of wire which is heated and contracted with Japan island fine company. After the molding is integrated, it will be put into the foot mold and fumigated, so that the wire will shrink and the vamp will perfectly fit the foot.

Into the real future

Designer brand: similar to jewelry industry, the trend of consumption is light and extravagant. The design of the designer ZoeDai represents the trend: designers no longer hide behind the brand, but show these personalized design products directly to consumers through the Internet platform mode, and conclude pactions.

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Collapsible shoes:

Presumably the shoes were standing too far in the suitcase, and Recreus was also developing 3D print shoes that could be folded in his pocket.

Seeing this kind of scene, I always expressed hope for the small weave of sudden rain.

Such shoes can usually put a pair in their pockets. In case of rain, there will be no need to worry about the newly bought shoes.

And don't worry about it, you can print a pair of shoes with Makerbot.

Not bad Amiba: London designer Shams Aden and researchers based on the principle of regenerative synthetic cell microparticles, developed a kind of biological running shoes "Amiba" that can be repaired overnight by using 3D printing technology.

This kind of biological running shoes is a perfect way to support and protect feet when it is dressed like a skin.

It can also react to pressure, movement, light or heat. When it runs, its specific area will expand, providing extra cushioning to make the wearer more comfortable, and it also has an automatic repair function.

Print shoes yourself:

3D Systems's Cubify 3D printing platform has launched the online download shoes free CAD design service, so that users can print shoes at home in the evening. However, although it sounds good, the market reaction is not positive, plus other main reasons, 3D Systems closed the Cubify 3D printing platform in 2016, and this mode also temporarily left the arena.