@@CNCKitchen Yep and "wearing it" surely adds to the style :) @properprinting It really looked more painful than what I imagined from you telling about it. So thumbs up for not even bringing a backup pair along and just going for it. That's also adding to the style. "Wie mooi wil zijn, moet pijnlijden" as we say in Dutch.
I'm finishing 2024 with this idea of classy 3D printed shoes that I've been talking about for 2 years now. By setting this tight deadline, I forced myself to finally get this done. Far from being perfect, but I believe that this idea is worth exploring further. What do you think? Happy New Year everybody!
Walk what you made. Beter dan houten klompen haha. Stephan heeft in zn filmke van formnext laten zien hoe voeten gescant worden met een iphone en daarvan worden inlegzolen geprint. Ik kan me voorstellen dat met een combi van verschillende materialen via toolchanger en een semi open struktuur toplaag het eindresultaat stukken beter zou zijn. Maar , weer een super video !
@properprinting This was fantastic! I have two minor suggestions. First, see if you can get Barge contact-cement in the red and yellow can. It's nasty, but possibly not as nasty as the stuff you used. It is a contact cement, so bonds instantly to itself (read the instructions!) while remaining extremely flexible. It's phenomenal for shoe repair. I've re-attached soles to shoes multiple times with it over the decades. The other is to add a layer of soft fabric inside at the rear, like felt or something similar. This is because every shoe I've ever owned that had a grippy material behind the heel induced significant abrasion resulting in exactly what you showed when you peeled your sock down (I'm sorry you had to go through that, it's more painful than it looks).
What you could try next time is design and print the shoe "unfolded" and flat and then origami it into the shoe shape. This could allow you to design additional features and patterns much easier and might even be more comfortable.
@@properprinting I don't think of folding as being assembly. If it could be printed flat as one piece, in a shape that folds up into a shoe, that would actually look cool, I think. But something I thought about while watching the video is where you said you could turn it inside out to remove the supports, maybe you could print it inside out, so the supports are on what will be the outside of the finished shoe.
@@SuperDavidEFthat would make for some incredibly complex geometrical manipulation, since turning it inside out puts some areas under tension and others under compression. would still be cool though
I honestly LOVE the way these shoes look! I agree the other efforts to 3d print shoes look like slippers, moon boots or Crocs. I'd be proud to print a pair like these for the men in my life! Awesome design! I laughed with you the whole way 😅 Gotta commit to those blisters. Solid effort! I love that so many creators choose the VERY last minute to take on a huge difficult task just in time for the conventions! I love our community. Have a great week all! ✌️🫶
This is why you are one of my very favorite UA-cam creators; your honesty about your process and your willingness to show your failures just as prominently as your successes in such an open way. Thank you for all that you do!
I remember reading an article ages ago, probably on Hackaday, that pointed to a paper that did some material studies for multimaterial printed shoes. Might be interesting to have a look at, but the basic gist I recall was to use rigid materials where your body is squishy, and vice versa, to maximize comfort. I also remember an old US army study on how to best prevent blisters; it recommends wearing two pairs of 100% wool socks, a thin pair and then thicker ones over that. Wool breathes, so it's actually not that hot, and since the socks rub past each other you don't get that rubbing against your skin. I once met a drifter who'd always wear wooden clogs and he said the same thing.
For everyone else watching that want to try to make their own shoes, you don’t need a 3D scanner or foam blocks. This is how I did it in a similar way: Use soles from your shoes, draw a line down the middle and lines going out every cm. Using calipers measure the end points and intersections. To make it 3D prop a ruler above the soles and measure down over each point. A 3D sketch in fusion creates a point cloud closely matching your sole. In the fusion forms mode use the plane tool and select the points on the sketch to create the surface of the sole. Use the thicken tool and drag up and refine the top of the shoe. Delete a surface to make the volume a flat plane. Next use the thicken tool (~1mm) again to make the shoe a volume. Drag the bottom surface down to create the shape of the sole. The top and sole of the shoe should be different materials, you likely don’t have an IDEX so the bodies need to be split. Printing separate parts and gluing could work or, make the entire sole removable and that slides into the thin shell of the entire shoe. Use Ninjaflex 85A TPU or the top/shell, normal TPU is too stiff. Normal TPU around 13% infill for the sole with 4 layers where the foot rests. TPU is extremely tough so 2 perimeters is all that’s needed both on top and on the both coming in contact with the ground. Print the ninjaflex slow, I’ve had flawless prints from an unmodified ender 3, so most printers can handle it at slow speeds. My printer is an LNL Tenlog D3, IDEX. It has no issues printing fast with NinjaFlex, just have a direct drive printer with a short and direct filament path.
I think you are truly on to something with this. A few tweaks and some material choices and it will look amazing. Maybe look at using off the shelf in soles? I know that defeats part of the purpose, but for comfort. Also identify hot spots that cause the most pain and add cushioned infill there. Size up the outside of the shoe slightly if necessary. That said, dress shoes don't have much cushion and can still be comfortable, so there is probably a lot of optimization to be done yet.
Double socks is the move here! I have suffered like this in new dress shoes that were not broken in enough, and two pairs of dress socks helped eith the rubbing a ton, even after i developed blisters. I love the original scan shoes and what you came up with dude!
Those shoes look fantastic! Make some "breath" holes on the sides, and your shoes will be much more comfortable in terms of heat (and also will help them be more flexible). Great video, as always, showing the failures as proudly as the successes! This inspires me much more than any other makers do!
Honestly great for the 2 weeks you gave yourself to do it. I do see a future for 3d printed shoes in any style. Vending machines that scan your feet and automatically print the ideal shoe for you.
You know, I have watched many of your videos and seen the items you have challenged yourself with. All I have to say is, I wish I lived next door to you. I would come every day, sit and watch, and learn. You are a problem solver.
It's strangely comforting to see a realistic amount of time and effort go into design and modeling in a video. Fusion 360 is great, but modeling complex curvatures in it can be very difficult. Most times I have to resort to creating a custom tool to cut my object into the desired shape.
if you still want to use that wooden filament ... make it three parts. inflexibel filament works over the toes and the heel, flexibel in the middle. also for the soles, i think gyroid infill would be pretty good. so the infill works as a spring. or if you kan make the soles airtight you can have air pockets inside that acts as a cushion.
For Ninjaflex a Really smooth Nozzle like the Diamondback helps a lot. also if you make the insoles very thin and just do what everyone does with Dress shoes anyways, use Scholl Gel inserts in them for comfort.
Reminds me of the time I hot glued pieces from an old toothed fan belt into the slippery leather soles of my brand new expensive oxford shoes. It was winter and I needed to go to an event without slipping and falling... worked like a charm :)
You should try the tough PLA-HR that Biqu has been using to print basketballs. It has the durability that would be required to survive. I have no idea if they will be comfortable, but chances are you could use a different material for the insole.
Great video! I would suggest making the insole outer edges smaller to fit inside the shoe better. Also, this would be much easier in Blender. It's difficult to learn, but once you learn it, you can make anything. I have never had any problems with dimensional accuracy with Blender. Organic shapes are so much easier, and you can use the sculpt tools with a lot better efficiency.
That was amazing! The sheer dedication to the bit by not bringing a backup pair of shoes to the convention was astounding! Hopefully you learned enough with that to make version 2 super comfy and more durable!
It’s the perfect time to dive into Blender! It’s ideal for all the scanning, cleaning, and design work you’ve been doing-especially for creating and refining the shoes. You’d have everything in one powerful tool!
What a video, you've earned yourself a new sub. Thank you for a whole day walking in pain. Imagine v2 of maybe v2.1. This is going to be a game changer. Great work Jon!
Reccommend scuffing the shoe "fabric" and soraying them down with matte plasti-dip. Itll remove the glossy plasticy look while filling in the lines a little. And the matte is smooth and still has a little sheen. You can also do a semigloss or whatever finish and color you want. The main benefit is it's flexible and can peel off if you hate it.
Very nice looking shoes and a very well produced video . A tip for letting the tpu print release with ease from the heatplate is using IPA called "sprit" in Denmark , have been using this method for years ,it even get stuck PETG free from the heatplate
I love both hearing your british and Miranda's accent, but the exchange you shown us has been briefly hilarious, like "are they even speakin the same idiom?" :D
I struggled with super soft tpu on the X1C and then I made one important change: I put the tpu on a spool directly about the printer and fed into a super short piece of ptfe sticking out of the top of the hotend. Reducing all the drag all the pulling direction led to reliable printing of 83A tpu. I did have one other issue with a soft tpu I tried but after beating my head against a wall, it turned out the diameter of that tpu was inconsistent and got too thin for the extruder gears to grab onto.
I had a few spontaneous ideas that may or may not work (hopefully the former). One is to go slightly away from traditional shoes and add a "flap" to the back of the shoe with shoe ties on either side so you could more easily slide your feet in and just tie them up. Sort of like moving the tongue of the shoe to the heel. The other is more... funky and experimental. What if you printed the shoe (or only the main body) with a big nozzle (like 0.8mm or bigger) and thick layers out of varishore tpu foamed up quite a bit as a single wall with fuzzy skin. The idea being that you might get some breathability as long as the fuzzy skin causes small holes to form (single wall is mainly for this) whilst the thick layers and big nozzle (hopefully) provides some needed strength. Hope at least some of these helps out in the next revision. Keep up the great work and happy new year @properprinting .
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I was thinking about ways of making it more breathable by printing intentionally under extruded. Using a bigger nozzle is also an interesting idea. Happy new year!
@@properprinting not just a bigger nozzle but also enabling fuzzy skin with a single (but thick) perimeter with the idea being the fuzziness creates holes, and by using a bigger nozzle you (hopefully) could have bigger holes without compromising on the structure too much. That's the idea anyways, hope it actually works out.
This had an absolutely crazy amount of challenges to overcome in such a short timespan. What an awesome learning experience and outcome! I look forward to the all in one, Prusa XL printed version so I can make my own from your learnings haha. Loved the back and forth with you and Ivan too, hilarious! Oh and the anamorphic footage.. 🤤 Absolutely beautiful.
I just got a 3d scanner and 3d printed shoes are one of the first projects a plan to do. I'll probably start with slides and then work up to shoes. This looked like a pain. I've seen ways of working in the mesh environment in fusion for scans that looks like it might be easier than converting the scan to solid and then editing it.
Should have scanned a „Leisten“ instead. Those are used to wrap the leather around to shape the shoe. The are many many different types to fit your foot. Then print the pattern in flat and wrap it around, like traditionally done. My Grandpa was a Shoemaker so he still has all this stuff 😊
Cool that your grandpa was a shoemaker! I am intentionally steering away from traditional shoemaking because this results in less restrictions which can come in handy as things progress.
I love this project! I am most happy to see you using brick layers, I really want brick layers to catch on, it seems like that will be a huge evolution in 3d printing
looking good, and I'm really excited to see a version 2 as well! I understand manufacturers in the space are trying to make something eye-catching and experimental for word of mouth, but the lack of practical/classy 3d printed shoes is pretty annoying to me too. happy new year, and I'm looking forward to see what you cook up next, jón! re: winding loose filament onto spools, you may not need a solution for this any more, but for other folks in the comments who are looking: fiber artists (dyers, spinners, knitters, crocheters) have a thing for holding loose bundles of fiber already, called a yarn swift, and you might be able to find a cheap one locally and repurpose it for filament winding instead of having to homebrew one.
"the entrance is at the exact opposite side to where we are" ah yes, welcome to Frankfurt Messe I feel this part of the video so much, Frankfurt Messe is also the place where I got by far the most shoe breakdowns and the most milage in uncomfortable shoes
I don't know if someone has mentioned this or not yet but you can spray IPA under your TPU parts on the build plate and it will release it much easier then trying to pry it off.
Totally admire your sheer determination and dedication with this. Then again, it’s what I expect from your projects. Great job and the shoes look awesome!
varioushour sides of the shoes to make it more flexible while sliding in and add some kind of foam on back, also make holes in some way to make it breathing and round edges
something that might be interesting would be to make sheets of something semi-flexible like amphora or tpu and bend them with a heat gun/hair dryer, you could use a textured bed that way
@@properprinting plus it should be a lot easier to do, find a pattern for leather oxford shoes, then trace and extrude it, and you can use your parametric design to set the measurements. also you could try tricking the slicer into making a fabric-like pattern for breathing by reducing the flow rate to like 50-90% but increase the extrusion size by the inverse (so like 0.8 with 50% flow rate or 0.534 with 75% to get a regular 0.4mm extrusion on your 0.4mm nozzle.) which should create gaps in-between the extrusions (use 2 layer rectilinear, though you can do more fancy things, an interesting one imo is bottom layer hilbert curve or octagram spiral and either concentric or spiral for the top layer, with the plate being 2 layers tall, so 0.4mm)
For the play prints… if you just dip in boiling water it turns into somewhat of a floppy noodle. It will conform the shoe to your foot. Just an option for future fitting.
For the next iteration, maybe you could design them like the more comfortable mesh style shoes on the inside, and still keep a similar look to your "real" traditional-made shoes on the outside.
Ahh Frankfurt Messehalle… A few months ago we stood at the exact same closed gate and had to walk the exact same way to get to the right entrance. Great video btw :)
Finally a UA-camr that actually shows 3d prints will fail, even on expensive machines that are considered the very best. Feels like reality is finally back in the 3d printing space.
I like the idea of printing them in a sort of fabric texture. This in combination with TPU could make it a real compfi shoe. Maybe you should try the different hardness degrees of tpu. And if you print the with different filaments in just one print you may design them in a way that top and bottom intersect with each other. So you don't need to glue them together.
If in the USA, contact Belt Concepts America, they have commercial strength adhesives for bonding PVG/PVC and other thermoplastic elastomers, if in the EU, then contact a Continental reseller as they have some excellent adhesives for this sort of thing as well, possibly the Conti Secur.
On my XL I tend to release prints from the build plate using bio-ethanol or IPA. This works especially well with TPU. Just put a bit of ethanol around the edge of the part and let it sit for a minute or so. TPU still sticks very well to the build plate but I find it is much easier to remove the object from the build plate.
Perhaps consider scanning/measuring your feet, and making a custom digital last you can work from, as opposed to scanning imprints and such. Would love to be able to 3D print some TPU oxfords that are an exact fit for my feet. A few caliper measurements while standing, and we could all have custom fitting footwear soon.
Base of the shoe should have been printed at 45 degrees but horizontal rotation ( so the perimeters are along the length instead of width of shoe, that way the strongest plane is where the load is)
Love this! I was able to print Siraya Tech Flex TPU 85A Shore on my Creality K1 Max. The trick to insole, for me, was to use "height range modifier" in the slicer. Then layered gyroid and aligned rectilinear then back to gyroid. That made this squishy. The Max was big enough for a flat size 9US. Awesome project. Mine lasted two weeks.
The reason other printed shoes look the way they do is because those designs hide the thickness required to make a breathable shoe without obvious holes in them.
I always need a project that I want to get done, work my way through it and figure it out as I go. When I run into a specific issue I search for it on Google and UA-cam. This is how I learned most things. Just replicating some sort of practice, never worked for me.
That was a long, but interesting journey! I think a lot of us have pondered printing our own shoes. Thanks for having a go. The end result looked great - way more calssy than the others. We just need to find a way to make them comfortable.
I need manufacturers to get this technology for custom shoes, virtually on companies sell anything for my with and whent hey do the shoes are hideous and twice as expensive.
Honestly I love the effort, but I was wondering what benefit does a 3D printed stylish shoe bring, that a traditional 3D printed shoe doesn't? I like the challenge in sake of "because I can", but I seem to miss the practicality. Did you anticipate to be able to produce more comfortable shoes due to the individualized inner sole? Do you actually think this could see a practical use or is it just a gimmick to you? I love your content and I admire your skill! I hope you continue to grow and keep exploring new territories of 3D printing, even though the practicality of this project got me a little confused. Have a great year of 2025!
Awesome video again sir. but please please for gods sake start spraying finished tpu prints with isopropyl alcohol. they lift off the bed as easy as pie. spread that to every maker you meet too. its frustrating to see you all struggle so much ;)
Spray the bed before printing, or spray the print itself afterwards? If before, the IPA would just immediately evaporate. If after, how does IPA help since it would need to get between the print and the bed surface? Sorry, I'm not understanding your comment.
@@geuis before a print to make sure its clean and after the print is finished, just spray around the print on the build plate. the vapours make it easily lift away from the bed even when warm. it also works for petg and other filaments if you are in a rush to remove them.
love the shoe shape you chose! i agree that the currently available shoes aren't appealing because I like more classic/formal shapes. keep at it if you can!
Nice work bud, personally I would have used various types of TPU for this type of project from the get go, a 93 SHA for the outer of the lower and a 97 SHA for the infill and a 93 SHA for the upper and an ultra soft TPU that foams up with high heat for an insert, flexibility with TPU is easily controlled by the type of infill you use, I make heavy vibration mounts and various other items from TPU all the time, and the stuff is indestructible, so you don't need to worry about layer adhesion, so printing orientation does not matter, you can even print as PC inner spine inside things like the lower, and print TPU around it, I do things like this when adding threads, you can even insert a large nut and print over it, TPU is really forgiving.
Great video!!! I really enjoyed it. You mentioned you had to learn a new skill to 3D CAD model the shoes. Could you please share what method specifically you had to learn / where you learned the techniques?
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Uhh, I'm famous! I'm in a @properprinting video 37:02!
Great work, Jon!
Thanks Stefan! Your Formnext experience looked 100 times more comfy than mine😆
Stefan is finally getting that well-deserved recognition they earned! 🤣🤣
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@@properprinting It's not about the comfy-ness, it's always about the style 😛
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@@CNCKitchen Yep and "wearing it" surely adds to the style :)
@properprinting It really looked more painful than what I imagined from you telling about it. So thumbs up for not even bringing a backup pair along and just going for it. That's also adding to the style. "Wie mooi wil zijn, moet pijnlijden" as we say in Dutch.
You and Ivan together is a scary thing
Something big, red with a grill plate and conveyor belt. 😂
@@steffen1182 like the child of Optimus Prime and a George Forman grill 😂
I think it would be an awesome collaboration 😊
Definitely my 2 favorite UA-camrs for 3d printing.
And I'm totally here for it!
I'm finishing 2024 with this idea of classy 3D printed shoes that I've been talking about for 2 years now. By setting this tight deadline, I forced myself to finally get this done. Far from being perfect, but I believe that this idea is worth exploring further. What do you think?
Happy New Year everybody!
Walk what you made. Beter dan houten klompen haha.
Stephan heeft in zn filmke van formnext laten zien hoe voeten gescant worden met een iphone en daarvan worden inlegzolen geprint.
Ik kan me voorstellen dat met een combi van verschillende materialen via toolchanger en een semi open struktuur toplaag het eindresultaat stukken beter zou zijn.
Maar , weer een super video !
Maak een betere versie alsjeblieft! Dan hebben we een oneindige voorraad aan modieuze 3D geprinte schoenen!
@properprinting This was fantastic! I have two minor suggestions. First, see if you can get Barge contact-cement in the red and yellow can. It's nasty, but possibly not as nasty as the stuff you used. It is a contact cement, so bonds instantly to itself (read the instructions!) while remaining extremely flexible. It's phenomenal for shoe repair. I've re-attached soles to shoes multiple times with it over the decades. The other is to add a layer of soft fabric inside at the rear, like felt or something similar. This is because every shoe I've ever owned that had a grippy material behind the heel induced significant abrasion resulting in exactly what you showed when you peeled your sock down (I'm sorry you had to go through that, it's more painful than it looks).
Add some pressure sensors and accelerometers to make a smart shoe?
yes! go on! you will get there. with flexible wood and kinda breathable feet in it
Nothing like a tight deadline to help a project along! They came out great!
Thanks! Without this deadline I would've procrastinated this a lot more😅
ahhh the good ol reliability of a properly modified and improved creality printer, we've all been there, the coffee tastes better today
also, nothing like the feeling of people loving your creations, this is what its all about, killer video man
Reliability via discovering every failure mode haha, I’ve been down that road too
23:00 Finally, someone shows a Bamboo Lab printer failing at something!
And the project getting saved by a Creality
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What you could try next time is design and print the shoe "unfolded" and flat and then origami it into the shoe shape. This could allow you to design additional features and patterns much easier and might even be more comfortable.
I thought about that, but I like the possibility of printing it in one go and have them in the shape already without the need of assembling them.
@@properprinting I don't think of folding as being assembly. If it could be printed flat as one piece, in a shape that folds up into a shoe, that would actually look cool, I think. But something I thought about while watching the video is where you said you could turn it inside out to remove the supports, maybe you could print it inside out, so the supports are on what will be the outside of the finished shoe.
@@SuperDavidEFthat would make for some incredibly complex geometrical manipulation, since turning it inside out puts some areas under tension and others under compression. would still be cool though
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I honestly LOVE the way these shoes look! I agree the other efforts to 3d print shoes look like slippers, moon boots or Crocs. I'd be proud to print a pair like these for the men in my life! Awesome design! I laughed with you the whole way 😅 Gotta commit to those blisters. Solid effort! I love that so many creators choose the VERY last minute to take on a huge difficult task just in time for the conventions! I love our community. Have a great week all! ✌️🫶
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This is why you are one of my very favorite UA-cam creators; your honesty about your process and your willingness to show your failures just as prominently as your successes in such an open way. Thank you for all that you do!
That's commitment Jon! It was really fun seeing your progress that day. EPIC!
Thanks for helping me document this adventure, it was awesome!
I think you should convince him to add marbles in the soles for increase stability 😂
I remember reading an article ages ago, probably on Hackaday, that pointed to a paper that did some material studies for multimaterial printed shoes. Might be interesting to have a look at, but the basic gist I recall was to use rigid materials where your body is squishy, and vice versa, to maximize comfort. I also remember an old US army study on how to best prevent blisters; it recommends wearing two pairs of 100% wool socks, a thin pair and then thicker ones over that. Wool breathes, so it's actually not that hot, and since the socks rub past each other you don't get that rubbing against your skin. I once met a drifter who'd always wear wooden clogs and he said the same thing.
Feet swell out when standing and walking all day. I think before making your feet imprints next time, you should go for a long walk first.
Good point!
@@properprintingand maybe consider thicker socks
@@properprinting Maybe space for a more cushioning TPU innersole / inserts separate to the 3D printed sole and upper?
@@properprinting make the inserts out of cork (kurk in nl.) or use the same what they use to make fitted inserts ;)
Or make it 5% bigger
Best content on UA-cam! And your personality is outstanding 😂
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For everyone else watching that want to try to make their own shoes, you don’t need a 3D scanner or foam blocks. This is how I did it in a similar way:
Use soles from your shoes, draw a line down the middle and lines going out every cm. Using calipers measure the end points and intersections. To make it 3D prop a ruler above the soles and measure down over each point. A 3D sketch in fusion creates a point cloud closely matching your sole.
In the fusion forms mode use the plane tool and select the points on the sketch to create the surface of the sole. Use the thicken tool and drag up and refine the top of the shoe. Delete a surface to make the volume a flat plane. Next use the thicken tool (~1mm) again to make the shoe a volume. Drag the bottom surface down to create the shape of the sole.
The top and sole of the shoe should be different materials, you likely don’t have an IDEX so the bodies need to be split. Printing separate parts and gluing could work or, make the entire sole removable and that slides into the thin shell of the entire shoe.
Use Ninjaflex 85A TPU or the top/shell, normal TPU is too stiff. Normal TPU around 13% infill for the sole with 4 layers where the foot rests. TPU is extremely tough so 2 perimeters is all that’s needed both on top and on the both coming in contact with the ground. Print the ninjaflex slow, I’ve had flawless prints from an unmodified ender 3, so most printers can handle it at slow speeds. My printer is an LNL Tenlog D3, IDEX. It has no issues printing fast with NinjaFlex, just have a direct drive printer with a short and direct filament path.
I think you are truly on to something with this. A few tweaks and some material choices and it will look amazing. Maybe look at using off the shelf in soles? I know that defeats part of the purpose, but for comfort. Also identify hot spots that cause the most pain and add cushioned infill there. Size up the outside of the shoe slightly if necessary. That said, dress shoes don't have much cushion and can still be comfortable, so there is probably a lot of optimization to be done yet.
Double socks is the move here! I have suffered like this in new dress shoes that were not broken in enough, and two pairs of dress socks helped eith the rubbing a ton, even after i developed blisters. I love the original scan shoes and what you came up with dude!
Those shoes look fantastic! Make some "breath" holes on the sides, and your shoes will be much more comfortable in terms of heat (and also will help them be more flexible). Great video, as always, showing the failures as proudly as the successes! This inspires me much more than any other makers do!
Honestly great for the 2 weeks you gave yourself to do it. I do see a future for 3d printed shoes in any style. Vending machines that scan your feet and automatically print the ideal shoe for you.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n
You know, I have watched many of your videos and seen the items you have challenged yourself with. All I have to say is, I wish I lived next door to you. I would come every day, sit and watch, and learn. You are a problem solver.
It's strangely comforting to see a realistic amount of time and effort go into design and modeling in a video. Fusion 360 is great, but modeling complex curvatures in it can be very difficult. Most times I have to resort to creating a custom tool to cut my object into the desired shape.
if you still want to use that wooden filament ... make it three parts. inflexibel filament works over the toes and the heel, flexibel in the middle. also for the soles, i think gyroid infill would be pretty good. so the infill works as a spring. or if you kan make the soles airtight you can have air pockets inside that acts as a cushion.
Thanks for the suggestion! I talked to colorFabb and there are options ;)
For Ninjaflex a Really smooth Nozzle like the Diamondback helps a lot. also if you make the insoles very thin and just do what everyone does with Dress shoes anyways, use Scholl Gel inserts in them for comfort.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Reminds me of the time I hot glued pieces from an old toothed fan belt into the slippery leather soles of my brand new expensive oxford shoes. It was winter and I needed to go to an event without slipping and falling... worked like a charm :)
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
You should try the tough PLA-HR that Biqu has been using to print basketballs. It has the durability that would be required to survive. I have no idea if they will be comfortable, but chances are you could use a different material for the insole.
Great video! I would suggest making the insole outer edges smaller to fit inside the shoe better. Also, this would be much easier in Blender. It's difficult to learn, but once you learn it, you can make anything. I have never had any problems with dimensional accuracy with Blender. Organic shapes are so much easier, and you can use the sculpt tools with a lot better efficiency.
That was amazing! The sheer dedication to the bit by not bringing a backup pair of shoes to the convention was astounding! Hopefully you learned enough with that to make version 2 super comfy and more durable!
It’s the perfect time to dive into Blender! It’s ideal for all the scanning, cleaning, and design work you’ve been doing-especially for creating and refining the shoes. You’d have everything in one powerful tool!
I love Blender and I hope that I'll be able to use this one day! However, I do like the ability to combine both surface and parametric design.
The girl giving you a blister pad is such a hero ❤
What a video, you've earned yourself a new sub.
Thank you for a whole day walking in pain. Imagine v2 of maybe v2.1.
This is going to be a game changer.
Great work Jon!
Reccommend scuffing the shoe "fabric" and soraying them down with matte plasti-dip.
Itll remove the glossy plasticy look while filling in the lines a little. And the matte is smooth and still has a little sheen. You can also do a semigloss or whatever finish and color you want. The main benefit is it's flexible and can peel off if you hate it.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
Very nice looking shoes and a very well produced video .
A tip for letting the tpu print release with ease from
the heatplate is using IPA called "sprit" in Denmark ,
have been using this method for years ,it even get
stuck PETG free from the heatplate
Gawd I love your videos. The extra wide really works for you too.
I love both hearing your british and Miranda's accent, but the exchange you shown us has been briefly hilarious, like "are they even speakin the same idiom?" :D
I struggled with super soft tpu on the X1C and then I made one important change: I put the tpu on a spool directly about the printer and fed into a super short piece of ptfe sticking out of the top of the hotend. Reducing all the drag all the pulling direction led to reliable printing of 83A tpu. I did have one other issue with a soft tpu I tried but after beating my head against a wall, it turned out the diameter of that tpu was inconsistent and got too thin for the extruder gears to grab onto.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n.
I love the comedy factor here, especially at 14:15, that's top comedy material right there
I had a few spontaneous ideas that may or may not work (hopefully the former). One is to go slightly away from traditional shoes and add a "flap" to the back of the shoe with shoe ties on either side so you could more easily slide your feet in and just tie them up. Sort of like moving the tongue of the shoe to the heel. The other is more... funky and experimental. What if you printed the shoe (or only the main body) with a big nozzle (like 0.8mm or bigger) and thick layers out of varishore tpu foamed up quite a bit as a single wall with fuzzy skin. The idea being that you might get some breathability as long as the fuzzy skin causes small holes to form (single wall is mainly for this) whilst the thick layers and big nozzle (hopefully) provides some needed strength. Hope at least some of these helps out in the next revision. Keep up the great work and happy new year @properprinting .
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I was thinking about ways of making it more breathable by printing intentionally under extruded. Using a bigger nozzle is also an interesting idea. Happy new year!
@@properprinting not just a bigger nozzle but also enabling fuzzy skin with a single (but thick) perimeter with the idea being the fuzziness creates holes, and by using a bigger nozzle you (hopefully) could have bigger holes without compromising on the structure too much. That's the idea anyways, hope it actually works out.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n
This had an absolutely crazy amount of challenges to overcome in such a short timespan. What an awesome learning experience and outcome! I look forward to the all in one, Prusa XL printed version so I can make my own from your learnings haha. Loved the back and forth with you and Ivan too, hilarious!
Oh and the anamorphic footage.. 🤤 Absolutely beautiful.
Thanks Prash! I really appreciate this!
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
I just got a 3d scanner and 3d printed shoes are one of the first projects a plan to do. I'll probably start with slides and then work up to shoes. This looked like a pain. I've seen ways of working in the mesh environment in fusion for scans that looks like it might be easier than converting the scan to solid and then editing it.
Should have scanned a „Leisten“ instead. Those are used to wrap the leather around to shape the shoe. The are many many different types to fit your foot. Then print the pattern in flat and wrap it around, like traditionally done. My Grandpa was a Shoemaker so he still has all this stuff 😊
Cool that your grandpa was a shoemaker! I am intentionally steering away from traditional shoemaking because this results in less restrictions which can come in handy as things progress.
SUPERVET MAN! Wat een avontuur!
I really felt that CRACK at 14:10 😩
Thank you for taking us along, loved everything about it!
LOVED the cameos man!
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
I love this project! I am most happy to see you using brick layers, I really want brick layers to catch on, it seems like that will be a huge evolution in 3d printing
Consider integrating pump into the sole which will pump a but of outside air into the front of the shoe with every step.
You can litarally feel the pain at 14:09 through the screen. Awesome video!
Trade shows are really hard on your feet even in your most comfortable shoes. You are a brave man!
looking good, and I'm really excited to see a version 2 as well! I understand manufacturers in the space are trying to make something eye-catching and experimental for word of mouth, but the lack of practical/classy 3d printed shoes is pretty annoying to me too. happy new year, and I'm looking forward to see what you cook up next, jón!
re: winding loose filament onto spools, you may not need a solution for this any more, but for other folks in the comments who are looking: fiber artists (dyers, spinners, knitters, crocheters) have a thing for holding loose bundles of fiber already, called a yarn swift, and you might be able to find a cheap one locally and repurpose it for filament winding instead of having to homebrew one.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
@properprinting, nice video. You could also use polypropylene as one of the properties of the material is that when it flexes it does not fatique
That'd be an interesting material to try, thanks for the suggestion!
Lol Ivan trash talking in the Saturn while you’re waving at him 😅. That random gold played like an office episode haha. You guys work well together.
That's what she said
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
ow did you implement the bricklayer technique? witch slicer can do it? i can't find any implementation of the technique..
Stefan from CNC Kitchen shared a profile for Simplify3D that I used www.printables.com/model/769028-brick-layer-slicing
"the entrance is at the exact opposite side to where we are"
ah yes, welcome to Frankfurt Messe
I feel this part of the video so much, Frankfurt Messe is also the place where I got by far the most shoe breakdowns and the most milage in uncomfortable shoes
Whoa, that's dedication!
Thanks a lot for sharing you research on this subject!
2:28
Ooh, I know the feeling man.
All the best prototypes-turned-learning-experiences start that way!
I don't know if someone has mentioned this or not yet but you can spray IPA under your TPU parts on the build plate and it will release it much easier then trying to pry it off.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Congrats on completing your long term project. Its been great seeing all the step in your journey.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Totally admire your sheer determination and dedication with this. Then again, it’s what I expect from your projects. Great job and the shoes look awesome!
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n
varioushour sides of the shoes to make it more flexible while sliding in and add some kind of foam on back, also make holes in some way to make it breathing and round edges
Awesome episode, dude. Would love to see you perfect this when you don't have an artificially short deadline. Good luck, and HAPPY NEWYEARS!!!
Use thick wool socks, the kind you would wear with Alpine ski boots, to wick the moisture out when wearing your printed shoes.
Awesome video again Jón, love the “nuchtere Hollandse gevloek en gesteun” 😅 And love to see the story afterwards 👌🏼👌🏼
Thanks! It was nice meeting you at Formnext!
Love the journey and process. Even though you were miserable. Great effort! I'm looking forward to v2 👍
something that might be interesting would be to make sheets of something semi-flexible like amphora or tpu and bend them with a heat gun/hair dryer, you could use a textured bed that way
That's interesting indeed, especially when using a textured bed. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@properprinting plus it should be a lot easier to do, find a pattern for leather oxford shoes, then trace and extrude it, and you can use your parametric design to set the measurements.
also you could try tricking the slicer into making a fabric-like pattern for breathing by reducing the flow rate to like 50-90% but increase the extrusion size by the inverse (so like 0.8 with 50% flow rate or 0.534 with 75% to get a regular 0.4mm extrusion on your 0.4mm nozzle.) which should create gaps in-between the extrusions (use 2 layer rectilinear, though you can do more fancy things, an interesting one imo is bottom layer hilbert curve or octagram spiral and either concentric or spiral for the top layer, with the plate being 2 layers tall, so 0.4mm)
For the play prints… if you just dip in boiling water it turns into somewhat of a floppy noodle. It will conform the shoe to your foot. Just an option for future fitting.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
your a dedicated man. I have walked around a convention all day in horrible shoes and know how it feels. Keep up the good work.
Appreciate the work you put in your content! When you drop a video I know its going to be banger
For the next iteration, maybe you could design them like the more comfortable mesh style shoes on the inside, and still keep a similar look to your "real" traditional-made shoes on the outside.
Ahh Frankfurt Messehalle…
A few months ago we stood at the exact same closed gate and had to walk the exact same way to get to the right entrance.
Great video btw :)
Wonderful channel! Really like people exploring new concepts like these.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
Finally a UA-camr that actually shows 3d prints will fail, even on expensive machines that are considered the very best. Feels like reality is finally back in the 3d printing space.
I like the idea of printing them in a sort of fabric texture. This in combination with TPU could make it a real compfi shoe. Maybe you should try the different hardness degrees of tpu.
And if you print the with different filaments in just one print you may design them in a way that top and bottom intersect with each other. So you don't need to glue them together.
Props to you, great job and thank you for bringing us along. 😊
If in the USA, contact Belt Concepts America, they have commercial strength adhesives for bonding PVG/PVC and other thermoplastic elastomers, if in the EU, then contact a Continental reseller as they have some excellent adhesives for this sort of thing as well, possibly the Conti Secur.
Thanks for the suggestion. Next version will be without adhesives!
@@properprinting Probably a good idea, elimination is always best
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
fantastic print and great video. also i didn't expect ivan to be so sassy, very funny.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
On my XL I tend to release prints from the build plate using bio-ethanol or IPA. This works especially well with TPU. Just put a bit of ethanol around the edge of the part and let it sit for a minute or so. TPU still sticks very well to the build plate but I find it is much easier to remove the object from the build plate.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
This is a great idea! I really want to do this project myself! Love your content! Hope the feet have recovered!
Loving the progress! Thanks for taking one for the team. #3DFDM
Perhaps consider scanning/measuring your feet, and making a custom digital last you can work from, as opposed to scanning imprints and such.
Would love to be able to 3D print some TPU oxfords that are an exact fit for my feet. A few caliper measurements while standing, and we could all have custom fitting footwear soon.
Base of the shoe should have been printed at 45 degrees but horizontal rotation ( so the perimeters are along the length instead of width of shoe, that way the strongest plane is where the load is)
15:55 I literally just had to learn about this exact process today for one of my projects!
the dedication in this video is insane
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Love this! I was able to print Siraya Tech Flex TPU 85A Shore on my Creality K1 Max. The trick to insole, for me, was to use "height range modifier" in the slicer. Then layered gyroid and aligned rectilinear then back to gyroid. That made this squishy. The Max was big enough for a flat size 9US. Awesome project. Mine lasted two weeks.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
The reason other printed shoes look the way they do is because those designs hide the thickness required to make a breathable shoe without obvious holes in them.
Hey! What was your process for learning surface modeling? I've been meaning to get into it, but the resources I've tried haven't been very effective.
I always need a project that I want to get done, work my way through it and figure it out as I go. When I run into a specific issue I search for it on Google and UA-cam. This is how I learned most things. Just replicating some sort of practice, never worked for me.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Forms in fusion 360 is super powerful. Glad you went that way.
What a roller-coaster ride of a project. Well done dude!
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
You are a genius of perseverance and improvement, congratulations, good job...
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
That was a long, but interesting journey! I think a lot of us have pondered printing our own shoes. Thanks for having a go.
The end result looked great - way more calssy than the others. We just need to find a way to make them comfortable.
I need manufacturers to get this technology for custom shoes, virtually on companies sell anything for my with and whent hey do the shoes are hideous and twice as expensive.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n.
Honestly I love the effort, but I was wondering what benefit does a 3D printed stylish shoe bring, that a traditional 3D printed shoe doesn't? I like the challenge in sake of "because I can", but I seem to miss the practicality. Did you anticipate to be able to produce more comfortable shoes due to the individualized inner sole? Do you actually think this could see a practical use or is it just a gimmick to you?
I love your content and I admire your skill! I hope you continue to grow and keep exploring new territories of 3D printing, even though the practicality of this project got me a little confused. Have a great year of 2025!
3:41 love to see anamorphic footage, I think it's beautiful and should be more common
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐n
Awesome video again sir. but please please for gods sake start spraying finished tpu prints with isopropyl alcohol. they lift off the bed as easy as pie. spread that to every maker you meet too. its frustrating to see you all struggle so much ;)
Spray the bed before printing, or spray the print itself afterwards? If before, the IPA would just immediately evaporate. If after, how does IPA help since it would need to get between the print and the bed surface? Sorry, I'm not understanding your comment.
@@geuis before a print to make sure its clean and after the print is finished,
just spray around the print on the build plate. the vapours make it easily lift away from the bed even when warm. it also works for petg and other filaments if you are in a rush to remove them.
oh and helps to remove stubborn supports too ;)
love the shoe shape you chose! i agree that the currently available shoes aren't appealing because I like more classic/formal shapes. keep at it if you can!
Nice work bud, personally I would have used various types of TPU for this type of project from the get go, a 93 SHA for the outer of the lower and a 97 SHA for the infill and a 93 SHA for the upper and an ultra soft TPU that foams up with high heat for an insert, flexibility with TPU is easily controlled by the type of infill you use, I make heavy vibration mounts and various other items from TPU all the time, and the stuff is indestructible, so you don't need to worry about layer adhesion, so printing orientation does not matter, you can even print as PC inner spine inside things like the lower, and print TPU around it, I do things like this when adding threads, you can even insert a large nut and print over it, TPU is really forgiving.
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏
Jon, thanks for your sacrifice. Much was learned by all. Can’t wait for part 2 😉
𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖-𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.
Jón, I'm sorry about your feet, but WOW those shoes looked a-MAY-zing!
Thanks Bryan!
as widescreen user I would appreciate that video format.
Cool project, wish i could be so good in designing. Waiting video about v2 of these shoes
Great video!!! I really enjoyed it. You mentioned you had to learn a new skill to 3D CAD model the shoes. Could you please share what method specifically you had to learn / where you learned the techniques?
The amount of failed prints would be enough to break even the most seasoned 3D printing enthusiast. You pushed through and persevered. Nice job.
This almost broke me haha😅 Thanks!
Great video! Great to see you at the event and check out the shoes! Looking forward to see the next generation!
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