Using 3D Printing Technology To Make Your Own Sports Shoes

3D printing is playing an increasingly important role in people's lives.

Nail to chocolate, 3D printing has increasingly become a trend.

Now, this trend has spread to all major sectors.

Brand.

According to everyone's foot type customized sports shoes suitable for different sports types, it must be the ultimate ideal paradigm of sports shoes.

The emergence of 3D printing seems to provide a shortcut for the realization of this goal.

At present, there are many sports shoes including NewBalance, Adidas and Nike.

All began to involve in the field of 3D printing, and to achieve epoch-making product upgrading with high technology.

NewBalance, in collaboration with NervousSystem, a design studio in Marseilles, uses sole pressure data and unique foam structure to create a middle class of shoe soles that "geometrically adapt to different strength" and tailor shoes for all types of runners.

To find out how to run the sample of different runners and how to get there when walking, the studio collects plantar pressure data with Lawrence's NewBalanceSportsResearchLab.

Based on the test results of various types of runners, they invented a midsole material model suitable for two types of jogging people, namely, flat feet and heels.

They also focused on shoe sole materials, NervousSystem said, because the three-dimensional foam structure made of DuraForm FlexTPU elastomer powder has the characteristics of "relatively low density, high porosity, and lightweight and firm shoes", so it is the best version of all different structural types.

Finally, using 3D to print midsole products is to optimize the running experience of all types of athletes.

NewBalance, senior manager of innovation and engineering SeanMurphy, said, "...

We have invited runners and biomechanics experts to work together with leaders of plastics engineering, materials development and derivative design industry to promote future shoe design and production.

The 3D sneakers will be launched in Boston in April 2016 and then extended to stores around the world.

The company also said it would launch a customized version in 2017.

The new Futurecraft3D concept running shoes of Adidas, the German sports equipment giant, can customize the middle sole of 3D print according to individual needs and make it on the spot.

Through this new technology, Adidas hopes to achieve a new mode: consumers enter the store, run on the treadmill for a while, and when they shop, they can have a pair of 3D print customized running shoes.

This 3D concept is one of Adidas's "Futurecraft series" activities. In the next 6 months, Futurecraft will release more innovative design.

This new product, which is built in collaboration with the Belgian 3D printing service provider Materialise, has a precise groove, external contour, perfectly matched with the feet, and even accurate to every pressure point. It provides personalized support and cushioning system for every wearer and improves athletic performance.

Due to the existing data collection and plantar pressure distribution test technology, consumers can make shop in the future.

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EricLiedtke, executive director of Adidas and global brand director, said: "Futurecraft3D is just a prototype and an explanation of intentions. We combine technology and materials in a completely new way.

Such 3D printing medium materials can not only make good running shoes, but also promote real customization experience with performance parameters to meet the needs of any sports people.

Adidas creative director PaulGaudio: "Futurecraft is our sandbox, about how we challenge ourselves every day and explore the limits of technology.

Push forward production and material innovation and further progress.

By combining the manual quality with the unlimited potential of new production technology, Futurecraft has come back to our design method: fast, raw material and real.

Nike, which has a 62% share in the sports market, is certainly unwilling to fall behind the people. When Nike's COOEricSprunk participated in the GeekWire Summit Forum, it openly predicted a new distribution and production method of the brand: customers can make their own Sneakers by using 3D printing technology according to the design drawings provided by Nike at home or near the printing center.

The future described by Sprunk is that consumers choose a standard design through a website based Nike design studio, then modify their colors and sizes, or design a pair of shoes from scratch.

After the design is completed and the payment is made, the customer will get a one-time 3D printing drawing.

It only takes a few minutes for the customer to get a pair of brand new Nike sneakers.

However, there are still some obstacles between ideal and reality.

For example, 3D printing materials need to be upgraded one or two times.

For Nike, it is more important to find a new business mode to protect the company's intellectual property rights and prevent people from printing several times after purchasing drawings.

Once these problems are solved, Nike or other sports shoes brands have every reason to print sneakers at home.

Although Sprunk said he is confident that this new model is near, Nike officials remain silent.

When can we plan to come true, or whether they are investing or researching to speed up their realization?