Shoe-Last, 3D-Printer
Shoe-last made by 3D-printer
Shoe-last made by 3D-printer
For shoe-design concepts a shoe-last is usually needed for sketching, pattern-making and other concept related work during designprocess. I wanted to learn how the 3D-printer works technically, and trained by printing a shoe-last.
I used a 3d-file that was saved to stl, then changed the original size in Blender. The model was divided in two parts(the machine can´t process too big sized models), plus the model has to be printed flat, in a balanced way.
First one "baby-size" shoe-last was printed to see if it worked correct. After I started by printing the front of the shoe-last, everything worked correct and the result was nice. It took minimum 5 hours to print the front, after the back part started to print. The machine started to behave bad, I changed plastic and did get alot of help from the FABLAB team. After alot of struggling I realised that it was to time consuming, and made the first shoe-last by hand.
It may be time consuming to use a 3D-printer for large scale models, but very helpfull if you want to learn the machine. 1 thing feeds an other.
Thanks to the team at Expo FABLAB-La Casemate Grenoble;
Kamel Melka Makhloufi
Pierre Jacquet
Jean-Michel Molenaar
I used a 3d-file that was saved to stl, then changed the original size in Blender. The model was divided in two parts(the machine can´t process too big sized models), plus the model has to be printed flat, in a balanced way.
First one "baby-size" shoe-last was printed to see if it worked correct. After I started by printing the front of the shoe-last, everything worked correct and the result was nice. It took minimum 5 hours to print the front, after the back part started to print. The machine started to behave bad, I changed plastic and did get alot of help from the FABLAB team. After alot of struggling I realised that it was to time consuming, and made the first shoe-last by hand.
It may be time consuming to use a 3D-printer for large scale models, but very helpfull if you want to learn the machine. 1 thing feeds an other.
Thanks to the team at Expo FABLAB-La Casemate Grenoble;
Kamel Melka Makhloufi
Pierre Jacquet
Jean-Michel Molenaar
