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Adidas Gazelle Femme
« on: Aug 22nd, 2018, 10:58pm » |
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Adidas unveiled their latest 3D-printed shoe last night, the Futurecraft 4D. The shoe is a huge improvement on their last 3D-printed Nike Air Max Thea Dames runners, which were more of a concept than an actual product.
The new version is better suited for mass production – Adidas plans on selling 5,000 pairs this upcoming fall, which will scale up to more than 100,000 pairs by the end of 2018. While the company hasn’t announced the price, expect the first run to still be priced as a limited edition shoe. The first 3D runners retailed for $333, but sold secondhand for many times that.
To create the shoes Adidas has teamed up with Carbon, a Silicon Valley-based 3D-printing company we’ve covered before. Adidas Stan Smith Donna The startup, which has raised over $200M from Sequoia Capital, GV, Yuri Milner and others, is focused on making 3D printing a viable manufacturing method for large-scale production across industries.
The key to turning 3D-printing into more than a novelty used only for prototyping is Adidas ZX Flux Femme Noir speed – which is what Carbon prides itself on.Using a method called Digital Light Synthesis the startup is able to print objects up to 10 times faster than other 3D printers. The difference is that instead of printing an object layer by layer from the top down like traditional additive 3D printers do, Carbon’s process is continuous and starts from the bottom.
The liquid resin material also allows for a much more flexible final product compared to the material used by traditional 3D printers.Carbon’s machines use digital light below the Adidas Superstar Homme Noir printing surface to turn the liquid resin into a solid object. The object, in this case the shoe’s midsoles, are pulled up and literally formed from the top down.
The object being printed doesn’t stick to the printing surface because it’s never actually touching – the surface is permeable to both Asics Gel Lyte 5 Femme the digital light and oxygen, which is pumped through the surface to always maintain a ultra-thin layer of air between the printing surface and object being printed.
After the midsole is printed it’s Nike Air Presto Femme attached to the top of the shoe, which is made from fabric using traditional manufacturing methods.Sound complicated? It is. But the end result means that companies can use Carbon’s technology to 3D print objects at scale. Which is exactly what Adidas is planning to do.
For them, the benefits also extend beyond speed. 3D printing allows the Nike Roshe Run Donna shoe company to unlock performance-enhancing design modifications that would have been impossible with other materials like foam.Adidas knows that to perform at their best, athletes need different points of density throughout their midsole. A runner may need a firm toe spot and softer heel, Adidas Gazelle Femme etc. To achieve this with regular shoes, manufacturers need to glue together different pieces of foam with varying densities.
But with Carbon’s 3D printing process they can simply change the geometry of the lattice to make different areas firmer or softer.Essentially, different patterns result in different density and feel. For example, check out how the density of the midsole below changes throughout.
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