Over the past few weeks, we have made numerous attempts at printing the flexible NinjaFlex material on the FDM printers in the lab. The two printers that we have tried to print on are the …
Flexible insoles
Finding Support Structure of the flexible insole for dual-material printing
Flexible filaments can be up to 3 times more expensive than more common ABS or PLA filaments. In order to reduce manufacturing cost, we can use dual-material printers to print support structures with cheaper material …
Insole Optimization Using Cura
Our group was a little delayed on running the 3D printing simulations in the provided Cura software due to difficulties with the 3D scanning of the foot that we experienced. Now that we have a …
Personalized Insole: 3D Scanning, Foot Casting, and Other Methods for Printing
On November 11th, Alex and I went to the wet lab inside of ME to meet with a graduate student in order to show us how to use the 3D scanner. Alex brought an insole …
Insole CAD Model, Flexible Printing Filament
A 3D scanner will be implemented (Tuesday, 11/3) to model the 3D foot sole shape to provide customized arch support to the insole. 3D scanning will be a part of the pre-processing phase on the …
Shoe Insole Project Design Requirements
This project will consist of designing an insole for a shoe consisting of two materials, a flexible/soft material for cushion and a strong material for support. Our initial thoughts are to use FilaFlex, a thermoplastic …