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I have a basic shoe design (pixelfed.sdf.org)

As you know, I started designing custom 3D-printed shoes for myself. This is a follow-up.

So, I spent some time modeling a basic, thin-walled shoe. Nothing fancy, just a quick something to test the fit and do my first TPU print - although I'll probably start with test pieces before printing this doozie.

One shoe fits on the bed of our Prusa Mk4 - barely.

It's a 17-hour print. Yikes! I think I'll probably do this over the next week-end, otherwise my colleagues will kill me.

The support is mostly inside the toe box and promises to be a real b*tch to remove:

TPU supports

The shoe is very close-fitting, but I've left 2mm all around inside: if I mess up, or if the TPU shrinks like I think it will, it has a chance to remain wearable. If it doesn't, I'll simply put a sock on.

Right shoe model

Stay tuned 🙂

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[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

Probably at about the same rate as normal sneakers, so if you can live with that then these shouldn't be an issue in that regard

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