Unique 3D Print Shoes Have Attracted British Designers' Attention.

For the British footwear designer Silvia Fado, 3D printing technology has been playing a role from the beginning of her design and manufacturing process.

In fact, she learned the 3D printing technology by completing a completely traditional shoe, which enabled her to integrate traditional technology with 3D printing and create unique 3D print shoes.

For her

Shoes, Silvia usually promise high heel and sole parts, and combine it with leather material (this piece she usually uses traditional craft to finish manually), metal parts and so on.

As we all know, the materials used for 3D printing shoes must be strong, durable and wear resistant besides their beauty.

But fortunately, she found a well-known 3D printing wire manufacturer Colorfab to sponsor, which made her have a large number of materials with different characteristics and colors to choose from.

OFweek3D printing network news for the British footwear designer Silvia Fado, 3D printing technology from her design and manufacturing process began to play a role.

In fact, she learned the 3D printing technology by completing a completely traditional shoe, which enabled her to integrate traditional technology with 3D printing and create unique 3D print shoes.

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She also gets inspiration from other disciplines, such as architecture and engineering. For example, in the Kinetic Traces series, she integrated various industrial springs and pneumatic hydraulics into a design, exploring the relationship between body movement and footwear design and manufacture in a fashion and unique way.

Because Silvia wants to have full freedom in her experiments, she never uses 3D.

Of course, part of the reason is that it is more expensive.

Correspondingly, she chose to buy her own machine and chose the ZMorph 2.0 3D printer.

This is a multi-function 3D printer with CNC, laser cutting and carving functions. It seems to be a perfect choice for a designer who is full of exploration and likes to try new materials and manufacturing methods.

At first, she had to work a lot to learn how to use 3D printers.

It's not easy for a person to think about this at home. It took her about a month to learn to use all kinds of materials and hardware to work.

Now she sometimes provides some guidance, tutorials, or digitalization functions to other creative professionals.

In her Carbonalise series shoes, Silvia uses carbon fiber to print high heels with 3D, which makes it both light and strong. Besides, Silvia also adds a metal strip to the outer side of the heel, which gives it a more futuristic and elegant appearance.

The latest works of Silvia are Ray of Liberty series.

The inspiration for these 3D print shoes comes from the architectural style of the free tower, which she designed for the New York fashion week.

In this project, Silvia used pparent wires and placed a light source in the shoes, thus creating a unique effect.

Today, Silvia Fado has not stopped. She is still experimenting with different types of high-strength plastics to find out the best materials that can match her ideas.

Details about its ongoing work are still kept secret, but the artist has revealed that she is considering increasing the number of 3D printing components in the design and creating new non shoe 3D print design works.