Why Is 3D Printing Embarrassing Now?

Before opening this topic, let's look at a picture first.

She is a stranger to everyone. As a celebrity known as the world's leading striptease girl, she makes countless men dream about it, and her ex husband is a legend of the gothic music world.

The woman's name is Dita Von Teese, which has a classical aesthetic appearance and undulating and exquisite figure. This is enough for some fashion.

I have a dream that one day I will make a shape for her.

The above picture shows the fashion designer Michael Schmidt (the designer of Lady Gaga that year) and the architect Francis Bitonti, who made a special dress for her.

At first glance, this dress and the Hollywood ladies are not different from each other on the red carpet every time, but you can easily see that there is no stitch shadow on the whole garment. In other words, the process of making this dress is at one go, without the steps of the traditional dress called three-dimensional cutting and sewing.

How to do that? 3D printing.

This is not a new term. Earlier, the field of industrial design was very much encouraged by this mature technology. Product design and manufacture will take away the high cost steps of lathe die opening, and move directly to the 3D printer, which is directly controlled by the computer 3D technology, and use the raw materials to form a single product stage.

It sounds like a new round of industrial revolution that is expected to come out. The magazine boldly predicted that 3D printing would become the key factor to form the third industrial revolution earlier.

Unfortunately, however, this emerging technology did not attack the entire manufacturing sector in the market share as we expected.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, it is reasonable to say that 3D printing is more advantageous than traditional process in the production and processing of products. Especially in the aspect of raw material consumption, 3D printing can achieve the height that traditional manufacturing industry can not match. Why is there an embarrassing situation of thunder and heavy rain now?

Before we can give a reliable answer to this question, we turn our attention back to the category of clothing industry.

As a member of the manufacturing industry, the clothing industry and other products producing areas share many commonalities, but there are also very special aspects.

Take the picture of the opening chapter, Dita Von Teese has already surpassed the simple meaning of a dress.

Like many red carpet dresses, it has only one chance to make a formal appearance, and there will be no more than second identical items.

This is the initial meaning of the advanced customization industry.

In other words, 3D printing at the right time was at the right time to intervene in the advanced custom clothing, or that the top customization was finally ushered in the most representative technology of the twenty-first Century.

You will not deny that there is a deep gap between advanced customization and everyday garments.

For the garment part, the traditional garment manufacturing industry will be tailored and trimmed by the designer when the Designer completes the upstream design effect. As you can see, the fashion industry is not the designer but the senior printer.

The final size of the garment is determined by the size parameters of the final structure of the final garment.

Once the plate is finished, the workshop as the downstream part of garment production only needs to draw the gourd according to the size of the plate, cut the fabric, stitch the parts in a good place, and stitch each part into a complete garment.

To put it plainly, traditional clothing is like traditional woodblock printing. After making the master version, you can copy and print or make your clothes as many times as you want.

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What does this mean for 3D printing? If 3D printing really wants to replace the traditional garment making process, where will the biggest bottleneck come from?

We still look back at the dress of Dita Von Teese. There is no stitch in the whole body. The true meaning of the word is seamless.

However, this is unthinkable for the textile industry, which is in the upper reaches of the garment industry. The fabric should be surrounded on the human body to create a circle, which means that the loom can be woven into a tubular fabric. This is obviously a joke, not impossible, but unrealistic. What kind of diameter should the tubular fabric produce for each person's body circumference? But there is one exception: knitting wool, because wool can be directly used as a fabric.

The raw materials are imported into the garment making process without the need to be woven into wool cloth and then cut.

Therefore, in the traditional garment industry,

It is indeed a very special classification.

But what you should notice is that 3D printing technology has a huge premise. The raw materials used must be liquid. What does that mean? Dita Von Teese's 3D printing dress is made of nylon, an artificial synthetic fiber. However, when making this dress, nylon is not in the form of our common nylon stockings, but is injected into the 3D printing machine in the form of plastic fluid. It is melted into fluid and poured again.

To put it simply, 3D printer is like a cement mold robot, which takes in fluid, and the model is air dried until it is solid.

Although the current material science can help to solve the practical problems of materials such as latex (or even softer sheet materials), they completely replace textile fabrics as raw materials for our clothing, but they are also limited to small-scale experiments in laboratories and workshops.

In terms of how to solve the cost and equipment maintenance problems of such synthetic materials, there are still many bottlenecks to be achieved in achieving mass production in the garment industry.

In this way, 3D printing is a rainbow in fashion, but it can't be seen.

The designers who are in the front line are always changing the way to refresh our cognition of clothes. Apart from Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti's early adopters for Dita Von Teese to make 3D print clothing, a large number of new technology fanatics have been infected with this new technology.

Victoria s Secret, a show that men display as a visual feast, used 3D printing technology at the 2013 underwear conference to print the wings and accessories of the angel's wings.

Another Holland designer named Anouk Wipprecht, inspired by bionics, has completed a series of clothing works with defensive functions and a range of respiratory sensors and distance sensors using 3D printing technology.

And the following picture is plain, but the skirt will adjust cocktail.

Every time the host interact with others, the pneumatic control valve will pour the wine behind it into the small cup on the chest.

As well as the following skirt, because it is printed with high-performance insulation material, it can protect the wearer from the voltage of 500 thousand volts.

If these are beyond the limits of your brain hole, perhaps a pragmatic and avant-garde designer like Iris van Herpen can give you a comfortable account of visual aesthetics with 3D printing technology.

She skillfully used printed materials to simulate the soft texture of traditional fabrics, but it is likely to open a lower threshold for the popularity of 3D technology in the clothing industry.

Yesterday, I could not bear to face this. When I mentioned this, it is not difficult to see that the new technology that was once crowed was still short of technology before it faced the monopoly of traditional manufacturing technology. In the field of clothing industry, it served as a mass actor for soy sauce and provided some possibilities for the accessory structure and accessories of clothing.

If you want to ask when 3D printing technology can enter ordinary people, so that everyone can turn into a designer of their own wardrobe and print their own clothes as they please, this question is a little far away.

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