What software will I use throughout this workshop?

You will use SideFX Houdini and Blender to procedurally model, texture, and optimize 3D-printable footwear designs.

What specific 3D printing technologies and materials are covered in the curriculum?

The primary focus is on FDM and Resin (SLA, DLP) printing, while also exploring lattice and geometry workflows applicable to Powder-based technologies like SLS and MJF for different material shore hardnesses.

How will we ensure our footwear designs meet manufacturing constraints without support structures?

You will learn to procedurally build shoe lasts, generate overhang-free textures, and run models through Zellerfeld Auto Check to fix common printing errors.

Are participants required to physically print their footwear creations?

No, physical printing is not compulsory, and any optional manufacturing costs are separate from the workshop price.

What practical outcomes can I expect to achieve by the end of the course?]

You will master an end-to-end procedural workflow to translate raw shoe concepts and textures into manufacturing-ready, 3D-printable footwear models.

Jan 4-5, 202514 lessonsIntermediate

FREE with Full Access Jan 4-5, 2025 Workshop Intermediate 14 lessons 5.0 Rating

Additive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin

Additive Footwear Design workshop will focus on using Houdini and Blender to create professional 3D printable footwear designs optimized for FDM and Resin printing technologies.

This course includes

Live workshop · 8h 38m
Lifetime session recordings
Certificate of completion
Downloadable course files
SideFX Houdini · Blender
Private Discord community
Included with Full Access
Jan 4-5, 2025

This workshop explores 3d printed footwear design using procedural tools, allowing students to create professional-level manufacturing-ready 3d models of the highest quality using Houdini and blender. Students will explore a wide range of manufacturing technologies, empowering them to unlock their full design potential.

How to design footwear for FDM and Resin
Manufacturing constraints for FDM and Resin footwear, as well as pros and cons for both
Use Houdini to create an adjustable design
Create textures that don’t cause overhangs
Create lattices for specific materials
Maintain constraints by translating textures into geometry

In this workshop, we will use Sidefx Houdini and Blender to procedurally create 3d printable shoes that maintain manufacturing constraints through parametric methods. Participants will first learn how to model a simple shoe for FDM procedurally, then how to generate and apply textures so that overhangs are not created.

Participants will submit their 3d models to the Zellerfeld Auto Check and fix common errors.

In this workshop, we will translate the first design into something suitable for Resin (SLA, DLP) or Powder (MJF, SLS) printing. We will learn how to generate lattices for the said shoe for specific shore hardnesses of material.

This workshop will teach participants how to use Houdini and Blender to design 3d printable shoes that may be printed using FDM, SLS, MJF, SLA, DLP, and other methods. The main focus will be FDM and SLA, but workflows will apply to most 3d printing technologies.

Participants will be encouraged to print out their creations on their own or with a manufacturer. However, this is not compulsory, and any manufacturing costs are not included in the price and depend on the manufacturer and design.

Students are not required to print the shoes. Manufacturing costs are not included in the workshop price and depend on the manufacturer and design.

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Kedar Benjamin, aka Benjometry, is a computational designer, AI for footwear, and DFAM expert with a background in industrial design. Kedar has 5 years of experience with Houdini and 2 years of experience as an independent computational designer in the footwear industry. In 2022, he created the world’s first AI-designed 3D-printed shoe, Basilisk, printed by Zellerfeld. Kedar has taught workflows at CD: Next and with Designmorphine in the past, as well as courses elsewhere for additive footwear modelling

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