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CoursesFootwear DesignAdditive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin
Full Access Workshop Jan 4 & 5, 2025 8 Hours
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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.

Kedar Benjamin
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2 courses·5.0

SideFX Houdini
Blender
SideFX HoudiniBlender

About Additive Footwear Design: FDM and Resin

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.
What you will learn
  • 01

    How to design footwear for FDM and Resin

  • 02

    Manufacturing constraints for FDM and Resin footwear, as well as pros and cons for both

  • 03

    Use Houdini to create an adjustable design

  • 04

    Create textures that don’t cause overhangs

  • 05

    Create lattices for specific materials

  • 06

    Maintain constraints by translating textures into geometry

Methodology
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. 
Course Content
14 Lessons
Important Notes
  • 01
    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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SideFX HoudiniBlender
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Instructors
Kedar Benjamin
Kedar Benjamin
2 Courses5.0
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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