3D PRINTED SHOE TOOLING
Shorter tooling cycles with greater design freedom.
Additive tooling consolidates traditional steps and enables lattice structures, conformal features and one-piece textures.
A shoe-tooling route built around real applications.
Outsole, midsole and complex textured tooling are representative applications. Product geometry, material, build orientation and finishing are reviewed together for each project.
Outsole tooling
RB rubber / TPU
Midsole tooling
EVA / PHYLON
Complex textured tooling
316L stainless steel
Twelve traditional steps consolidated into six.
The traditional route takes about 15-20 days, while the verified additive route takes about 6-7 days. Actual lead time depends on size, material, build parameters and finishing requirements.
Honeycomb lightweighting
Reduce non-functional mass while preserving the required tooling structure.
Conformal channels
Internal paths can follow the mold geometry to support application-led thermal design.
Integrated texturing
Detailed surface textures can be consolidated into the printed geometry.
Design revision
Digital model changes reduce dependence on physical patterns and repeated tooling steps.
Large-format, configurable multi-laser production.
SP450 supports shoe-tooling production with bidirectional variable-speed recoating and an argon-protected build environment.
- 450 × 450 × 300 mm
- Build volume
- 4 / 6 / 8 / 16
- Selectable laser configuration
- 500 W / 1000 W
- Laser power options
- ≈ 12 h
- Verified example for one tooling set; project-dependent
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