Camper revolutionizes the footwear design process through 3D printing


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Camper is one of the most successful Spanish shoe companies. The brand is known for its innovative designs and highly developed production technology.

Designing footwear using 3D printing

Camper is one of the most successful Spanish shoe companies, boasting sales of 4 million pairs of shoes per year. The brand is also known for its innovative designs and highly developed production technology. At the company's headquarters in Inca, Majorca, the technical department improved the process of developing new collections by implementing 3D printers. 3D printing has significantly accelerated the design process, allowed for greater creative freedom and improved workflow, at the same time, the costs of prototyping new shoes have been significantly reduced.

The design team at Camper has a maximum of three months to create each new collection. With such time constraints, a quick, cost-effective solution is needed that allows for repeated testing and changes to designs, with special attention paid to maintaining the highest standards of quality and ergonomics for each new shoe model.

Before the company started using 3D printing, it outsourced the production of physical models to external suppliers. This process was slow and expensive, taking up to two weeks to obtain a prototype, so each iteration of changes introduced to the model had to be reduced to a minimum, and few new models were made.

Camper is revolutionizing the footwear design process through 3D printing

Expand your creative possibilities with 3D printing

The implementation of several BCN3D 3D printers Sigma and Sigmax started a complete revolution and a real improvement of this process: now designers can test new shapes very quickly, engineers from the technical department transform these ideas into printable models and deliver them within 24 hours!

As Job Willemsen, senior designer at Camper, explains: "Working with BCN3Dprinters is very useful because any of our ideas regarding the shape and dimensions of the shoe can be quickly and reliably verified on a model from a 3D printer . Not only does it shorten our work, but it also truly develops creativity.”

Thanks to several 3D printers on site, Camper now has access to visualization of new projects virtually "on the spot". This is a huge advantage for designers because they can now check volumes, dimensions and geometric shapes that they could not visualize with a model on a computer screen. The journey from the idea to its verification using 3D printing on BCN3D printers takes one day, so the entire team has the opportunity to further develop their creative potential.

Easy access to rapid prototyping provided by additive manufacturing technology on 3D printers allows you to take risks related to experiments on the final shape and properties of products. As designers or technicians, Camper employees do not have to worry about the high costs of making prototypes, thanks to which their creative possibilities are even greater than ever.

Expand your creative possibilities with 3D printing

3D printing in shoe production?

The collections, which Camper designs about a year in advance, are geometrically very complex and, as is well known, 3D printing is also associated with certain limitations, designers need technology capable of reliably reproducing each model down to detail. Is 3D printing able to cope with such complex and detailed shapes? It depends - on choosing the right 3D printer.

That's why Camper chose BCN3D Sigma and Sigmax printers. Thanks to the double extruder system, it is possible to use water-soluble materials to print support structures. This makes it possible to work with more complex geometric shapes and shorten the design time of the entire collection. Sigmax's large printing surface provides enough space to accommodate each of the parts your plant produces, so space never limits your creativity. The working area of the BCN3D Sigmax printer can easily accommodate the entire shoe - even a larger size.

3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way companies develop, produce parts and prototypes. For Camper, this technology meant increased creative capabilities, significant acceleration of new product development, and reduced costs associated with outsourcing prototypes and design time. Like them, designers and engineers around the world are working smarter and innovating faster with BCN3Dprinters. As an authorized distributor of the BCN3D brand in Poland, we provide assistance in optimizing production processes and prototyping using 3D printing.

Source: www.bcn3d.com

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