Materialise N.v.

Rsprint N.v.

Hoya Corporation

Materialise Motion

Tom Cluckers

Jan Willem Maes

Tom Craeghs

Joris Van Deun

Takashi Hatanaka

Gerald Eggers

Jean-Pierre Wilssens

Jan Van Espen

Frederik Jansen

Jean Pierre Wilssens

Alireza Parandian

Sven Cornelissen

Mohd Azman Mohd Ismail

Designs and compositions of insoles for footwear are described herein. The insoles may be customized for a given foot. In some examples, the insole () includes a base comprising a variable thickness component (), a directional stiffness component, a stability component, and a reinforcement component. The base may be a single composition that is manufactured using additive manufacturing techniques.

Insole design

Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.

Method of designing and placing a lens within a spectacles frame

Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.

Systems and methods for customization of objects in additive manufacturing

The present disclosure relates to the prediction of part and material quality of Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes using layer based images. Described herein are methods and systems for detection of errors in parts built by AM processes such as Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The detection comprises analysis of optical images to identify errors which appear in layers during the AM build process. Errors include but are not limited to warpage of parts and dross formation of overhang surfaces.

Error detection in additive manufacturing processes

Methods and apparatuses for designing custom footwear are disclosed. An apparatus for designing custom footwear may include a data collection system, a data processing system, and a manufacturing system, where the manufacturing system includes an additive manufacturing device. A method for designing custom footwear may comprise receiving user-specific data, generating a user model, identifying issues in the user model, determining corrective features, generating a custom footwear model, and manufacturing the custom footwear.

Methods and apparatuses for designing footwear

This disclosure relates to a hybrid support system for supporting an object formed by three dimensional printing. In some embodiments, a hybrid support system includes one or more volume support structures, a first volume support structure of the one or more volume support structures being coupled to a base plate and to a first portion of the object. The hybrid support system further includes a partially solidified support structure coupled to a second portion of the object. The hybrid support system further includes one or more reinforcement support structures, a first reinforcement support structure of the one or more reinforcement support structures being coupled to the base plate and to at least one of a portion of the partially solidified support structure and a third portion of the object.

Hybrid support systems and methods of generating a hybrid support system using three dimensional printing

Systems and methods for predicting shape are provided. A system for predicting shape can include a database, a training analysis module, a subject analysis module, and a prediction module. The database can store two sets of training models characterized by first and second parameters, respectively (e.g., bone and cartilage), as well as a subject model characterized by the first parameter (e.g., a bone model). The relationships between these models can be determined by a training analysis module and a subject module. Based on these relationships, the prediction module can generate a predicted shape characterized by the second parameter (e.g., a predicted cartilage model corresponding to the bone model).

Generation of a digital 3D model of an object based on predicting a shape of the object

Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers. These modification specifications may be constrained by the manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.

Systems and methods for designing digital representations of 3-D objects and manufacturing such objects are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems and methods described relate to bending maps that define regions on a physical object that can be bent or manipulated in order to design the 3-D object.

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Tom Cluckers