A few months ago I came across these boots and it's safe to say I became a little bit
obsessed with them. Like my boss was teasing me about it. They are called the Morso boots,
Morso means fight and they're by a company called GCDS. They've got fine. So we thought
it would be a fun experiment to see if we could make some. You heard the plan from the fashion team
now it's my job to take the idea and turn it into a physical product. The first step is going to be
getting a digital reference of our physical shoe. There's a couple ways to do that. The most basic
would be just to take a picture from the side and trace out the heel. But we've got access to
Neptune CT scanner now. So I'm going to stick a boot into the scanner and that's going to give us
a 3D model of the shoe that I can then build off of. The process of CT scanning can actually be
very variable. You can do the quickest scan in about 60 minutes or you can go up to about
24 hours. It all depends on how much resolution you want and what the materials that you're
scanning. Steels and stuff will take a lot longer. Fabrics will be pretty much instant.
Once we've got that reference model I'll bring that into software. For most of the things that
we do here we actually use SOLIDWORKS which is great because we've got version control and we
can share the files between teams and keep on working off of each other. But for something
like this where it's going to be a lot of surface modeling and it's going to be not a final product
and prototype I'm going to use a software called Rhino 8. The process of modeling it will be pretty
simple and very similar to what we were talking about before where if you take a picture from the
side and trace the outline of the shoe but because I've got a 3D model of it or I will have a 3D
model of it it will be able to be even quicker and easier to make it mesh together. After we've
got the 3D model it's going to be sticking out on a 3D printer and for this video we're going to try
it on a few different things just to show them off. For this video we've got actually a few
different things we're going to print it on. We've got our Fuse SLS printer here and the
associated not sandblaster cleaning station and then we've also got our wall of FDM printers
that I will probably be printing on a bamboo and we've the last one we'll use is the Rapidia
metal 3D printer that we've got in the other building. What have you got? What have you got?
We've got a couple different options. Okay. We've got the FDM printed ones on the bamboo.
We have the ones printed on the SLS on the fuse and then we kind of have metal ones. Okay these
are lethal. These are lethal but I love them. And they kind of hold together. We ran out of welding
gas and the timeline of this video means we don't have any gas. They could do some serious damage
which I'm not opposed to but I'm not sure it's right for this boot. What's the difference between
these two then? Mostly the process. This one is basically made out of a bunch of powder that a
laser goes by and fuses it together and then this one is kind of like a hot glue gun where it just
extrudes material and builds it up. Okay and tell me about the trees. Yeah so this one because it's
a bunch of powder and it goes up layer by layer you don't need any support and it actually comes out
like this or they're still rough and it's called armor but you have to sandblast it off.
Oh yeah I can see that. And once you sandblast it off then it looks like this. These because it's
extruding up from the bottom you need something to support the top or else it would just kind of
drip and fall over. So that's what these tree supports are and you can pop them off. And do
you have to design those or is that? Nope the slicer just automatically does it but then you
can just pop them off. Oh that looks like fun. Can I do something? Yep. It's also easy to pop the
teeth off in this one. Am I really weak? Yeah. And once they actually start going it's actually not
bad but it's getting it detached from the top that's. Uh Hera loosened it for you.
And then this is one where it has none of the support on. I think we're going to have to
chrome like paint one of these. Which one do you think is going to take the paint better?
This one's probably going to be the nicest. Yeah. The layer lines are smaller. Okay. And it's probably
easier. Okay. We also have this is a dyed of the same print so this is how it comes out of the
printer initially and then this is just with some fabric dye. Rit. Really? Yep. And then
makes it black or blacker. Oh cool. Yeah. Okay well so we can use we'll paint one of these then.
Yes and then actually interesting thing with the fuse prints so this is printed off not dyed or
anything but then if you actually cut into it it is black like the plastic's black it's just that the
surface texture makes it look gray. What are we going to do with all of these though? I feel like
we need to do a separate project with all of these. I don't know. I don't think we had any plan.
Oh look I can do I just was doing it the wrong way. There you go. Other thing with the metal one
since we have it the so these ones were all printed together with the process that the
metal ones are printed when it goes into the sintering furnace it has the consistency of
warm plasticine so if you printed it like this it would droop down and the fun thing with printing
metal is the support is also metal so if you do support like this inside the teeth it's going to
be really fun to take out it's possible but you have to be more clever about it. I'm probably
stronger than me. You need an angle grinder so but yeah so that's why they're printed like this
and we would have welded them together but are these are these solid or are these hollow?
Same as with these ones they've got these ones have 25 percent infill so they're mostly hollow
so they're lighter than they should be. There's still a good way though they're still
very aggressive. So it's painting time? I think it's painting time we'll paint these ones which
means this one has to be sandblasted which I guess we can get b-roll for that. You can see part of
the armor here that's been sandblasted off and then this hasn't been sandblasted. The purpose of
that we think is kind of to do with heat dissipation we're not a hundred percent sure they haven't
told us but yeah you get kind of a crust on the outside of the print and it just sandblasts off.
These are actually also fairly they're all sharp I've stabbed myself a few times. I mean violence
wasn't necessarily um violence is always the answer. I mean it wasn't in the brief but it's
definitely a little extra. It looks kind of sick with that little like with a little bit of like a
gradation yeah. That paint actually looks like it's not bad. It's it's actually really good.
I think it looks I think let's do it leave it like that for a moment and then see. Do another layer
after. Yeah I was part of the team that spray painted the wings for a very impressive movie
called Tooth Fairy with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Are you serious? Yes. Would I lie to you? Yeah
serious many years ago yeah I think working in a shoe factory in Transylvania was pretty
yeah I don't know got me on the spot but um I think like I just started here what six months
ago seven months ago I think I'm gonna get a lot more of those. I think it's longer than six months.
You tired of me already? Yeah. I didn't think these would come out in school this way. It's
pure skills man pure skills. I think that's pretty good. I think those. They're good to me. Yeah.
Do you think they'll actually can I stand in them? Do you think I'll actually like
if I stand on my tippy toes? I would stand in like 50% I wouldn't trust your whole weight on them.
I just I'll just walk in my tippy toes. Yeah that should be fine. I'm used to these kind of
high boots it's all good. Off camera I cut this boot a few days ago just to test fit the prints
and stuff and now we're just gonna band saw this heel off sit down and get it ready to glue the
heel on. There we go now we just have to sand it down the band saw blade has to be replaced.
What do you want to stick them with? Normally use something like epoxy or something for this
but we're just gonna use some hot glue because that's what this project is like. So which one
they're not quite um symmetrical right? No there's a left and a right and those will go there. This
is all my fine boots dreams come true and this is the before heel. Yeah. One of the other options
that we had if we didn't want to paint them is to do something like electroplating. Now we didn't
realize that we actually had an electroplating kit and in a very simplistic way it's basically just
a transfer of metal ions via a solution from a positive electrode to a negative one. So if we
ever want to do something further let us know in the comments and we can do something like electroplating
we even have something like anyone in whoever taken a beginner a chemistry level class will know
copper 2 sulfate pentahydrates so I mean the possibilities are in this. One of the things I
did while designing this was I gave a relief along the edge to try and hide the seam better.
What we're going to do is we're just going to run some glue here and call it a day.
This mini hot glue gun isn't the best either but you can just put hot glue on hit it with a torch
instead of using the hot glue gun. So on the metal ones that would work well just put a bunch of
glue hit it with a torch heated up. I'm so excited about these look at them. So I mean they actually
feel pretty sturdy they I mean for essentially a prototype they are amazing. Yeah they're sick
they're so sick. This is super short I'm really curious to see how they how they are when you
actually wear them. Lisa you want to give them a spin? Oh yeah. Oh yeah those are sick. Oh yeah they look
so good. Yeah I mean I might not wear them the rest of the day. Yeah. Let me see if I can put any
you know there's a definite bend. Yeah they flex. Yeah well we I mean we knew that was going to happen
but like imagine you were just prototyping these like yeah that'd be amazing. Oh yeah.
Can we do more of this? I want to do more of this.
So safe to say they lived up to your expectations? Yeah I'm so excited about these. I'm not actually
going to hear the end of this from Nick. Yes. He's going to tease me so bad but I don't care.
I know you have your boots. We got our boots. We would really love to do some more projects like
this so if you're interested leave a comment and we'll see what we can do. Leave a like,
like it up. Yeah I mean it'd be so cool to do a whole bunch of different fashion content kind of
like blending what we have together with some more stuff so hope you like this as much as we did
and look at our crazy boots.