Podia3D

Design 3D-printable orthotic insoles without CAD

Health & Fitness

3D Printer

3D Modeling

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Hey Product Hunt I've spent the last 10 yearsaround 3D printing and filament, and kept running into the same story from podiatry clinics: they want to print their own custom insoles, and the moment they look into it they're quoted a bundle — proprietary printer, captive material, locked software — for €3,000–8,000 up front and €50–100/kg for TPU that costs €30/kg on the open market. Leave the ecosystem and your files come with you only as a black box, if at all. The thing is, the printing part is already solved. Any decent FDM printer handles TPU. What was missing was software that speaks podiatry instead of CAD, and that hands you a standard file at the end. So we built Podia3D. It runs in the browser and works like this: ◆ You design from clinical parameters, not geometry — arch, heel cup, postings in degrees, contour. Corrections go on by their clinical name: Cluffy, retrocapital bar, fasciitis trident, wedges, offloads. ◆ You set firmness per anatomical zone (rearfoot / midfoot / forefoot), and those zones travel into the 3MF as real print modifiers, so you're not rebuilding them by hand in your slicer. ◆ A foot or cast scan can be loaded as a visual reference for placing and sizing — it does NOT become the final mesh, so scan noise never ends up in the part. ◆ You export a watertight STL for any slicer, or a 3MF project with TPU settings and modifiers ready for Bambu Studio / OrcaSlicer. Being straight with you about what this is not: Podia3D is a v0 prototype and it is NOT certified as medical device software. The MDR documentation it produces is a working draft — review, signature and final conformity stay with the responsible manufacturer. It also isn't a magic scan-to-insole button, and it doesn't replace clinical judgement. I'd rather say that here than have someone find out later. What I'm actually after today: podiatrists, orthotic labs and anyone doing FDM/TPU work who's willing to run a real case through it and tell me where it breaks. Especially on print behaviour — whether the firmness zones actually feel the way the parameters say they should once the part is off the bed. The first 50 pilot seats get a 30% lifetime discount in exchange for that feedback. You can try it without signing up: https://app.podia3d.com/probar?l... Happy to answer any doubt. Pablo