Too High! CNC sample images.

Eyewear Render

The rendering of the eyewear is not so much different from the wireframe, and there is it's strength. The entire piece can be 3D printed with ABS plastic, which would allow a small amount of flexibility to a one-piece design.

The glasses have been made to fit perfectly behind my ears and be supported by my nose. Would the eyewear be made of metal, it would likely be too heavy to be comfortable, and slip down the bridge of my nose.

Here the top view of the glasses are visible; there are no joints, and is meant to be one solid piece of material. While being somewhat retro, I wanted to make something that would be somewhat protective, and that couldn't be done with wide open lenses.

I also wanted a design that wouldn't require replacement parts, should a piece break. Being one solid piece means a greater structural integrity against damage. Of course, the flip side to this is that should some part break, repairs would be more difficult.

I fully intended this piece to be able to be 3D printed in a variety of plastics, regardless of rigidity or weight (determined by internal structure), but it could also be cast in a variety of materials, such as bronze or aluminum. As such, there are no off-the-shelf parts, just raw material forced to take shape.

More eyeslits!

Because there weren't enough before.

To digitize the glasses to this point, all I had to do was take measurements between the points highlighted below, as well as the height;

I didn't really have troubles drawing them in space, but since my GPU went through a driver update, the visuals have been coming through rather strangely. I'll revert to the old drivers for the time being and see if that fixes things.

I've got to make joints for the glasses so they can fold... or maybe I should make them solid? We'll see. I'll try both.

NO TAPE FOR YOU; Eyewear Adventures

I forgot my tape.

But hey, I have the basic cutout of what I want.

I screwed up the length of the earpiece first time around; above you can see my changes.

Well, here is how it stands for now. Will reinforce everything with duct tape tomorrow morning!

CNC Sample Concept Design

Talking about fractals, Mike Doborski and I have decided to go with a version of a design he had attempted previously; here is the current iteration of the design.

Kind of sun-like! The radial points will have to be smoothed, although we'll see how this turns out in CAM first.

Digitized Knife!

Rhino is perhaps the most annoying program I have used to create a complex blade shape! However, once I understood why I was being limited, it was easy enough to remodel the blade how it was intended. Without further ado, the pictures!

This was a very fun project to attempt! It's made it more clear how I would go about making my own custom designs in Rhino, in the future.

Digitized knife... almost.

Well I have to say this was a very overwhelming week, and resulted in an underwhelming object.

Everything has been drawn, although some final adjustments need to be made... more updates to come.