Im going to be going into my 3rd year in September, and for my final project I’d like to make a collection of sunglasses. So far it seems to be the easy part, but the thing that I am finding most difficult is to get my own pattern (I’m a textiles students) onto the frames of the glasses, I feel as though 3d printing is the best way to print the glasses, but I don’t know if its possible to get different colour and patterns printed onto the frames, like you see in high street stores.
Any help on this would be great, its a real pain trying to find anything helpful
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Hi there! I would recommend to take a look at T-Glase by taulman3d. You could also get yourself some boards out of clear plastics with a thickness of 1-2mm. Look for PP, PMMA (acrylic glass), PE, PVC, PET. You could take a very sharp knife and first cut out the pattern of one glass, next you use a fan, to heat that disk up. After some time the disk should be bendable and you can either bend it as you wish by hand, or you use a 3d printed block, which has one side formed like the desired curvature of the glass and press the cutout onto the block. For more information and recommendations, please talk to me via my hub (start an enenquiry). www.3dhubs.com/siegen/hubs/marius Cheers, Marius Breuer
@ydg54ymail might be able to help, he printed these ones: Talk Manufacturing | Hubs
Another great example would be @Nasim_Sehat and this funky eyewear collection: Talk Manufacturing | Hubs.
Good luck with the project!
Hey @Funmi_Hobbs_Lab It would be really helpful if you could give some more details about the printing. What printers do you have? Do you want to print them yourself or want to get it printed elsewhere?
Hi,
I would say it is quite easy to make the glasses with patterns on, just find a hub that can do dual, triple or quad extrusion. This means the printer can print in two, three or four colours at once. Such printers include the Duplicator 4x and Replicator 2 dual for two colours and the Cube Pro (I think there called) printers for 3 and 4 colours simultaneously.
Quite agree with @jeri if we are speaking about color patterns, not geometrical ones. In case you are thinking about the patterns as geometrical ones, not color ones, you can simply extrude them based on 2d image, then attach it to your final glasses design. Also in this case the mono extruder printer will suffice.
yeah, its suppose to be a colour pattern on the frames no cut outs or anything, i’d like to have multiple colour (5 at most) and its seems difficult to find anyone at the moment. I have looked at some of the suggestions but I don’t think they are right
