For this teacher project I am going to be making a set of broken glasses that will use both the 3-D printer and the Glow forge. The 3-D printer is to print the frame itself but the Glow forge is for the cutting of the lenses. In order to make the frame of the glasses I used tinkercad.com, which is an online designing software that allows for easy creation and manipulation of many pre-designed shapes. Tinkercad is also a free service that only requires an email account which makes it an easy tool to use when designing cad files quickly, and it also has a data base that stores all your previous files and progress. For this specific project I only needed a couple tubes with thin walls and a box in the middle to connect them. The picture below shows how it would look in the interface of Tinkercad
The size of these frames was calculated after making the lenses of the glasses by cutting acrylic through the glowforge. The program used to do this is called gravit.io and is very similar to tinkercad in how it is used and accessed but it does not have a real life unit of measurement. This means that the size of the lenses determines the size of the frames ans not the other way around. After sending a file through to the glowforge, it may take a couple passes of the laser to fully cut through the acrylic but it only takes a button press to print again. Then after all of it is cut and printed, the sides of the glasses need to be made and to do so, I used the 3-D printing pen to draw the sides of the glasses. Since the cover of the book has the sides as thin wire, it makes sense to also make them thin in real life. Using the pen is as easy as three steps, the first is to insert the filament into the pen and turn it on, the second step is to draw out what the design actually looks like, and the third is just to outline the previously made design with the pen.
The size of these frames was calculated after making the lenses of the glasses by cutting acrylic through the glowforge. The program used to do this is called gravit.io and is very similar to tinkercad in how it is used and accessed but it does not have a real life unit of measurement. This means that the size of the lenses determines the size of the frames ans not the other way around. After sending a file through to the glowforge, it may take a couple passes of the laser to fully cut through the acrylic but it only takes a button press to print again. Then after all of it is cut and printed, the sides of the glasses need to be made and to do so, I used the 3-D printing pen to draw the sides of the glasses. Since the cover of the book has the sides as thin wire, it makes sense to also make them thin in real life. Using the pen is as easy as three steps, the first is to insert the filament into the pen and turn it on, the second step is to draw out what the design actually looks like, and the third is just to outline the previously made design with the pen.
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