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Contents:
- Introduction
- Why is 3D printing a great technology for the eyewear industry?
- Best 3D printed glasses projects
- How to create your 3D printed glasses with Sculpteo?
Introduction
Why is 3D printing a great technology for the eyewear industry?
3D printing brings unlimited possibilities of designs
There is a simple sentence that clearly defines the whole potential of 3D printing when it comes to creation and design: “The only limit is your own imagination”. Indeed, this technology allows you to create extremely complex structures, and in some cases, designs that you could not even make come true without 3D printing due to traditional manufacturing constraints.
In the eyewear industry, this technology has been used more and more to create 3D printed glasses since it opens a broad range of possibilities to create 3D printed glasses frames totally custom-made. You can easily create either simple and complex designs.
Custom-made 3D printed glasses are more comfortable
For the person wearing glasses, choosing the right pair is not an easy task. Finding comfortable glasses with good design takes time. Also, the limited choices of design, in some cases, lead the wearer to sacrifice the design above their own comfort. Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, 3D printed glasses can be customized to fit the individual’s needs. It gives the wearer a feeling of comfort and at the same time a cool style.
Besides offering freedom of designs and shapes, 3D printing uses less material to produce glasses frames.
Additive manufacturing also offers new opportunities, it is actually a great way to improve your product thanks to new designs and new materials: lighter 3D printed glasses frames can be made thanks to 3D printable frames.
With 3D printing, you can produce high-quality glasses
When it comes to choosing glasses, quality of the material, resistance and durability are the main elements that need to be taken into account. To produce the same quality of glasses, Polyamide 12, known as Nylon, is commonly used to 3D print glasses frame. This material has the expected properties, being resistant, durable and offers great freedom for design. Thus, thanks to 3D printing you can create high-quality 3D printed glasses. For the moment, companies 3D print frames, but soon, it could even become possible for you to 3D print lenses for your glasses
Build your brand thanks to 3D printing
3D printing helps you get ahead of your competitors, by getting a much more efficient manufacturing process.
Moreover, using additive manufacturing is the perfect way to build your brand and your DNA. Using 3D printing, combines aesthetics and innovation, pushing your company to a brand new level.
Optimize your supply-chain
If you want to use additive manufacturing to create finished 3D printed glasses, then, this technology will help you optimize your whole production process. Indeed, using additive manufacturing also means reducing your stock. With traditional manufacturing techniques, you need to build your stock, but with 3D printing: you avoid waste, you can produce your parts when you need them!
Best 3D printed glasses projects
3D printed glasses have been around for years and many companies started to adopt this innovation to improve their design. Here are some 3D printed glasses manufacturers that adopted this technology to improve their products, or their manufacturing process.
Netlooks
Sculpteo recently partnered with Netlooks, a company precisely at crossroads of technology and craftsmanship.
This eyewear company is now making the most of the advantages of 3D printing.
In the beginning, Netlooks was handling everything in-house: customers just had to choose the eyewear, get a face scan, and try a test model, before getting the final handmade product. But here is the problem, per store, more than 200 testing models were required, involving more than 1000 hours of work and a dozen craftsmen dedicated to creating them. That is precisely where 3D printing appeared to be the best solution for Netlooks, to create their test eyewear models and scale their business growth! The final product is still handcrafted, but 3D scanning helps to create 3D models, and 3D printed glasses helps to ensure that the eyewear frames are perfectly adapted to the customer’s morphology.
Monoqool
Aiming to bring innovation to the fashion industry, Monoqool manufactures its own 3D printed glasses. In its new Slider Collection, this Danish-based eyewear company creates ultra-thin and lightweight glasses thanks to 3D printing.
In this case, additive manufacturing is used to improve the product, not to create extravagant designs and collections. These glasses frames are simple and feature screwless hinges.
October71
Creating 3D printed eyewear made in France! October71 uses our online 3D printing service to create ultra-light glasses. According to its founder Christophe Mouty, 3D printing for optics is a way to make light products, actually 30% lighter than acetate or plastic on average), but also very robust, customizable eyeglasses and sunglasses. It definitely helps optimize the supply chain of a eyewear manufacturer.
Oxydo
Oxydo is another brand, creating what they call “wearable sculptures”. This company is pushing the limits of creativity, using 3D technology to develop their impressive products. Colorful and original 3D printed sunglasses, with architectural forms and a lot of details.
Hoet
Additive manufacturing also allows for fancy possibilities. Hoet is a Belgian eyewear design company.
Their goal is clearly to use 3D printing technology in order to experiment and find new designs. These glasses are another proof that additive manufacturing is able to create end products with great quality.
Protos Eyewear
Another eyewear company that adopts this cutting-edge technology to create 3D printed glasses that really fit you. Protos Eyewear is using 3D printing at a more complex level than the previous brands: Protos created a software that allows them to alter the design of glasses to fit your facial structure. Using hypoallergenic bioplastics, Protos Eyewear creates innovative designs that are impossible to replicate using a traditional manufacturing process.
How to create your 3D printed glasses with Sculpteo?
Manufacturing eyewear is not an easy thing to do, but 3D printing can help you with the manufacturing process, for rapid prototyping for example, but also for the production of your finished eyewear product. At Sculpteo, we help you give life to your 3D design in a few clicks.
Choose the best materials
Each project you develop has its own needs. This means, each project will need a different 3D printing material, different material properties, and a different finished look.
So what material will be the best option in order to develop your 3D printed eyeglasses? For a reliable and economical project, the best choice will be to use a powder bed fusion technology, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), which offers you possibilities to print using various of our plastic materials such as Nylon PA12, or Multi Jet Fusion PA12 and make the most of great finishes for your 3D printed glasses, or 3D printed sunglasses.
You could go even further by developing glasses made using plastic and metal 3D printing: technology such as binder jetting could be used to add details and some jewelry to your creations. Additive manufacturing offers new opportunities, impossible to reach with traditional manufacturing techniques.
The perfect finish for your 3D printed glasses
You are now ready to 3D print your own glasses, but we have one more tip for you.
Indeed, to help you get the best finished product, we recommend you to add the Color touch finish to your 3D printed glasses. This finish is available on our online 3D printing service thanks to the DyeMansion technology and will optimize the final look of your glasses by giving them a satin look. At Sculpteo, we already 3D printed luxury sunglasses with this finish. They have been used daily for more than two years now, and their colors are still UV-stable and brilliant.
Check out the color touch finish page to get more information about the DyeMansion technology and the colors available for your 3D printed glasses.
So, do you have any idea in mind about your own 3D printed glasses design? Print your own glasses right now by uploading your 3D file. Make the most of our professional 3D printers and receive your parts in a few days! From rapid prototyping to production, additive manufacturing will help you give life to your 3D design.
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👓 Best 3D print files for glasses and sunglasses・Cults
👓 Best 3D print files for glasses and sunglasses
Download 3D files of glasses
The designers of the Cults community have imagined all kinds of glasses. There are obviously sunglasses and eyeglasses printed in 3D, but you will also find fancy glasses for different events or to make costumes for cosplay!
Sunglasses
Free
VirtualTryOn.fr Eyeglass frame (flat)
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Nose pad for mask - COVID
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Harry Potter Glasses
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Universal Glasses Stand
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VirtualTryOn.com - 3D Printing Glasses - Steve v2 - VTO
Free
VirtualTryOn.fr - 3D Printing Glasses - Steve
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Sunglasses
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VirtualTryOn.
fr Eyeglass frameFree
Glasses / Sunglasses
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Glasses COVID-19
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VirtualTryOn.fr - Glasses 3D printing - Low Paulie
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Pencil-Case triangle
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POP Glasses
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Eyeglasses wall mount holder
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Bre got glasses?
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SpecStand (Short) Eyeglasses/Sunglasses Stand
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CUSTOMIZABLE 3D VTO PRINTING GLASSES
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Luna Lovegood Glasses
Free
Car Sunglasses Glasses/Card/Ticket Clips Holder
Free
VirtualTryOn.co.uk - 3D Eyewear - Enio
Free
PLASIL 2 Glasses Stand
Free
3DBK Frames
Free
Porte-lunette
€2.
06
Nose Glasses Support
Free
Tiki Sunglass Holder
Free
Thug Life Glasses - Dual Color
Free
Sunglasses
Free
Melon Shades
Free
Funny Nose Glasses Stand
Free
Face Mask Pozicer-Prevents fogging of glasses
Free
RhinoGlass
Free
Operating theatre glasses 2h Covid 19
Free
Glasses Holder
Free
3d printable Glasses
Free
Anti Fog Clip For Surgical Mask
Free
modular glasses
Free
Glasses case (rework of Jasoncanning design)
Free
Modular Glasses Stand
Free
Jaa's Steampunk Glasses v 1.
0Free
2020 Silly New Year Glasses with dual extruder option
Free
Lashes Glasses
Free
DIY Video Glasses for Raspberry Pi
Free
Eye glasses holder
Free
Sunglasses #2
Free
Sunglasses V2
Free
Stand for glasses/spectacles (OpenSCAD design)
Free
Pencil-Case triangle
CUSTOMIZABLE 3D VTO PRINTING GLASSES
Harry Potter Glasses
Pencil-Case triangle
Discover our selection of the best 3D files for 3D printers to make vision glasses or sunglasses. All these STL files are easily printable in 3D, so you just have to download them, heat up your 3D printer and then of course add glasses.
This collection was made by selecting the best creations from the Cults 3D Object Library.
That's the beauty of 3D printing*, you can make everyday items right at home and they are functional. In this case for the **3D printing eyeglasses, it is now even possible to print the closing mechanism of the temples. In addition to the functional aspect, there is the aesthetic aspect and the great advantage of this 3D technology is the possibility to **personalize your glasses thanks to 3D printing*.
The customization of your glasses includes the possibility to adapt their size to your face and your skull shape, but also to select recycled and recyclable materials such as PLA from bio-plastics. There are also 3D printing materials that can reproduce the look of wood or even bronze!
No need to warn you that you must obviously be very careful with your eyes and that eyeglasses and sunglasses remain medical accessories.
It is therefore up to your doctor, ophthalmologist or optician to advise you before using these glasses!
👓 Best files for 3D printing glasses and sunglasses・Cults
👓 Best files for 3D printing glasses and sunglasses
Download 3D files for glasses
Designers from the Cults community have come up with all kinds of glasses. Of course, there are sunglasses and 3D printed glasses, but you will also find fancy glasses for various events or to create cosplay costumes!
Sunglasses
Free
VirtualTryOn.fr Eyeglass frame (flat)
Free
Nose pad for mask - COVID
Free
Harry Potter Glasses
Free
Glasses
Free
Universal Glasses Stand
Free
VirtualTryOn.com - 3D Printing Glasses - Steve v2 - VTO
Free
VirtualTryOn.
fr - 3D Printing Glasses - Steve Free
Sunglasses
Free
VirtualTryOn.fr Eyeglass frame
Free
Glasses / Sunglasses
Free
Glasses COVID-19
Free
VirtualTryOn.fr - Glasses 3D printing - Low Paulie
Free
Pencil Case triangle
Free
POP Glasses
Free
Eyeglasses wall mount holder
Free
Bre got glasses?
Free
SpecStand (Short) Eyeglasses/Sunglasses Stand
Free
CUSTOMIZABLE 3D VTO PRINTING GLASSES
Free
Luna Lovegood Glasses
Free
Car Sunglasses Glasses/Card/Ticket Clips Holder
Free
VirtualTryOn.
co.uk - 3D Eyewear - Enio Free
PLASIL 2 Glasses Stand
Free
3DBK Frames
Free
Sunglass holder
2.06 €
Nose Glasses Support
Free
Tiki Sunglass Holder
Free
Thug Life Glasses - Dual Color
Free
Sunglasses
Free
Melon Shades
Free
Funny Nose Glasses Stand
Free
Face Mask Pozicer-Prevents fogging of glasses
Free
RhinoGlass
Free
Operating theater glasses 2h Covid 19
Free
Glasses Holder
Free
3d printable Glasses
Free
Anti Fog Clip For Surgical Mask
Free
modular glasses
Free
Glasses case (rework of Jasoncanning design)
Free
Modular Glasses Stand
Free
Jaa's Steampunk Glasses v 1.
0 Free
2020 Silly New Year Glasses with dual extruder option
Free
Lashes Glasses
Free
DIY Video Glasses for Raspberry Pi
Free
Eye glasses holder
Free
Sunglasses #2
Free
Sunglasses V2
Free
Spectacle/glass holder (OpenSCAD project)
Free
Pencil case triangle
CUSTOMIZABLE 3D VTO PRINTING GLASSES
Harry Potter Glasses
Pencil case triangle
Discover our selection of best 3d files for 3d printers to make glasses or sunglasses . All these STL files are easy 3D printed , so you just need to download them, heat up your 3D printer, and of course add glasses.
This collection has been created by selecting the best creations from the **Cults 3D Object Library.
That's the beauty of 3D printing, you can create everyday items right at home and they're functional. In this case, for **3D printing glasses , even the mechanism for closing the temples can now be printed. In addition to the functional aspect, there is an aesthetic aspect and the big advantage of this 3D technology is the ability to Personalize your glasses with 3D printing .
Glasses customization includes the ability to customize the size to your face and skull shape , as well as select recycled and recycled materials such as bioplastic PLA. There are also 3D printing materials that can replicate the look of wood or even bronze!
No need to warn you that you must be very careful with your eyes and that spectacles and sunglasses remain medical equipment . Therefore, it is up to your doctor, ophthalmologist or optometrist to advise you before using these glasses!
8 Unusual Things 3D Printed
Many people think that 3D printing creates products that are beyond our daily life, but 3D printed products are already being used by many consumers who appreciate the benefits of new technology.
In recent years, the global trend towards personalization is changing the picture of the entire consumer market. The opportunity to purchase a special product, made to measure, is increasingly becoming a determining factor in the purchase. In addition to attracting the consumer, 3D printing also gives companies a competitive advantage in production, significantly reducing the time for the implementation of each individual project. Now, instead of lengthy logistics, complex supply chains, stockpiling, the entire production process can be packed into a few days, and 3D printing of most objects will take hours. Thus, it turns out to optimize resources and reduce the cost of the final product.
Today, HP Inc.'s Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers provide companies around the world from different sectors of the economy print unexpectedly interesting and useful things:
1. Orthopedic insoles
Startup Invent Medical operates under the motto "Help through innovation".
This is the case when medicine combined 25 years of human biomechanics research with 3D printing, scanning and design algorithms.
The company prints unique orthopedic insoles according to the individual parameters of the client in order to match the physiological characteristics and lifestyle of each consumer.
2. Glasses
Horizons Optical is not your typical optical manufacturer. The brand does not just create glasses, but develops innovative products and services.
One of the company's most innovative projects is the Made4U concept, which uses imaging and 3D printing technologies to create fully personalized eyeglasses that perfectly fit any face type. To create them, a special system for scanning the structure of the face has been developed, which allows printing frames taking into account all the individual characteristics of the client.
3. Shoes
Designer Annie Fu has created a collection of futuristic women's shoes.
Don't let the bright and unusual shape of these shoes scare you: in fact, all models are comfortable and absolutely comfortable to wear, because each pair is created according to the measurements and shape of the foot of a particular client.
4. An alternative to braces
The Swiss company Nivellmedical has developed an aesthetic alternative for those who are embarrassed by iron shackles and dream of a beautiful smile. Instead of installing classic braces, the company offers transparent caps, using 3D printing and thermoforming to make them. Nearly invisible plastic elements gently yet effectively align teeth.
To create molds, the doctor first scans the patient's jaw and then creates a virtual object that is quickly 3D printed.
5. Guards Helmet
A military unit of the Swiss Guards of the Vatican, which exists since 1506, is responsible for the protection of the Pope. Their 3D-printed helmets replicate the original 16th-century models, but weigh just over 500 grams.
The helmets are made in just fourteen hours, when the previous ones took about seven times longer to create.
6. Dolls
The Spanish toy manufacturer Look Real has implemented a project to create personalized dolls that are like two drops of water similar to their owners. Psychologically, this could set the trend for the entire gaming industry.
It has been scientifically proven that the proportions of a doll have an impact on the mental and physical health of a child and form his idea of his body. Since the doll acts as a prototype of a person in a children's game, it is important that her appearance is as close to real as possible. In the first seven years, the child's psyche is characterized by special mobility and the ability to project: the most striking features of the toy remain in the mind. The goal of the startup was to take into account these features and, using innovative technologies, create a special doll for each child, helping to form a healthy perception of their appearance.
7. Personal protective equipment
During the coronavirus pandemic, the speed of developing and producing new products has become a key advantage of 3D technology. If in traditional production it takes weeks to reconfigure devices, then the new method allows you to send a file with a product layout for printing in one click, just like we start printing any document on a regular printer.
Literally within twenty-four hours, the technology allows hundreds of elements to be produced simultaneously from scratch. In the first months of the pandemic alone, more than 3.3 million parts for hospitals around the world were quickly printed on HP 3D printers. These include face shields, mask holders, face shields, nose swabs, touchless door openers and respirator components. In addition, in order to provide the largest number of patients and medical institutions with scarce protective equipment, HP Inc. created a page where 3D model files are published in the public domain, which can be downloaded and sent for 3D printing anywhere in the world.
8. Car parts
Racing car brand Cupra uses 3D printing to create side windows and air vents. Thanks to these developments, the company has the ability to print several elements in a short period of time and change their configuration in the car during the production process.
German carmaker Volkswagen has produced more than ten thousand models of the ID.3 mid-range electric car, also using 3D printing to produce shift levers and mirror mounts.
Recently, the Nissan brand has also joined these companies: spare parts for rare cars are created on 3D printers. Long out of production retro model parts like these are no longer available in warehouses and used to take many months to find, but now they can be 3D printed in just a few hours.
Finally, to help make 3D printing waste sustainable, Ford and HP are collaborating on waste-free 3D printing of automotive parts. So, from recycled materials, Ford creates clips for fuel hoses for Super Duty F-250 pickups.
