Delaney Brummond

For Lab 2 Part A, I made a poor decision and decided to model my sunglasses. I wanted something harder than say my water bottle, but this ended up being pretty difficult.

These are the pictures I modeled with. I felt that this would be of medium difficulty when I started.

After working on the front of the sunglasses I realized how difficult this was going to be. I traced out the front of the sunglasses. I first tried to use network surface as I am still learning how exactly that works. I kept trying to do different things and all it would say is it wasn’t working. So I ended up used sweep to make them into a solid. This did not work very well. I ended up using curves to split the solid that I wanted from the jagged edges.

Next came the ear pieces. I thought this would result in a bit of an easier time, and thankfully it did. I decided to do a simple cylinder after attempting to use sweep again and failing. The back part of the sunglasses seemed like a good time to try sweep again, so I drew a curve and put a rectangle at the bottom end and a circle at the top end. This turned out pretty well, but I wanted to bend the end, as they slightly tilt in. This lead to a long process of trying to get it to bend in without doing something crazy with the shape. I finally decided rotate was what I needed, and rotated the back part in. I then used the copy command and adjusted as necessary by using the gumball to rotate and move.

I then realized that where the nose hits was empty. I used a curve and extruded the curve from there to add the nose piece in.

I finally wanted to make the actual glasses part of the sunglasses, and had no idea how to do this. I knew it wasn’t planar, so Planar Surface would not work. I ended up googling it and patch ended up working fantastically. I then extruded the surface to make it have a bit of depth.

I next tried to join each piece, but boolean union would not work, no matter if they were for certain touching or not. Although I feel as if I am not done, I am content with my piece and surprised at how long it took me to model something that seems somewhat simple.