multilayer summer sunglasses

What goes better with summer than sunglasses? I love multilayer designs, so I wanted to develop my own sunglasses with a summer design. How do I go about it? Find out and try it yourself!
 

1. You can find lots of ideas for such scenes on the Internet!
2. If you want to design something like this yourself, I recommend Sketchup Make as free software for 3D design. 
3. You then need to export a DXF file from the software, which you can easily import into XTool Creative Space.

To cut the pieces with your laser, follow these steps:
 

1. Adjust the size of the glasses if you actually want to wear them. If you are simply using them as decoration, you can leave the size as it is.

TIP 1: Measure the width of your sunglasses and then mark all parts and make them slightly larger, depending on what you have measured!

If you change the size significantly, you don't have to adjust anything on the layers, but you will have to adjust the tiny rectangles marked in red into which the side parts of the glasses are inserted.

TIP 2: You can of course also use the glasses without the side parts, in which case you could hang them on the wall as they are, for example. In this case, changing the size has no effect.

2. Insert 2mm wood (birch plywood) into your laser and adjust the height!

3. With the above parameters you can then cut 2mm Plywood!

4. If you just use the multilayer part, you can actually use any thickness for the wood!

This step gives your glasses a perfect high-contrast look! 

You could use spray paint or special wood colors (or maybe you already have an M1 Ultra and can print colors), but you can also make it relatively easy for yourself: Colored pencils!

Of course you are flexible in the colors, but for a nice sunset scene red, orange, yellow and for the silhouettes black are perfect colors. 

TIP: Color the parts before you glue them together! After that it will be a little more difficult to get everywhere.

This step will bring your scene to life! 

1. The individual parts are glued together with superglue. 
2. Make sure that they are always flush with each other at the edges! 
3. In the second picture, you can see the order in which the individual parts are glued on top of each other. 
4. If you have not adjusted the size of the glasses, the two side parts should fit perfectly into the small rectangular openings of layer number 1. 

And there you have your summery multilayer sunglasses!

You may not be the surfer type, but you love sunsets and summer! Then I've got something for you:
 

• With Sketchup you can change a scene as much as you like, so I've left out the people in a second design.
• I have attached a DXF file in the downloads which contains the modified part.
• Insert this in place of the marked part as shown in the second image and you'll have the same sunglasses, just without the surfers.

There's a little reward for scrolling down this far!
A glasses holder for your multilayer sunglasses! Or for your other glasses too! In Sketchup Make, I've designed a little rhino for you with a long nose to hold your glasses.

TIP: If you are creative, you can of course turn the holder into any other animal! The face can easily be exchanged in XTool Creative Space!

1. The holder consists of 4 parts. The two .XCS files for this are attached. 
2. The two body parts are glued together and connected with the nose (a little superglue should also be used here)
3. Then the rhino is inserted into the base plate and fixed with a little glue for safety. The glasses holder is finished!

Have fun building and using it!

And that is how it could look like!