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Engineering — ME 227 Design for Additive Manufacturing · Winter 2026

3D Printed Glasses Frames

Sebastian Esteva  ·  Stanford University  ·  Biomechanical Engineering

I designed a pair of glasses to fit my own face, then tried to replace the traditional 4-piece metal hinge with one printed in two materials at once — rigid PLA for the frame, flexible TPU for the hinge, bonded by geometry alone.

Key topics: multi-material 3D printing · PLA/TPU hinge · print-in-place · Bambu Lab · custom eyeglasses · Fusion 360

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