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3D Printed Glasses Case

I recently printed this nice Flexi glasses case from user @rorys3D on Printables. I was looking for a nice case for some cool glacier glasses I got recently and this design fit the bill. It's a single-piece, print-in-place living hinge design, so despite its curved and mostly-hollow shape it is very easy to print.

I think it's designed for smaller reading glasses, so I scaled up the X and Z dimensions by 150% to fit my glasses. The width of the case was fine, so I didn't rescale the width axis (Y axis in this case) at all. The Printables page strongly recommends scaling up those two axes (X & Z) together to ensure all the hinges and snap mechanisms still work, and in my case they did!

I printed the file in gray PETG on a Prusa MK4S at the MIT Metropolis makerspace, which took about 8 hours with this material and the settings recommended on the Printables page (3 perimeters, 0.2 mm layer height).

Here's how it came out!

The file prints flat in a single piece:
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It looks like I estimated the 150% scaling pretty well! I maybe could have gone with 140% scaling instead but this is a fine fit.
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The bottom hinge snaps really firmly into the sides of the case. There's a really nice snap sound when this snaps together. I had to push pretty hard to get the snaps to engage on both sides so I feel confident that it they'll hold:
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Here's how the case looks with the bottom hinge folded over and both snaps in place:
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The top hinge also folds over and latches in place nicely, although this latching mechanism is intended to be closed and reopened repeatedly (unlike the snaps for the bottom hinge).
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Here's the case with the classes inside! I'm taking these on a trip soon so I'll get to see how well the case holds up.
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Based on a comment on the Printables page, I might add in a soft fabric interior with some spray-on adhesive in the future. The PETG doesn't feel too scratchy, but it'd be nice to have a a softer material on the inside to protect the lenses.