The Finished Product
Remember that old classmate, Carol, who never wore her safety goggles? Even she would want to wear the PlaneSight Custom Fit Safety Goggles. Constructed from durable plastics and rubber seals, these aviation-inspired goggles protect against chemical spills while remaining comfortable, lightweight, and stylish. Lenses and frames are tailored to fit the contours of the human face, while a standard headband attaches to these frames magnetically.
Product Features
Product Features
- Comfortable custom fit protects against chemical splashes
- Two piece design allows lenses to be easily removed from headband
- Lightweight, durable construction
- Ventilation system keeps lenses from fogging
- Magnetically attached headband allows for easy removal
The finished product consists of two main parts. There is the main custom plastic goggle, which conforms to the user's face. There is also a standard elastic strap to keep the goggle on the user's face. This is shown in one of the images above, and consists of an elastic strap, two plastic clips to hold the elastic strap, and four powerful magnets press-fit into the clips to attach the strap to the goggle.
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How was it made?
First, a series of sketches were drawn in order to quickly generate ideas. These design ideas are shown in the slide show here.
In order to assist with concept generation and idea generation, I first sketched a side and isometric sketch of a human head. Copies of this drawing were made so that they could be used for each idea. This allowed for easy sketching of design ideas.
In order to create a digital model of the custom protective goggle design, my head was scanned and turned into a 3-D mesh that could be imported to CAD software. To get an accurate image, two shots of my head were merged together using MeshLab software.
After merging the meshes in MeshLab, reference geometry such as planes and axes were drawn on the 3D model of the mesh, which was imported into SolidWorks. Then, models of goggles were created on the 3D mesh. The picture below in the center shows an initial model that was made as an experiment to figure out the process of working with CAD modeling around the scanned mesh. The image below to the right is that of the PlaneSight aviation-inspired chemical splash goggle.
Unfortunately, this project is currently in the form of a CAD model. There is no actual physical prototype, however the intent of some of the visuals on this page are to be able to create an virtual image of what would be produced should it turn into an actual prototype in the future. This here shows some of the modeling process, and a rough mock-up of the envisioned product is shown both through CAD and through sketches near the top of this page.