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Eyeglass Case Padding Redux

Confronted with a nice metal eyeglass case that had lost its original liner, I traced the outline on paper and scanned it:

Metal case outline
Metal case outline

Unlike the plastic Zenni cases, this one has nice straight edges, so:

  • Eyeball a LightBurn rectangle over the traced image
  • Round the corners to suit
  • Shrink it by a few millimeters to make it fit inside

Then:

  • Add a perimeter line offset by the 6 mm required to cover the sides
  • Draw a dart in each corner to allow for bending the foam
  • Set the perimeter priority to 1 so it cuts last
  • Put the original outline to a tool layer to remind me how to do this the next time around

Which looks like this:

Metal case pad - LightBurn layout
Metal case pad – LightBurn layout

Then Fire The Laser into a sheet of EVA foam:

Metal eyeglass case - padding cut
Metal eyeglass case – padding cut

Stuff it into the case, do another one in brown, and the result looks kinda like it should:

Metal eyeglass case - padding installed
Metal eyeglass case – padding installed

That was easy …