New Years morning. Quickly open the fridge to find something for breakfast only to do it too quickly, ejecting a leftover gin and tonic all over the kitchen floor.
Breakfast time gives you time to reflect on lifes choices and this is the moment that I realised I had the necessary technology to remedy my problem.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/390991577854405227.jpg)
Lucky for me the top half survived, thats the part that touched your mouth and keeps all the contents nice. Something a PLA print would not be able to accomplish.
I set about looking for my vernier calipers, only to realise that I didn't own any. So a crappy plastic ruler and my eye-crometers would have to suffice.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/9512601577854510969.jpg)
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/2129241577854511240.jpg)
Good enough, I was going to round all those numbers anyway.
Time to draw a picture. Open up Fusion 360 and get cracking.
My first sketches were of the entire piece as one, but this would be a 10+ hour print with the amount of overhangs...
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3033811577854653968.png)
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/5965591577854654441.png)
Better split that in two.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/5111871577854725292.png)
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3342511577854725399.png)
Next update in 4 hours hopefully.
Trial period on my geometry guessing unit must have elapsed. Why did I think that would work? I had many hours of sleep.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3959611577930136010.jpg)
Also the 3D print wasn't happy with the 30deg angle of attack here, that and the minimal infill I used.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/362601577930223089.jpg)
Back to the drawing board.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/4971231577930087082.jpg)
Only a 1.5 hour print this time, and a bit of superglue later:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/994091577945252091.jpg)
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/8222151577945262989.jpg)
Contact area looks decent.
And now I have a slightly taller, plastic-ier glass to use when guests are around.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/951841577945309034.jpg)
So, a prosthetic leg for a wine glass?