3D printed zori: DONE!

Sooo... I didn't like a few details of the sandal sole that I downloaded. The rear strap holes were too close together, and the wells for the straps were too shallow and conical in a weird way that kept me from attaching the straps the way I wanted to, SO...

I spent a day teaching myself Autodesk Fusion in order to model my own version of the soles so I could adjust them to my own tastes. Autodesk Fusion is TERRIBLE. It likes to make things disappear unexpectedly, and there can be unpredictable side effects whenever you press a button. It's like mystery meat navigation, except that the navigation interferes with your history, so you can't even go back to the page you can from properly. So the day spent learning it was mostly spent screaming "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??" at the computer.

But anyway, my girlfriend showed me how to sew my own straps out of a cheap fake-velvet material, which was a LOT more fun, and now part of me wants a sewing machine of my very own. TPU also makes for terrible traction, so I cut out treads and glued them to the 3D printed sole so I wouldn't, um, die.

So yeah! I 3D printed my own footwear! Except for the parts made out of a bunch of other materials. And really, making all the other parts by hand was the most fun I've had in awhile. The real world rules y'all!