I recently got married and decided to design my own ring. I was originally shopping for a wedding ring, but I couldn't find one that appealed to me. The look I was going for something for that was on the thinner side with some detail like a hammered or faceted finish. The first design I came up with was a hammered look using Meshmixer to simplify the mesh on a plain band design. I then 3D printed in nylon to test fit and appearance. Unfortunately after see the print, I realized the edges on all the flats got too smoothed over when polished and the ring did not look as cool as the model looked to me.
I then came up with an idea to utilize the date of the wedding to create the facets. There are 7 facets on an angle on each side and 18 facets on the outside. With the odd number of facets meeting the even number, it makes each facet a bit different from the others and gives me the randomness that I was looking for.
The ring was design in Autodesk Fusion360 and 3D printed and cast by
Shapeways out of rhodium plated gold.
