Here’s the final purse charm, taken from a design on my computer, printed with a $400 3D printer, cast in silver, and then cleaned up and finished:

The charm installed!

This, from a design I created:

The purse charm as it is being designed on the computer

If you want to see the whole process of creating this, you can start at Part 1 and read forward from there.

It’s pretty amazing that on a home computer you can design something and take it all the way to a final form!  There is a real revolution in manufacturing coming with the advent of cheap 3D printers…

Some additional views:

The purse charm + the purse

The final purse charm by itself