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Mariner Vase
🕑 Added 2021-04-11 14:36:25 +0000 UTCHey there, wonderful people!
There really aren't enough designs out there that are specifically intended for transparent filaments! Plenty of designs do well when printed in transparent materials, but this one really does require it in order to reveal its mysteries!
The outside surface of this vase mode print is a series of smooth, curved segments, but the inside has sweeping organic shapes and detail that isn't reflected on the outside at all. So, depending on the filament and the light either the outer form or the inner detail could be more prominent.
From a technical point of view, the Mariner Vase is kind of similar to the Swirly-Whirly Egg, in that there are two profiles, inner and outer, that are formed by sweeping back and forth using intermediate lines. However, where the egg had a multitude of those intermediates the Mariner Vase has only a few. The approach is the same, though, and allows the vase mode design to effectively have different interior and exterior profiles.
Unlike that model, though, the different profiles here are for visual effect, rather than a mechanical purpose!
Printing Tips
This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly! There shouldn't be anything overly tricky here - all the angles are sensibly printable. The design is intended for a 0.4mm nozzle, and it's up to you what layer height you use! But hey, it's vase mode, it's quick to experiment with different settings :)
Orientation is base-down, as you'd expect:
File Location
You'll find this on dropbox under 761 Mariner Vase
(Dropbox link post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-and-are-31697592 )
Further Thoughts
I'm excited to see what effect different filaments have on the Mariner Vase! I really appreciate all the awesome posts on Twitter and Instagram, and try to catch them all, but I do miss things all the time in the sea of noise that is social media :) I do see everything that's posted on Discord, though, and there's a very friendly crowd in there!
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
Clockspring3D
Unfortunately, this design was constructed in such a way that the patterns only work on the inside :(
Peter Laucella
Can you upload this so that the design be on the outside and not just on the inside? Thanks
Clockspring3D
I appreciate the update, thank you! It's weird behaviour, though, and I share your suspicions about how it might affect the print overall...
Sparkss
So in my testing I found the setting in S3D that was causing the issue, however I am unsure how setting it to the required value will affect the overall print. On the Layer tab, in addition to setting Vase Mode, I had to change my Top Solid Layers to 0. That sliced and produced a gcode that looked like what we need/want. I hope that helps. I have not printed using that newly generated gcode since I already have one of these printed using Cura.
Clockspring3D
It's so weird! S3D just doesn't like it, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the mesh itself that my repair tools can see, so I figure it just be some aspect of the geometry? I do wonder if it's related to the very small space between the two "walls" that's tripping it up, but that's tricky to test in isolation. I'm glad it worked fine in Cura, but I'd still ideally like to know what's going wrong with S3D so I can avoid it in future! :)
Sparkss
I downloaded and installed the latest Cura and was able to slice/print this. Just odd that Simplify3D wouldn't slice it properly. Anyone else using S3D that was able to slice it? What settings did you use? I just wonder if there was a "mesh repair" setting that I am overlooking that is causing the issue with S3D.
Sparkss
Ditto (and also Simplify3D), unprintable :(
simplify3d, its on the inside on top of the bottom like a second bottom
Clockspring3D
The main thing to remember is that this is a vase mode print, so you'll need to have that enabled - which slicer are you using?
the model looks not goot when i open it :(
Clockspring3D
Haha, awesome, I'm glad it worked out! :D
Clockspring3D
I use stock slicer settings (in this case for a Prusa Mini) and 0.2mm layers
What layer hight and line wideness do you use?
Filament Stories
I accept your translucent vase mode print challenge. Brilliant, beautiful, blithesome.
