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Wicker Concentric Vase: A Tale of Two Vases part 1/2
🕑 Added 2021-02-22 14:37:47 +0000 UTCHowdy, wonderful people!
It's a vase, I think! Do vases need to hold water? That could be problematic on this one. What this does have, though, is an inner that rotates freely inside the outer! If this looks vaguely reminiscent of the stuff I was working on in late 2019, there's a reason for it...
Brains are strange things. I had had a version of this model sitting around for about a year, since about the time I was working on the Swipe Flask, in fact, when I was caught up in internally-rotating stuff. I could have sworn I'd posted it up, but nope, I had not! When I realised that recently, I picked up the printed version I've had sitting around, and looked at it carefully.
You see, I love the shapes involved, but a year is a long time, and the way I designed things back then is not quite the way I would do it now. Some adjustments were needed!
Most of the consideration was around printability. The original version had the outside form in contact with the bed by only a thin circular strip, so that was thickened up, reducing the size of the centre contact area accordingly.
The gap between the parts was widened at the bottom, too, to avoid first layer issues binding the two sections together. There were also some questionable angles at the base of the model, but those were addressed when the base was reshaped for looks alone. Overall, much better than the original!
Printing Tips
Designed for straightforward printing, no supports needed. However, make sure you don't have any print artifacts like stringing or overextrusion that might bind moving parts together!
The vase prints base-down, like so:
File Location
You'll find this on Dropbox under 773 Wicker Concentric Vase
(Dropbox link post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-and-are-31697592 )
Further Thoughts
This one really did spark some further thoughts, specifically how close I could get to something like this layered style using vase mode... part 2 for how that worked out will be up momentarily! :)
xoxo
Sven.
Comments
Clockspring3D
Hmm, I think the best suggestion I can give is to slow the print way down. Tall, skinny pieces that wobble are the toughest thing to print well since any movement is either going to make things messy or cause the print to fail entirely! There's a print advice and troubleshooting channel on the discord that might be worth posting in, to see if anyone else has solved this problem...
Luis Albero
Any special tip to print this ? I have an Ender 3 Pro and a CR10V2, both well tunned, dual metal extruder, steps perfectly, etc, etc. I have over 1300 prints (@lcalbero at instagram) but this one I am failing and very sad because I loved the model !
Luis Albero
I just joined your patreon and started printing everything ! This one I already missed two times, more than 10 hours print. When it gets high, like 8-10 cm, some of the external pieces tend to move a little when the hotend travels, even using z-hop. As the parts are kind of thin and dont connect to the inner piece, I see them moving, a little blob created, next layer I head a crash and in more 2 or 3 layers I saw the x or y missaligned and then it got ugly. It can finish the print, but not smooth anymore.
Clockspring3D
That's eSun PLA+ in Bone White
Sven, what filament is that vase printed in?
Clockspring3D
Haha, that's wonderful! :D Your print is much nicer than mine, too. I might have to print another one in a fancier filament than the "bone white" I used...
Cathy O'Malley
I love this model. I printed it before reading the description and thought wouldn't be great it it would spin. Doh
Clockspring3D
Bwahahaha! 😁
Oh you mad man!
