A simple vase-mode ball ornament, with a built-in hole for a hanger thread. The top and bottom are conical to make it printable.
Unfortunately there is a small wrinkle on one side (where the .STL file meets vase mode?); haven't figured that out yet.
The .3mf file has G-codes added to turn my MC fan on and off.
As sliced in the .3mf, uses 10.51 g filament. 0.4 nozzle, PLA, Cool plate.
Printing directions are important:
- Requires a line width enough larger than the layer height that the vase layer lines have sufficient overlap when printing at shallow angles. With the settings below, it seems to be sufficiently strong IF you let the print cool before prying it off the build plate.
- Adaptive or small layer height; the .3mf file setting is 0.2mm adaptive.
- I used a 0.4 mm nozzle and 0.8 mm line width. If these turn out to be too fragile (seem OK so far), planning to try a 0.6 or 0.8 nozzle, 1.0mm lines, and forcing the slicer to NOT increase the layer height.
- Hanger end down, and print that end conventionally by setting the bottom shell layers to 28, or high enough that conventional printing closes and covers the hanger hole before switching to vase mode.
- 5mm brim.
- Print slow. For a Bambu P1P, I used 100 mm/s for outer wall, first layer 50 mm/s. Overhang speeds reduced: 50 mm/s, 30 mm/s, 10 mm/s.
- The tri-color filament turned out to be very hard and slick, and my (dual gear) extruder had difficulty gripping it well enough to both push it through the hot end AND rotate a 1kg spool in the particular setup. An AMS may solve this, or otherwise relieving filament feed tension.
Designed in OnShape.
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The author remixed this model.
Differences of the remix compared to the original
Copied (and modified) the base with hanging hole and worked out how to print from this model.