SeedSorter: A mesh sieve converter for Prusament spool

I wanted to grow my bee-friendly-area of my little apartment garden, so needed to get the seeds from the plants.

I needed to sort seeds from the dry plant residue and saw the empty spool in my workshop.

You can use it for whatever, I made an OpenSCAD file for making sieves with different hole diameters for you to try out.

It is inspired in function by something like this: Image of Sieves

Print instructions

I just want to get started

Print at the "Seedsorter_container.stl" and up to three Sieves of your choice. You should be able to fit 4 models in total on the plate. The Auto Arranger from the Prusa Slicer might put a tool path outside the print area, but I just moved the models a little closer together.

The print file that I've added is a container and three sieves, with 2, 4, and 6 mm size holes.

I chose to print with 5% infill and largest layer size for faster printing.

Once printed, mount the container in the bottom, then stack the sieves from smallest diameter (bottom) to largest (top).

Intended usage:
1: Add material you want sorted by size (on top)
2: Shakey Shakey
3: Dissassemble to extract sorted material at different levels.

I want to mess with the model

I've added the OpenSCAD file that I used for designing the models. I commented it quite a lot, so it should be straight forward to create new sieves. Just call the function "sieve", e.g. sieve(4) will make a sieve with a mesh hole diameter of 4mm.

To edit the bottom part, that I have used as a container, all code is in the container_bottom() module.