Candy Hearts Jar

Howdy, wonderful people!

If you suspect I made this model just for the sake of that texture you'd be entirely correct.  It's the same original heart profile as the Candy Hearts Vase Mode Gift Box, though it's not quite treated the same way.  The angles behind the hearts are much shallower in this model to accommodate the curve of the main body (which is actually a series of straight lines that approximates a curve).  the specifics of the tiling are also different, as the individual hearts fill space in a different way.  

This model did in fact start out as a vase mode adventure.  However, the angles that vase mode will accommodate while still remaining structurally viable are quite limited, and that precluded the angles that the hearts reach at the top and bottom of the jar.  It's not the main face of the heart that's the issue so much as the faces that sweep away from them, which are necessarily going to be steeper.  

I wasn't about to give up on my dream of curvy hearts, though, and so I reimplemented things as a more conventional print.

That lid went through a few different design iterations, though, initially being a vastly more complex hollowed-out dome full of struts and embossing, but at some point I realised the jar really just needed something clean and neat!

Print Description

This is a regular mode print.  While it's an assembly in that the lid screws into the main body, the tolerances are generous and shouldn't be too sensitive to print settings.  

Print Dimensions

The main body of the jar occupies 102mm x 102mm on the print bed and is 131mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

The main limitation on scaling will be the fit of the lid.  Scaling up won't be a big issue as the thread will take up the slack quite well, but scaling down could cause problems unless the lid is scaled down slightly more to accommodate.

Print Orientation

Both the main jar bod and the lid print right-way-up like so:

File Location

You'll find this one at at 604 Candy Hearts Jar

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

Being in a Valentines-ish frame of mind I did explore a similar design using cartoon skulls with heart-shaped eyes.  I loved the concept, but it just didn't end up quite as appealing, either visually or in terms of the tactile results.  I do feel like skulls with heart eyes are worth incorporating gratuitously into something, though...

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.