Candy Hearts Vase Mode Gift Box with Lid

Hey there, wonderful people!

Sometimes I really just get caught up in a texture or a pattern, and that will be obvious when you see the post after this one, as it uses the same heart shape, but patterned differently.  I just really liked the heart shape!  It's  not just the visual appeal, though, but also the tactile results of printing these embossed figures.

It does look nice, too, though - time to break out the shiny filaments!

But anyway, what is this model?  Well, it's a large-ish hexagonal box intended for quick vase mode printing.  There's also a lid that fits on top neatly.  It's intended for 0.4mm line width, but there's a bit of tolerance built in to that to allow for it to be a little wider.  

The tricky thing with vase mode prints that fit into each other is that the inner and outer profile dimensions are related by the print settings, so the actual internal size will change if you use a much larger nozzle, and you'd need to start experimenting with scaling the lid to fit!

Print Description

This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly!

The lid and box print separately, as you'd expect with vase mode.

Print Dimensions

The box occupies 138mm x 158mm on the print bed and is 145mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This model will scale easily, but the fit of the lid will be impacted at some point.  That said, you could certainly scale the lid separately to accommodate that, though it might take some trial and error to find what works for your specific print settings.

Print Orientation

The box body prints right-side-up and the lid prints upside-down, like so:

File Location

You'll find this one at at 603 Candy Hearts Vase Mode Gift Box

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

Further Thoughts

You might have noticed the cool print effect on the lid - that's actually just the result of choosing a particular bottom layer pattern in the slicer and using a graduated filament.  That was entirely inspired by one of the cool people in the discord channel who had done exactly that and it looked amazing!

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.