Twine Bowl (single- and multi-material)

It's a hanging basket!  And also there's a non-hanging version, too.  It's funny the things that inspire us.  Sometimes there's a long and abstract chain of creative thought that leads to some unlikely place.  Other times, there's a hanging basket that makes you think "hey, it would be fun to make a hanging basket!"

I tend to stylise things and really like working out what the essential elements are that make something look like the thing that it is, and this was a good exercise in that.  Swirly lines and curvy forms, adjusted just enough from the realities of twisted string to be neatly printable, without little overhangs or drooping bits that are so easy to accidentally cause when doing textured features on an angle.  

Oh, and they kind of stack, sort of, at least the ones without the hangers do :)

Print Description

This is a regular mode print designed for straightforward printing!  Infill won't matter too much, but it also won't add much to the print time, so feel free to ramp it up a bit :)

Print Dimensions

Both versions of the Twine Bowl occupy 79mm x 76mm on the print bed.  The version with the hanger is 113mm tall, while the version without is 47mm tall.

Supports needed?

No supports needed!

Scalability

This one will scale happily up or down :)

Multimaterial Version

There are files provided for multimaterial printing of both versions of the Twine Bowl, and I'll assume that if you have that capability then you already know what you need to do with the files!  My multimaterial prints all failed due to hardware problems, so here's a render instead...

Print Orientation

Both versions of the Twine bowl print right-way-up, like so:

File location 

You'll find this one at at 650 Twine Bowl

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

Further Thoughts

Filaments used in these photos: Polymaker PolyTerra matte PLA.

This was originally a much smaller model, down around the size of those little skull jars from a while back, but the texture of swirly string worked so much better at this scale.  It's still hardly huge, of course!  That said, there's nothing stopping you from just scaling it down anyway!

Happy printing :)

xoxo

Sven.