Upswept Bowl
Added 2022-03-14 14:47:28 +0000 UTCHowdy, wonderful people!
Many a design has crossed my path and been adorned with hexagons, but usually they're very neat. Precise. Orderly.
The distorted honeycomb here is an intentional departure from that, but remains just as printable as ever, despite those shallow outline angles, and despite the fact that the hexagon mesh is not at all flat, and is instead contained within a spherical shell. All those shallow angles are supported by nice 45-degree angled walls, so there's no difficulty in this print at all.
Print Description
Regular mode print! No supports required. Infill percentage doesn't really matter, since it's mostly perimeter, so infill will really only affect how solid the base feels. I used 20%
Print Dimensions
The main bowl 180mm x 180mm on the bed and 59mm tall.
Supports needed?
No supports required!
Scalability
Easily scalable! There's a 0.5mm tolerance between the bowl and the lid, so if you scale it down significantly you might want to scale the lid every so slightly more so that a reasonable gap is maintained.
Print Orientation
Both parts print right-way-up.
File location
You'll find this one on Dropbox at 681 Upswept Bowl
Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592
Further Thoughts
I really like the look of those stretched out hexagons at the base of the bowl - I must find another use for that style! It looks like some kind of industrial buttressing - how can I work that into a box? :)
xoxo
Sven.
