Hexapumpkin

I'm sure you'll agree if that if there's one thing that's largely neglected in Halloween celebrations, it's hexagons! But together we can make the world a better place for hexagonal festivities, one dodecahedral pumpkin at a time!

How do you make a dodecahedron look like a pumpkin, though? Well, obviously printing it in orange is a good start, but this one all came down to the lid design! While the lid is still full of hexagonal features, it does have a set of gentle bumps that convey a nice pumpkin-ish contour. And, of course, the stalk helps a great deal, as well as serving as a lid.

An early version of the main body also had bumpy contours, but it really wasn't much different in terms of looking more pumpkin-y. And, I missed the flat faces of the dodecahedral shape, too. The clincher was that it made a big difference to print time, especially at full size, and so the flat faces won that battle.

The stalk is printed separately to the lid, and a bolt from underneath fastens it in place. You can position it in any of five different directions... but the lid is radially symmetric anyway :P

Print Description

This is a collection of parts printed as regular mode prints. There's nothing tricky in any of it, but make sure the threaded bits print cleanly so that the parts can assemble easily.

Print Dimensions

The main pumpkin body is 215mm x 205mm on the print bed, and 114mm tall

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing! Even the faces on the hexagonal texture are angled for easy printing!

Scalability

This one will scale readily! The stalk thread is nice and coarse, which will allow for quite a bit of scaling down. Scaling up... will require a fairly large printer :)

Print Orientation

All the parts print right-way-up!

Further Thoughts

One handy thing to note is that the lid will actually fit in place upside-down, too, which can be handy if you're moving a collection of hexapumpkins around :)

Spooky printing!

xoxo

Sven.

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