MALLA | nut bowl

MALLA | nut bowl

Spin. Crack. Snack. Repeat.

Built for organized human squirrels.

This double-decker bowl keeps your stash of nuts in motion, with rotating plates and a central hideout for your nutcrackers.

DIMENSIONS (bottom plate) Ø209mm H 40mm
DIMENSIONS (top plate) Ø209mm H 30mm

3D PRINT SETTINGS:

All STL files are already oriented properly.
You need to print 4 parts:
• a bottom plate
• a top plate
• a cylinder
• an optional divider, if you want your nutcrackers to stand more upright.

THE PLATES & CYLINDER
• Set the layer height to 0.3mm for a 0.4mm nozzle, or 0.4mm for a 0.8mm nozzle.
(0.2mm would also work but much slower).

The items in the pictures were printed with a 0.8mm nozzle, 2 perimeter lines. But you can also print with a 0.4mm nozzle, in which case you'll get 4 perimeter lines.

On the 3D model, the bottom face of the plates appear full.
That's normal.
To achieve the woven pattern of those faces you have to:
• turn off the top and bottom layers (set to 0)
• pick an infill pattern of your choice (gyroid pattern on the pictures)
• On top of that, for 0.4mm nozzles, push the "infill line width" (sparse infill and internal infill) to 0.6mm to make the weave of the front face nice and strong
• Set the infill to about 35% for a 0.8mm nozzle, and about 30% for a 0.4mm nozzle with 0.6mm infill line width.

Layer height: 0.3 mm
Top layers: 0
Bottom layers: 0
Infill pattern: gyroid 30 to 35%
Infill line width: 0.6 to 0.8mm
Infill-wall overlap: 50%
Build adhesion type: None
Supports: None

For Bambu Lab users, make sure to:
- turn OFF "slow down for overhangs"
- set "wall generator" to "arachne".

DIVIDER
Go with any settings you like.
I printed mine in "vase (spiral) mode to save time.
But you can print it full with default print settings.

Happy printing!