Rippledrop Vase

Howdy, wonderful people!

I love working out ways to make vase mode do interesting things, and one of my favourite interesting things to make it do is give the impression of distinct shapes and layers overlapping each other.  

So, I started out by making bowls with raindrops.  The raindrops became diamonds, and the bowls became cylinders, and at some point I decided I'd lost my way.  Cylinders just weren't what I wanted (especially since I was also working on another non-vase-mode cylindrical model that you might have already seen just now in an adjacent post), so I pulled it all apart and shaped up a more traditional vase form.

The diamonds didn't entirely disappear, though, and instead merged with the drops in a kind of angular way, slicing their way down the vase and sectioning the outer shell into rippled fragments.  The result was good!  Of course, there was still the matter of making it all properly printable in vase mode, which mostly involved tidying up a multitude of little transitional bits internally so they grew nicely on forty-five degree angles instead of magically appearing as unsupported horizontal lines. 

Print Description

This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly!  I printed with a 0.4mm nozzle but set line width to 0.6mm for a little extra robustness.

Print Dimensions

The default size of the Rippledrop Vase is 140mm x 140mm on the print bed and 200mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

It's vase mode, and it'll scale nicely up or down!  The top photo shows prints at 100% and 50% of model size.

Print Orientation

As you'd expect for a vase mode print, it prints right-way-up.

Further Thoughts

I'm always struck by how much rigidity the features of a vase mode print can give it.  The valleys between the outer features and the cut-ins behind the rippled plates add enormously to the strength of the thing.  Actually, it would be really interesting to make a series of vases that differ only in how much detail there is to provide strength and rigidity!  I'll add that to the ever-growing to-do list :D 

Happy printing!

xoxo Sven.

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580 Rippledrop Vase