Waffle Cone!

Howdy, wonderful people!

Yes, more questionable food choices rendered in printed form! This time, it's the classic kind of waffle cone that you'd find in the freezer section, and which Wikipedia informs me was a difficult product to make until some clever person thought of coating the inside of the cone with sugar, oil and chocolate to stave off sogginess during storage. What an age we live in! Okay, that was actually some time ago, and now we have 3D printers, so this age is still pretty great!

The ice cream bit threads into the cone and the two parts meet to form a flush-fitting, continuous cone shape, which was the trickiest part of this design. The issue is that printing two elements that meet at the edges (without supports) means that there can't be anything protruding below those edges on either design.

Fortunately, this model was already going to be an assembly of multicoloured bits, so I made use of that to incorporate an additional threaded part that could interface with the cone.

So, assembling the ice cream! One thing that you'll want to take note of is that when you're putting the topping bit into the ice cream there are two possible orientations, and only one of them is going to work. As you'll see in the photos there are three circular indentations that are formed by both the ice cream and the topping. You want the orientation that produces that, or else the pins that need to stick into that holes are not going to be very happy.

Once those bits are properly aligned you'll be able to add the lower topping layer, poke the pin plate through that and into the ice cream, and then add the bolt that holds it all together.

Print Description

This is an assembly of parts, so make sure there aren't any print issues that might impede parts fitting together, especially when it comes to threads.

Print Dimensions

The cone itself is 47mm x 47mm on the print bed and 106mm tall.

Supports Needed? 

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This one should scale reasonably well, though you might find it useful to scale the topping pieces and the bolt slightly larger (for scaling up) than the other pieces in order to maintain good fit as tolerances scale up.

Print Orientation

The cone and the lower topping piece print upside-down, while the rest print right-way up.

Further Thoughts

My favourite part of this one was modelling that subtle overlap in the cone! It's only a small thing, but it made a huge difference to its waffliness :)

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.

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499 Waffle Cone