Wicker Concentric Vase: A Tale of Two Vases part 1/2 (Patreon)

Howdy, wonderful people!

It's a vase, I think!  Do vases need to hold water?  That could be problematic on this one.  What this does have, though, is an inner that rotates freely inside the outer!  If this looks vaguely reminiscent of the stuff I was working on in late 2019, there's a reason for it...

Brains are strange things.  I had had a version of this model sitting around for about a year, since about the time I was working on the Swipe Flask, in fact, when I was caught up in internally-rotating stuff.  I could have sworn I'd posted it up, but nope, I had not!  When I realised that recently, I picked up the printed version I've had sitting around, and looked at it carefully.  

You see, I love the shapes involved, but a year is a long time, and the way I designed things back then is not quite the way I would do it now.  Some adjustments were needed!

Most of the consideration was around printability.  The original version had the outside form in contact with the bed by only a thin circular strip, so that was thickened up, reducing the size of the centre contact area accordingly.  

The gap between the parts was widened at the bottom, too, to avoid first layer issues binding the two sections together.  There were also some questionable angles at the base of the model, but those were addressed when the base was reshaped for looks alone.  Overall, much better than the original!

Printing Tips

Designed for straightforward printing, no supports needed.  However, make sure you don't have any print artifacts like stringing or overextrusion that might bind moving parts together!

The vase prints base-down, like so:

File Location

You'll find this on Dropbox under 773 Wicker Concentric Vase

(Dropbox link post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-and-are-31697592 )

Further Thoughts

This one really did spark some further thoughts, specifically how close I could get to something like this layered style using vase mode... part 2 for how that worked out will be up momentarily! :)

xoxo

Sven.