Mariner Vase (Patreon)

Hey there, wonderful people!

There really aren't enough designs out there that are specifically intended for transparent filaments!  Plenty of designs do well when printed in transparent materials, but this one really does require it in order to reveal its mysteries!

The outside surface of this vase mode print is a series of smooth, curved segments, but the inside has sweeping organic shapes and detail that isn't reflected on the outside at all.  So, depending on the filament and the light either the outer form or the inner detail could be more prominent.

From a technical point of view, the Mariner Vase is kind of similar to the Swirly-Whirly Egg, in that there are two profiles, inner and outer, that are formed by sweeping back and forth using intermediate lines.  However, where the egg had a multitude of those intermediates the Mariner Vase has only a few.  The approach is the same, though, and allows the vase mode design to effectively have different interior and exterior profiles.

Unlike that model, though, the different profiles here are for visual effect, rather than a mechanical purpose!

Printing Tips

This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly!  There shouldn't be anything overly tricky here - all the angles are sensibly printable.  The design is intended for a 0.4mm nozzle, and it's up to you what layer height you use!  But hey, it's vase mode, it's quick to experiment with different settings :)

Orientation is base-down, as you'd expect:

File Location

You'll find this on dropbox under 761 Mariner Vase

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

Further Thoughts

I'm excited to see what effect different filaments have on the Mariner Vase!  I really appreciate all the awesome posts on Twitter and Instagram, and try to catch them all, but I do miss things all the time in the sea of noise that is social media :)  I do see everything that's posted on Discord, though, and there's a very friendly crowd in there!

 xoxo

Sven.