Sprocket Column Vase (Patreon)

Cogs and vase mode!  These cogs and rack gears, while faithfully based on legitimate gear profiles, are forever locked into place by their vase-mode-ish-ness.  Gears just look cool, though, and I'd been meaning to try to work them into a vase design forever!

This one went though a bunch of different concepts before it ended up in its final triangular prism shape.  The cogs were twisted around a cylinder (boy did that look silly), and tiled around a hexagonal prism (not bad), but the slender, tall form we have here really made the cogs the most obvious element, as they should be.  Besides, the sharp angles really do give a stark, industrial feel, and I always love that! 

Print Description

This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly!

Print Dimensions

The Sprocket Column Vase can be scaled to whatever size you like, but by default it's 84mm x 73mm on the print bed and 179mm tall.

Supports needed?

No supports required!  It's vase mode!

Scalability

The Sprocket Column Vase will scale happily, as most vase mode models tend to!

Print Orientation

Being a vase mode print, the Sprocket Column Vase prints right-way-up, like so:

File location You'll find this one at at 657 Sprocket Column Vase

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

Hmm, I wonder if there could be some hybrid between this concept and the Arboreal Vase that might allow the cogs to be visually separate from the rack gears down the sides?  The big problem is keeping the angles neat - no horizontal planes allowed!  Still, that would be cool...

Happy sprocketing! :)

xoxo

Sven.