Hidden Hex Stacky Vase Box (Patreon)

Hey there, wonderful people!

This one has been on my to-do list for way too long: simple, stacking cube organising boxes in vase mode!  But, of course, I had to find a way to make it more interesting along the way :)

There are some recurring themes in the vase mode stuff I do, and one of those is the idea of having an interior that's different to the exterior.  Sometimes that's a purely functional thing, like the threaded vase mode containers, but in this case it was mostly to have a different texture pattern on the inside to the outside.  The outside has vertical strips, and the inside has hexagons.  If you hold it up to the light and have it printed in something translucent, you'll see that the textures match up with each other in a neat and ordered way, too!

What the hexagons really provide, though, is rigidity.  Without those, the vertical strips would provide strength, but the whole thing would twist and bend far too readily.  Hexagons (the bestagons) save the day!  And look cool.

Print Description

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

Print Dimensions

The box occupies 50mm x 50mm on the print bed, and is 55mm tall

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This will scale easily, being vase mode!  The stackability might get a little compromised if you go too much smaller, of course.  

Print Orientation

As you might expect, this thing prints right-way-up, like so:

File Location

You'll find this one at at 618 Hidden Hex Stacky Vase Box

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

Further Thoughts

This one went through a bunch of versions along the way, but the only thing that really changed were the hexagons.  They got bigger, they got smaller, depths changed, but each version worked quite well from a structural perspective.  

What did change, though, was how the translucent versions looked when held up to the light.  When the hexagons were too small, they became noise.  When too large, they became angled stripes.  But spanning two vertical strips with one hexagon was just right :)

Happy printing!

xoxo 

Sven.