Design

These two parametrically designed vases can be printed and used as home decor elements to enrich your interior. While you can print these vases separately, they look and feel best when placed together. Sharing same design language, fluid curves and angled top orientations helped to create a feeling that they are deeply connected. Strongly expressed vertical pattern limits the exposure of horizontal printing layers, so even if your printer is a little off they should still look gorgeos in naturally lit up environments.

Composition

When rotating vases change proportions. Based on your preference you can make either the base or the middle to be the widest place of the model. This allows various compositions to be created.

Size

The larger the better. We have printed them on the Sidewinder X1 3D printer from Artillery. The larger vase seen in the preview pictures is around 380mm high and 130mm wide, while the smaller is 310mm high and 130mm wide. Prints were done in one go with gcode generated through Cura slicer. If you will print smaller vases they should still look good, but we have not tried that. Be aware that when reaching higher levels vibrations can cause some small sideffects.

Settings

We used 0.2mm layer height and white PLA plastic. Printer was set up to print in 40mm/s speed, but we reduced that by 10% manually when reaching higher levels. For large vertical prints we always create 3cm Brim so that vibrations would be smaller when reaching higher altitudes. Having printer with heavy base like Sidewinder also helps. We did not use supports for this model, only 15% infills for overhangs of 40 degrees.