I'm completely new to 3D printing, so please excuse the probably beginner question.
I tried printing this but it just printed as a sold block. What am I doing wrong?
I just grab the file and put it into Cura to print. I really don't know any of the setting I should tinkering with
Hi, awesome design. Could you look at the settings of shared fusion360 file? Right now it doesn't allow for downloading. I'd like to experiment with height.
In prusa slicer, I set:
Infill: 0%
bottom solid layers: 3
layer height: 0.25
perimeters: 1
top solid layers: 0
I print with a 0.4 nozzle, it takes 45 min to print but I see someone posted a picture and claimed to have it printed in 13 min.
How is it possible? What I missing?
One possibility is to simply set it to print more bottom layers. Eg. in PrusaSlicer, setting "Horizontal Shells / Solid Layers / Bottom" to 19 will make it seemingly work. Problem is, that's maybe a bit excessive with regards to how solid the bottom needs to be. It will still come out using less material than the solid alternative.
Alternative would be to start this model at layer 19 and print it in vase mode, then have a separate model for the bottom section, printed with infill, and glue them together.
I just weighed one and compared to a "normal" bin of the same size, the vase mode is 1/3 the weight.
Meaning it used 1/3 of the filament. You could get three of these for the consumables of one regular bin.
This is very well done!! I love a lot of the features of the "original" containers, but this is great for when you want a large number of cheap and quickly printed boxes.
A few features that would further make this incredible. Just for inspiration :-)
Glue-on bottom: Would open up for the possibility of magnets in the base, or even multi-cell containers!
Half- or third sized containers.
Pro tip: using PrusaSlicer and sequential printing, I'm able to print four of these at a time on my Prusa Mini (180x180).
Also, not that I don't appreciate the effort, but if you could add some STEP-files, making some derived versions of this would be real easy!
Thanks!. Yeah I've managed to do the sequential print too. A bit sketchy the first time around but once you have the spacing sorted it's full speed ahead. I'm doing 6 in around an hour (not on a Prusa though)
Try the new Cura 5.0 - it has a lot of changes for combining small things optimally. I just printed this on an ender3 in PLA+ with a 0.4mm nozzle, line width 0.6mm and layer height of 0.2mm. Print speed was 100mm/s
My only whinge is that I can't print a whole bed full of these at once because vase mode ("spiralise outer contour") doesn't do multiple pieces, and they're too tall for "one at a time" mode.
It may be something to do with small gaps. I'm not that familiar with Cura but the gap for the split model is 0.1mm. I suspect the slicer is ignoring that gap as a side effect of trying to "fix" broken STLs.
Discussions — #gridfinity Vase Mode Single Box
I'm completely new to 3D printing, so please excuse the probably beginner question. I tried printing this but it just printed as a sold block. What am I doing wrong? I just grab the file and put it into Cura to print. I really don't know any of the setting I should tinkering with
You should enable Vase mode in Cura. Be aware to disable it after print.
Hi, awesome design. The link for the fusion360 file is view only. Can you fix it? Thank's
Sorry that's a paid feature but if you hit download all, the f3d file is in there now.
What are the advantage of the curved back? Easier to lift it up?
Easier to pour stuff out, no lip.
Hi, awesome design. Could you look at the settings of shared fusion360 file? Right now it doesn't allow for downloading. I'd like to experiment with height.
Sorry that's a paid feature but if you hit download all, the f3d file is in there now.
You have remixes disabled on this model, would you consider updating that? I'd like to upload a double wide box version!
I'm new to 3D printing and I'm struggling.
In prusa slicer, I set: Infill: 0% bottom solid layers: 3 layer height: 0.25 perimeters: 1 top solid layers: 0
I print with a 0.4 nozzle, it takes 45 min to print but I see someone posted a picture and claimed to have it printed in 13 min. How is it possible? What I missing?
I just printed 11, while watching a movie, and I ran them off with a 0.6 mm nozzle, and 0.3 mm layer height at 125 mm/s and I got like 15 min/bin.
unfortunately the fusion link just links back to your thangs.com profile :( would love to play with the actual fusion file
Fixed it!
I had a crack at making a 1x2 https://www.tinkercad.com/things/70cJVfpobkL-1x2x77-vase-mode-fourth-method (okay I had four goes)
It seems mostly okay - main prob is that vase mode won't cap the ridge across the floor. Any thoughts ?
One possibility is to simply set it to print more bottom layers. Eg. in PrusaSlicer, setting "Horizontal Shells / Solid Layers / Bottom" to 19 will make it seemingly work. Problem is, that's maybe a bit excessive with regards to how solid the bottom needs to be. It will still come out using less material than the solid alternative.
Alternative would be to start this model at layer 19 and print it in vase mode, then have a separate model for the bottom section, printed with infill, and glue them together.
I just weighed one and compared to a "normal" bin of the same size, the vase mode is 1/3 the weight. Meaning it used 1/3 of the filament. You could get three of these for the consumables of one regular bin.
This is awesome! Can you please add some more versions in different heights? I specifically need x11 high, or 77mm because that's my drawer's space.
This is my first time doing a "vase print" and it worked well, after tweaking settings for line width etc. Great learning experience.
Fusion file now linked, see the update in the description. So you can play with the height.
This is very well done!! I love a lot of the features of the "original" containers, but this is great for when you want a large number of cheap and quickly printed boxes.
A few features that would further make this incredible. Just for inspiration :-)
Pro tip: using PrusaSlicer and sequential printing, I'm able to print four of these at a time on my Prusa Mini (180x180).
Also, not that I don't appreciate the effort, but if you could add some STEP-files, making some derived versions of this would be real easy!
Fusion file now linked, see the update in the description.
Thanks!. Yeah I've managed to do the sequential print too. A bit sketchy the first time around but once you have the spacing sorted it's full speed ahead. I'm doing 6 in around an hour (not on a Prusa though)
Is there a specific reason for the indent? (Not the label, the other indent)
Oh makes sense, that's clever thank you
The curved indent? It's so you can slide small parts out without them catching on the lip of the box.
I think I just can't handle thangs, but what is "Vase Mode Single Cell With L..." it doesn't show the full name
Oh yeah I see what you mean. Not much I can do about that but I can update the description.
After Downloading I can see its with Label, UI of thangs seems bad tho
Also FYI I had to scale these 105% on the X and Y axis to match gridfinity scale.
I've updated with the dimensions fixed now. Thanks for the feedback.
Could you please release a half height version?
Fusion file now linked, see the update in the description. So you can play with the height.
+1 to this. Would be handy to have every height from x3 to x12. Hopefully its just code, else I'll try ripping into it with tinkercad :-P
Great! i look forward to it
I don't see why not. I'll have a go in a few days
The split ones are not slicing correctly for me in Cura - leaves horizontal gaps on one outside wall. What settings/slicer are you using?
Printing the other ones right now - so fast! Great design
Try the new Cura 5.0 - it has a lot of changes for combining small things optimally. I just printed this on an ender3 in PLA+ with a 0.4mm nozzle, line width 0.6mm and layer height of 0.2mm. Print speed was 100mm/s
My only whinge is that I can't print a whole bed full of these at once because vase mode ("spiralise outer contour") doesn't do multiple pieces, and they're too tall for "one at a time" mode.
It may be something to do with small gaps. I'm not that familiar with Cura but the gap for the split model is 0.1mm. I suspect the slicer is ignoring that gap as a side effect of trying to "fix" broken STLs.