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We have modelled an unusual snowman for you. The special thing about it is that it is only made from strings. The shape of a snowman is created by varying the thread length. To make it look like a snowman later on, we have of course also modelled decorations. (Carrot, hat, eyes, mouth, arms, buttons).
The nice thing about it is that you can now attach the decorations however you like and always create a different snowman, with its own imperfections. No snowman will be perfect, just like a real snowman should be.
The many strings also give the whole thing a real feeling of a snowman, I hope you know what I mean. The look is also set in the direction of a real snowman.
We have modelled the snowmen for you in 3 sizes and, of course, the matching decorations.
Our idea was also to depict these snowmen as a small family and to use them as decoration. Over time, however, we came up with the idea of decorating the snowmen with our children (on Christmas Eve, for example)
If a decoration doesn't hold, you can also attach it with glue (but so far everything has held up really well with us)
The principle behind it:
- The printer pulls threads from one side to the other (so-called bridges), in this case, however, one string is not tied and falls off easily.
- With each additional layer, the construction becomes a little more stable, this is because the individual threads support each other
- If you now lay the threads cleverly on top of each other (also change the string lenght), the result is an form (in this case a snowman)
In the YouTube video we have a small excerpt of how the whole thing prints.