I’ve had some trouble with printing recently that turned out to be a Z-offset issue. So just to test the new settings I printed a few smaller things and then chose this multi-level planter as a larger project. You know, just to get confidence back in my printer. It took 12+ hours and that’s when I remembered I hadn’t put it in ‘vase’ mode or increased the infill to a point where I could trust it to hold water. I wasn’t going to print it again just for that so I went looking about for a drip tray that I could sit it on and not worry that my desk would get flooded overnight.
There wasn’t one for this planter, (Find the original here) and there weren’t any remixes so I decided it was time I dove back into Tinkercad and try to make something that matched the odd shape all those tubes make together. You can see in the pic that a simple oval wouldn’t be that great and probably take up too much room.
I loaded the original STL file into Tinkercad and cut it down a bit. There isn’t a slice tool in Tinkercad, so you sort of work with negative space and group things over and over. It took a lot of invisible cylinders to remove the inner pipes and end up with a flat surface.
At some point it came out upside down when I imported it into Cura. Not sure what that was about but a few attempts later and I’m happy with the result. It’s a bit rough but will do the job. This is only my second attempt at a Tinkercad mod so I’m going easy on myself. 🙂
I think I printed it at 70% to cut down on leaks but I will probably coat it with wood glue just to be sure. Here’s a link to my effort.
cheers!
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