6 inch mid century modern planter (vase mode)

This is a 6 inch (150mm) planter (or flower pot, if you prefer) prints fully in vase mode (that's "spiral outer contours" for you Cura folks). This plant has an attached overflow dish complete with drainage holes, and it all prints together as one single vase piece.

This planter is designed to be printed with a standard 0.4mm nozzle with quite good strength, though you can also go all the way up to a 0.8mm nozzle with no problem.

Print Settings

The most important setting is to enable vase mode! This can be listed as "spiralize outer contours", "spiral vase", or something else in your slicer. If you are unsure what this is, please google "vase mode " and you will find exactly how to enable this.

These are the rest of the settings that I used and I recommend you use as well:

• Layer Height: 0.3mm (you can always increase this if you have a larger nozzle with a hotter hot end)
• Line Width: 0.8mm (this is very important, and yes, you can do this with a 0.4mm nozzle, just trust me)
• Bottom Layers: 5 - 8 (it holds all the soil in, so don't be shy and add some layers)
• Initial Layer Horizontal Expansion: -0.1mm (not required, but this helps with elephants foot)
• Print Temperature: +10 to +15 degrees your usual temperature (for example, I print Overture and PolyTerra at 200, but print this planter with those filaments at 210 to 215 depending on my mood... when in doubt, go hotter)
• Flow: 110% (I don't know if this is required, but I set it for my vases, so try it if you want)
• Wall Speed: 30mm/s (you can play with this... slow it down if you have extruder issues)

This planter should use about 204 grams of filament and print in around 7 hours with these settings.

Special note for Prusa Slicer: Under Print Settings > Advanced, there is a "Slice gap closing radius" setting. You need to set this to 0. This is very important.

Notes

There may be an extra line at the back (oriented on the bed) of the planter where the drainage dish is attached to the rest of the body, depending on your slicer. I was too lazy and didn't figure out how to get rid of it. It makes no functional difference, and it is easy to trim with an xacto knife to make it look nice.

The planter in the photos was printed on a largely-unmodified Elegoo Neptune 2 with a 0.4mm nozzle using Overture Matte Light Blue PLA.

Also in the photos

Featured in the photos are also my smaller hexagonal vase mode planters, as well as my cat (no 3D model for her available).

Category: Outdoor & Garden