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Topic: Optical Illusion Vase

Just trying out some vases since I finally got my wife to like something I printed. 

This is a "gear" on the bottom, twists and tapers up to larger gear on the top, but it's not the typical line to line that you normally see with the snowflake vases.  If you follow the bottom gear line up it ends up one line over on the top gear, so it ends up looking like one of those optical illusions where the bottom doesn't match the top.  STL attached at the bottom.

http://s9.postimage.org/im2jatb8v/optical_illusion_vase.jpg

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2 Reply by jooshs (edited by jooshs 2013-01-27 03:19:01)

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Re: Optical Illusion Vase

Love it! Is this a SW creation of yours? Is it the same deal with solid piece, no infill, and removing the top?  Have you found 2 perimeters is enough without cracking/warping?

My lady loves vases too... Anything that keeps her happy keeps me printing.  I probably shared these some time back, but these Julia Vases are pretty cool. 

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:28052

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8417930485_251997afa6_b.jpg

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Re: Optical Illusion Vase

Yeah it's a solidworks original, and you got it.  Solid no infill 2 perimeters and chop the top layers in the gcode manually.  Much better than trying to guess the wall thickness in the model and have the slicer mess it up and not do it right.  2 perimeters seem to be working great, there's a little give to the finished item so if you wanted itmore solid you could go 3 or 4. 

Love your prints hadn't seen them before.  I may get some clear next and make some light fixtures for around the house.

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Re: Optical Illusion Vase

Nice work!

Kisslicer has a Vase option that when selected leaves the top off of a solid object and uses the # of perimeters for the walls.

It also worked using this option on a non-manifold STL created after deleting the top face of a solid in Solidworks. The top layers of the code get some weird short tails if the deleted top face was not flat and parallel to the build plane.