Howdy, wonderful people!

Swapping filaments early in a print is an easy way to add some style to a print and bring out details, but how do you achieve that on something like a dish?  That was the question that led to this design - a geometric dish made from hinged panels that print flat before being folded in at an angle by a screw-on base.

There are two versions of this model provided - one with the fancy pattern and one where the panels are unadorned.  Both work the same way - the panels print flat with segments of thread on them.  When folded into shape the thread elements align for the base to be attached.

Print Description

This is a regular mode print, but there are two main considerations:

* The bottom layer will be the inside of the dish, so make sure it's nice and neat!

* The panels are an articulated model so make sure there are no printing issues like stringing or overextrusion that might bind moving parts together!

Print Dimensions

The panels occupy 157mm x 137mm on the bed and are 17mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This one should scale reasonably well up, and to some degree down as well.  Even if scaling happened to compromise the hinges in some way it wouldn't be a disaster, since they just hold the base in place once the dish is assembled.

Print Orientation

The panels print upside-down and the base ring prints right-way up, like so:

File Location

You'll find this one at at 641 Planar Dish

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

It's interesting how wrong the thread parts look when the model is printed!  Those bits are curved all wrong until the parts are moved into the correct angle.  It's all nice and solid once it's together, however!

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.