Button Jar Lid (and buttons!)

myminifactory

Glass is fantastic, and glass jars are wonderful too! But, how do you take a collection of empty jars and turn them into a cohesive element of home decor? 3D Printed jar lids! The inspiration for this came from seeing a bunch of classic buttons for sale, and realizing just how iconic that design is. I'd been thinking about making jar lids, and that gave me a great theme to base my design on. So, here we are! And, while I was at it, I printed a bunch of actual buttons too, and the files for those are attached. Now, there's one crucial consideration here: this lid will fit only a 62mm lugged jar. Not a screw-threaded jar. Not a different sized jar! Admittedly, I didn't know what a lugged jar was until I designed this, and started looking up jar specifications. Lugs are the little tabs inside the lid that slide down what look like partial threads on the jar. The ones in the photos are a good example. It seems that 62mm lugged jars are the kind I encounter most often. If you want to take the design and adapt it for other sizes, that would be an amazing thing to do! I really should have approached this parametrically, so that it could be arbitrarily sized... Oh, and there are two lids included: one with holes going right through, and one with a solid top, just because.