Hexagon basketweave desiccant bottle

prusaprinters

<p>I needed a desiccant container and none of the designs I found online met all my needs in terms of shape, dimensions, and ease/speed of printing, so I decided to design my own.</p><p>I took inspiration from <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4820432">PsychProd's in-spool desiccant container design</a>, and came up with my own based on a similar basketweave pattern. The main difference was I used straight lines for the wall profile rather than gear teeth, so there's less drooping of the unsupported/bridge areas, so the final print looks just a bit cleaner.</p><p>It's 50mm across the flats and 132mm tall with the lid included (it will fit in a 59mm circle).</p><p>The walls are one layer thick (0.4mm), so make sure you turn on “detect thin walls” to prevent your slicer from trying to print more than one perimeter shell.</p><p>The container itself printed in about 3 hours, and the lid took another 45 minutes.&nbsp;</p><p>I used 0.2mm layer height for most of the bottle, then used adaptive layer height to lower it down to 0.1mm for the threads to ensure a good clean result. The lid was done at 0.15mm for the same reason, and both parts came out beautifully with no need for supports.&nbsp;</p><p>The lid threads have an 0.2mm tolerance all round, and fit first try for me with no scaling needed.</p>