Hexagon Pen Pots - fully customisable!

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<p>A set of hexagonal pen pots in three different sizes, fully customisable into whatever layout you want, with as many mortices and tenons as you need.</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>This is a fully customisable set of hexagonal pen, pencil and tool holders. You can print the pots with as many or as few mortices and tenons as you wish, and then slot them all together.</p> <p>The thing I don't like about most of these modular type prints is that you have to have mortices and tenons on the exposed sides. I think this looks untidy so I devised a way to remove them using the split to parts function in Prusaslicer.</p> <p><h3>Planning</h3><p>Before starting to print I suggest sketching on paper how many of each pot in which colours you want, and which mortices and tenons you will be using.</p></p> <p><h3>Customising</h3><p>Load a pot into Prusaslicer and use the option to split into PARTS, either from the toolbar at the top or by right-clicking on the part. This separates the pot into 13 parts, 1 main body, 6 tenons and 6 filled in mortices. Highlight the mortices and tenons you want to remove and tap delete. This will leave you with the main body and however many mortices and tenons you wanted to keep. See screenshots for reference.</p> <p>I left 2 mortices on the orange parts and left the other sides flat. On the black parts I left 2 tenons on 2 of the parts and 1 tenon on the other 2. This allows a chain of 7 pots, all with no mortices or tenons on the exposed sides.&lt;/p&gt;</p> <p><h3>Printing</h3><p>Slice the pot using the 0.2mm quality preset, leave everything as default. If you choose a different preset the mortices and tenons may not fit. I printed the black pots in Prusament PLA and the orange pots in Amazonbasics PLA.</p></p> <p><h3>Assembly</h3><p>When you have finished printing the pots they just slide together. The fit is quite loose because I wanted them to come apart easily if people wanted to change the layout.</p> <p>Printing in the configurations I used gives a lot of flexibility in layout, as you can see from the photos.&lt;/p&gt;</p> <p><h3>Extra customising</h3><p>There are a couple of extra STL files, one for a double tenon joiner and another for a tenon dummy. The double tenon joiner can be used to join 2 morticed faces together If you change you mind on layout afterwards. Likewise the tenon dummy can be used to fill in a tenon to give a flat face.</p></p></p></p>