Polygon Spiral Vase

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<p>24th December 2021:</p><p>Thanks to everybody for all the nice feedback of my Vase design :-)</p><p>I decided to created several new Versions of the Vase and renamed the hole project “Polygon Spiral Vase”.</p><p>Now there are Versions with different shapes, rotations and “start” polygons.</p><p>All Variants are parametric designed with Grasshopper.<br>I would like to share the base design to ease remixing, but at the moment I'm not able to upload .gh files.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>28th March 2020:</p><p>This is my version of a Spiral Vase.</p><p>It bases on a regular dodecagon (polygon with twelve edges) cross section that continiously transits into a circle.<br>The transition follows a spiral path with variable radius.</p><p>I printed this on my Prusa Mini in vase mode in Prusament Galaxy Black PLA and Prusament Ultramarine Blue PETG.<br>Both prints looks beautiful!</p><p>Happy 3D Printing :)</p><h3>Print instructions</h3><p>This geometry is designed to use vase mode.</p><p>I usually like to increase the extrusion width of the contours to achieve stiffer parts.<br>This way the printing gets a little more stable for tall and thin components, too (in my opinion).</p><p>I recommend using 0.6 to 1 mm.<br>The attached print file uses 0.9 mm.</p><p>If you'd like to achieve a watertight print I recommend to increase the bottom layers to 7 to 9 layers.<br>Furthermore, use 3 contour lines with about 0.45 mm width.<br>Moreover, an overlap of about 40% of contour and infill has proven in my case.</p>