Spiral Fluted Bowls

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I built these two bowls on my kit-built FlyingBear P902 printer using custom models designed in an old version of Alibre 2012, now known as Geomagic Design. Both spiral-fluted bowls measure 200 mm diameter at the top, 140 mm diameter at the base, and are 100 mm tall. Note that the STL files are solid; the bowls are not hollowed out in these models. To print them as bowls, you MUST use the 'spiralize' or 'vase-mode' settings in your slicer. This setting will not print any infill or top to the bowls, but will print a bottom. My printer has a 0.4 mm nozzle and I printed my bowls using Cura 2.4 as the slicer. Besides turning on 'Spiralize Outer Contour' under the 'Special Modes' setting, I used a layer height of 0.3 mm, and a line width of 0.6 mm. The bottom thickness was set to 0.9 mm. In this version of Cura, I also had to set 'Outer Wall Wipe Distance' to 0 due to a bug in the 'spiralize' setting. I printed my two bowls using transparent blue PLA filament and scaled down the models if necessary because my build area is smaller than the top diameter of the bowls. If you have any questions about these two bowls, post them in the comments and I will answer them to the best of my ability.