Watering can

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<p>I wanted to print a small watering can for my wife to help her with watering house plants, but could not find model I like. Mostly due to the long printing time.</p><p>So I decided to design one myself, drop all non essential features, make watering can minimalistic and take advantage of vase mode.</p><p><strong>Can volume:</strong> 300ml</p><h3>Build instructions</h3><p>Print in vase mode with 0.8mm line width with 0.4mm nozzle or with 0.8mm nozzle directly.<i> I did it with 0.4mm nozzle and 0.8mm line width.</i></p><p><strong>Filament:</strong> Monofilament coPET (PETG) Violet.</p><h4>My slicer settings</h4><p>Starting from normal/standard profile and changed following:</p><h5>PrusaSlicer</h5><ul><li>Spiral vase - Enabled;</li><li>Skirt loops - 0;</li><li>Extrusion width - 0.8 (if you printing with 0.4 nozzle).</li></ul><h5>Cura</h5><ul><li>Line width - 0.8 (if you printing with 0.4 nozzle);</li><li>Z seam aligment - User specified;</li><li>Z seam position - Front left;</li><li>Z seam X - 10 (tweak this to avoid loose loop);</li><li>Build plate adhesion type - None.</li></ul><p>Set layer hight and print speed on your discretion.</p><h4>Post-printing</h4><ul><li>Cut loose loops with nippers, if there is any (I got one in print sliced with PrusaSlicer and none in sliced with Cura);</li><li>Press fit lid in place;</li><li><i>(Optional)</i> You can glue lid, but in my experience it hold well enough without gluing.</li></ul><h3>Print tips</h3><p>Final version is printed in PETG, but prototype in PLA also turned out good. <i>PLA version is more stiff.</i> Print in translucent filament if you have one.</p><h4>Can body</h4><p>Rotate model slightly if you see loose loop on preview. <i>Idea is to locate model in a such way that seam (layer change) is located on spout.</i> In Cura you can twik this by adjusting “Z seam X/Y”.</p><h4>Lid</h4><p>If lid turned out too big or too small you can scale it up or down with step 1%. Current lid model size worked for me, at least if watering can printed in PETG.</p>