Yarn Bowl Custom Supports

thingiverse

I struggled to get the spiral to print correctly on the original model, a fantastic design available here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3038355. The supports for the spiral consistently fell over when the printer attempted to print on top of them. This was due to the fact that the spiral is situated in an area of the bowl where it slopes downward, leaving the support with nothing to adhere to. To resolve this issue, I added custom supports using MeshMixer. With these custom supports in place, no additional supports were needed at all. The printer appeared to max out at 58 degrees of overhang near the bottom of the bowl, suggesting that if your printer can handle this, no other support will be required. I did add supports to the small circles as well, but in retrospect, they were completely unnecessary.