3D Printed Contemporary Planter
Tools & Materials
Project Description
What is a simple planter that we can design and 3D print with a Prusa?
As an architect and designer, a lot of my early projects started as complex ideas that were challenging to bring together. At the end of each project, the outcome was always a simplified version of where it originally began. I carry this design thinking with me to this day and my goal for all of my projects is to take a complex idea and turn it into something as simple as possible while retaining its design values. This 3D printed contemporary planter is a result of this way of thinking.
Using a software called Rhinoceros, I developed a 3D model with simple commands including line, copy, move, loft, boolean difference, sphere, and offset. I drew two medium sized circles followed by a larger one and used the move command to reorder them vertically with medium at the bottom and top and large at the center. Using the loft command, I created a surface that connected the three circles.
Next, I drew a sphere, moved it to the top of the lofted shape, and extracted it from the surface with the boolean difference command. This resulted in an elegant shape with an open top where the plant could lean out of one side. I also created a drip tray, which I’ve done for all of the planters I designed.
