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Hello, hello, my favourite people!

Sometimes the results of a print can be somewhat unexpected. I'm not sure entirely what I thought would happen when I built up this skull shape with twisty back-and-forth lines, but I didn't expect it to be so springy and bendy!

Adding detail to vase mode prints can enhance rigidity, but when those details are large enough to become flexible we get the opposite result, and it's more like constructing things from springy hinges instead. I suspect that if you really scaled this up, but kept layer lines thin, it could get quite floppy under its own weight.

Anyway, I can't deny the tactile appeal of this thing, so while this model originally had other vaguely descriptive names it's firmly become the Fidget Skull instead.

(but you could still use it to hold stuff, too!)

Print Description

This is a vase mode print, so set your slicer accordingly!

Print Dimensions

Default size for the Fidget Skull is 93mm x 138mm on the print bed, and 100mm tall. Being vase mode, though, it'll scale up and down easily!

Supports Needed?

Not at all! Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

This one will scale easily!

Print Orientation

As you'd expect with vase mode, the Fidget Skull prints right-way-up.

Further Thoughts

For extra flexiness, try tearing the base off the print, or even better, print without any bottom layers at all! Without the constraint of the base layers, the whole thing becomes much more bendy and flexy!

Happy printing!

xoxo Sven.

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574 Fidget Skull

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Fidget Skull

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Fidget Skull v2.stl

Fidget Skull v2.stl

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