Spiral Pencil/Candle/Toothbrush Cup by MakeALot

Spiral Pencil/Candle/Toothbrush Cup

MakeALot

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Published on March 7, 2011

This thing was Featured on March 8, 2011

Description

Desktop pencil cup made from interwoven spirals
or
Candle holder made from interwoven spirals
or
Toothbrush holder made from interwoven spirals
or
... made from interwoven spirals

Update:
I had it printed in ceramic to see what the quality would be like, I'm happy with the results - in ABS and ceramic.

Instructions

Print and fill with your desktop clutter or a candle for some desktop Karma.

Oh, but don't light the candle, you'll burn the building down :)

In the interests of safety, the one in the picture was photographed under water in an asbestos room.

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tbuser on February 11, 2013 said:

Hey! Looks like these guys printed one of your pencil cups at nano scale! See the 2:20 mark on this video: http://youtu.be/UoLwOYtx0TA?t=...

MakeALot on February 11, 2013 said:

Brilliant, thanks for the heads up! Love to see the pencils...

ZRex on December 21, 2011 said:

what sorts of parameters (fill speed etc) are people having luck with on this one?

burtyb on December 19, 2011 said:

I couldn't get openscad to import your STL (to scale it down to 85mm high) so spent 45 min watching the progress bar ;). First attempt turned into a coaster (the spirals wasn't attached properly) but the next one looks really nice - thanks . :)

MakeALot on December 19, 2011 said:

Glad you sorted it out, it does annoy me that OpenSCAD can't read it's own output! Hopefully that will be fixed in the next version.

Thaed on September 10, 2011 said:

The most useful thing on Thingiverse. http://ohio-makerbot.blogspot....

MakeALot on September 10, 2011 said:

That's very magnanimous of you, thanks :)

Renosis on April 1, 2011 said:

How long does it take to print on a MakerBot?

techninja on June 17, 2011 said:

Just about 4 hours on a Thing-o-matic. And If your belts are nice and tight, everything will go smoothly! (I had 4 failures of this particular model before getting it right
&
amp;gt;:o )

MakeALot on April 1, 2011 said:

I think it was a couple of hours, but I'm not at able to check at the moment. Maybe someone else who has printed could chip in? Or, if you load it in ReplicatorG and generate the Gcode, the estimate it provides should be quite accurate.