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MAIN PURPOSE: Train a climbing houseplant over an arch
A round-headed garden arch for a houseplant pot. Push the pointed legs into the compost until the flanges stop at the soil, then wind a hoya, jasmine or climbing pothos round the hoop: the little inward spurs hold the ties so the plant grows into an arbour instead of a tangle.
Printing notes
23.4 cm³
Volume
29.1 g
Est. weight
636
Triangles
Print flat in PETG; green or terracotta suits most pots.
MAIN PURPOSE: Guard a seedling from slugs with a water moat
A castle moat for one precious seedling. Set the ring on the soil round the plant and fill the outer channel with water: slugs and snails will not cross it, while the plant grows up through the open centre and the inner wall keeps soil out of the moat.
Printing notes
66.2 cm³
Volume
82.1 g
Est. weight
1,176
Triangles
PETG outdoors; top up the moat after hot days. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.
MAIN PURPOSE: Hold books upright in the bays of a wavy wall
A book wall that stands up only because it waves. Like the serpentine garden walls of Suffolk, one thin skin of plastic gains its stiffness from its curves: books, notebooks and records stand in the bays on both faces, and the wall needs no buttress, base or bookend to stay up.
Printing notes
178.9 cm³
Volume
221.8 g
Est. weight
2,156
Triangles
Print standing as shown; the 4 mm wall is solid. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.
MAIN PURPOSE: Hang a plant or headphones out from a bookshelf
A cantilever held up by your books. Slide the thin tail under the last few books on a shelf, and the arm reaches out past the shelf edge to hang a small trailing plant, headphones or a tote; the weight of the books on the tail balances the load on the arm, no screws or clamps.
Printing notes
113.8 cm³
Volume
141.1 g
Est. weight
476
Triangles
Print as shown (profile on the bed), 100 % infill on the arm. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.
MAIN PURPOSE: Shelter a row of seedlings under a vault
A miniature polytunnel for seedlings on a windowsill or raised bed. The barrel vault is a single 3 mm shell that is stiff only because it is curved, the foot flanges stop it rocking, and the open ends let air through so seedlings stay warm without damping off.
Printing notes
123.3 cm³
Volume
152.9 g
Est. weight
1,300
Triangles
Print standing on one end in translucent PETG, vase-like.
MAIN PURPOSE: Stretch fabric into a glowing saddle roof
A tensile lamp you finish with a scrap of stretch fabric. Two diagonal columns stand tall and two stay low; hook the corners of a square of old tights or lycra over the four tops and the fabric pulls into a saddle, a hyperbolic paraboloid like a tent roof, glowing over an LED puck on the floor.
Printing notes
106.5 cm³
Volume
132.1 g
Est. weight
108
Triangles
PETG for stiff columns. Needs stretch fabric and an LED puck. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.
MAIN PURPOSE: Stand a wall between the Free Plan deck and roof
The wall plate of the Free Plan pavilion kit. A 4 mm tongue at the foot drops into any deck slot and the shoulders sit on the slab, while the 3 mm tongue on top locates the roof. Print several in a marble, onyx or translucent filament for the look of stone and glass walls.
Printing notes
13.8 cm³
Volume
17.1 g
Est. weight
156
Triangles
Print flat; print four to six in contrasting filaments.
MAIN PURPOSE: Float a roof slab on the Free Plan walls
The floating roof of the Free Plan kit. Three slots catch the top tongues of the walls standing in the matching deck slots, so the thin slab hovers on the walls and overhangs the deck, the defining gesture of a modernist pavilion, and its top makes a second display level.
Printing notes
59.3 cm³
Volume
73.6 g
Est. weight
1,996
Triangles
Print flat in a light colour.
MAIN PURPOSE: Stack notched bars into a log-cabin pot cover
One log of a log-cabin crib. Every bar has half-depth notches top and bottom near both ends, so bars laid crosswise interlock course by course like a cabin corner. Stack sixteen into a cachepot round a nursery pot, a lantern round an LED candle or a crib for pens, as tall as you like.
Printing notes
11.9 cm³
Volume
14.7 g
Est. weight
480
Triangles
Print sixteen flat as shown; bars come out solid. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys in a dish aimed at your hometown
A compass-rose key dish that points home. Set it by the front door with its long north arm aimed at the town you came from, and drop keys into the eight-point bowl; the underside is engraved with that place's coordinates. A quiet present for anyone who has moved away or is about to.
Printing notes
24.4 cm³
Volume
30.2 g
Est. weight
11,664
Triangles
Print the dish as one piece; a darker colour shows the points best. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.