Closed Spiral Christmas Ball 2025
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€4.19 – €5.12 net (excluding VAT)
For file: Closed Spiral Ball 2025 s5_0.15mm_PLA_MK3S_6h18m.gcode
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- Weight reported by the author
- 24 g
- Print time reported by the author
- 6.3 hr
- Source material
- PLA
- Estimate material
- PLA
- Estimate printer
- Bambu Lab P1S - 0.4 nozzle
- Estimate process
- 0.20mm Standard
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A fun and lightweight ball for the tree!
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Model information
- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Winter & Christmas & New Year's
- License
- Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — NoDerivatives
You can scale this down a lot and still get good detail. I printed it at 50% and 100% with the standard .4mm nozzle. At 50%, the loop prints cleanly, but it is very fragile.
At 100%, I used 2 perimeters for roughly the first 7mm and the last 18mm. In between, I just used 1 perimeter. I did the same at 50%, (2 perimeters for the 3.5mm at the bottom & 9mm at the top). Use the classic perimeter generator. It's cleaner for geometric designs like this.
I tried it at 100% with and without infill. Infill is a lot better. I used 10% lightning and the final ornament was still under 20g. at 50%, I didn't need infill.
I usually print the outer perimeter slower than the default speed for my printer to get a clean, detailed print.
I've provided my PrusaSlicer project file and GCODE for a Prusa MK3S+ printer.
This design lends itself well to multi-color printing. I just don't have a printer that can print that way. For those of you who do, I created a PrusaSlicer project file using a Core One with MMU as the printer, and added to it three multi color versions of the ball - 2 versions of the ball in 2 colors and 1 in 3 colors. If you print this in multi-color, please post a make!