Breathing Plant Pot [Fully Parametric]

This is a single-piece plant pot for FDM printers, and it prints without supports. The wall is perforated to let as much air reach the roots as possible while still holding the soil in. A plain cup fused to the base catches drips and keeps a small water reserve that the soil wicks back up. Every file in this listing was generated from code, with no manual modelling. The geometry comes from an implicit field meshed with marching cubes, or from exact geometry for the patterns that support it, and the script exports an STL, a 3MF and a PNG preview in one pass. Make your own version The generator is a Python project, open on GitHub: https://github.com/carloscamposalcocer/pots Because the pot is defined by parameters rather than drawn by hand, nothing here is fixed. You can pick one of ten wall patterns (voronoi, hex, drops, lattice, isogrid, louvers, slots, spiral, chevrons, weave) and six profiles (tapered, straight, bowl, tulip, barrel, hourglass), then change the height, wall thickness, strut widths, cell count, rim, base, drip cup and more. The height drives the whole shape, so a shorter pot gets fewer holes of the same size instead of a shrunken copy. The rules that keep it support-free (45° minimum roof slopes, short bridges, struts printable with a 0.4 mm nozzle) are built into the generator. To set it up: git clone https://github.com/carloscamposalcocer/pots cd pots uv sync These are the commands that produced the files uploaded here: uv run pots pattern=voronoi shape=barrel height=130 uv run pots pattern=voronoi shape=tulip uv run pots pattern=weave uv run pots pattern=lattice shape=barrel uv run pots pattern=hex shape=straight Anything you don’t specify uses the defaults: a 100 mm tall tapered pot with a 6 mm wall. Add quality=full when building a file you plan to print, and run uv run pots --help for the full list of options. The README in the repository documents every parameter. If you print a version with your own settings, I’d like to see it in the makes section. Printing The pot prints in one piece with no supports.