DIY Decorative lamp | Home Decor Ideas

We designed and 3D printed this DIY decorative vase in SelfCAD/

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Description

Discover how you can design a ready to print decorative lamp in SelfCAD-3D modeling software.

If you want to decorate your living room or bedroom this is one of the DIY ideas that you can try out. If you would like to customize your own model to suit your needs you can also follow this step by step tutorial on youtube to learn how you can design your own. youtube.com/watch?v=kWITyLRWJCA&t=72s

Details

Watch this video tutorial to learn more.

Files

lamp.stl Standard Tesselated Geometry - 40.60 MB - 09/07/2019 at 12:30		Download
lamp-top.stl Standard Tesselated Geometry - 31.28 MB - 09/07/2019 at 12:27		Download

Components

1 × 3D modeling software You need a 3D modeling software to use for designing the model. For our case we are using SelfCAD https://www.selfcad.com.
1 × 3D printer You need a 3D printer to use for 3D printing the model after you have designed it.
1 × 3D printing material You need a filament to use in the 3D printing process.

Project Logs

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Tutorial on the design process
SelfCAD • 09/07/2019 at 13:22 • 0 comments

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Build Instructions

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Step 1
- Select Shape Generator
- Set number of edges to 64
- Radius to 45 and height to 50
- Then click plus button to add new Segment
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Step 2
- Now set only Top Radius to 40
- Add another segment with Top Radius 30
- And the last Segment with Top Radius 25 and Height 20
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Step 3
- Switch view to Top and Orthographic mode
- Choose Free Hand tool
- Select Spline Brush
- Set Smoothness to 10 and height to 50
- Then start drawing random molds