Hacking Vase Mode - 3D Printing Experiments 

Where can I find that iceberg model? I really want to try out vase mode on my printer with that interesting shape!

You say the vase is too weak, but remember there's going to be a dirt filling. You only need to worry about tensile strengths of the material for containing that dirt, which will far exceed what's needed to work.

Hey there! Before you embarrass yourself by commenting on my pronunciation of 'vase' keep in mind I am Australian, not American. We follow UK rules for the most part. Still too complicated? Watch this great video to learn more. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aRb8iOtDTZ0.html 'mind blown'. Have a great day mate.

Very thorough and interesting investigation. Great stuff! I love the look of that 'voxelized' pyramid

It's actually quite overwhelming that so many people can't comprehend that people say things differently in different places

IT'S NOT JUST A VASE, MOM!

Put an LED in the blue crystal thing for a wonderful night-light or lamp.

This might be an interesting way to make lightweight things like 3d printed airplanes

drinking game: take a drink every time he says vase.

Apparently the FT-5 is good at those large-nozzle vase prints. It has pretty beefy motors, but I haven't done much with the hotend yet. Maybe I'll try that iceberg-looking model with translucent green!

Seems like Vase Mode is perfect for making a positive for mold making. If you used it for helmets, you could then make a rubber mold of it and make fiberglass shells. I might have to try that as soon as I get my larger printer running.

Silly. Its pronounded as "voo." The 'a' makes a long 'u' sound and 's's and 'e's are always silent in English.

A thought, a Chinese lantern

Dude Angus Come on man give us the blue iceybergy thing we are waiting for it i am waiting for more than 2 month for it since the first time KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAN. you are awesome

Neat! That 2mm nozzle is crazy! I've been using vase mode to make transparent optical parts like light diffusers (fancy lampshades for my lightsabers) to prevent the 'zippers' you normally get that become really obvious when back-lit. I'm even learning to use the layer lines as "microlenses" to pull some _very_ interesting tricks. Practically holographic.

youtube unsubbed me from your channel!

That blue thing is beautiful! What filament Angus?

Can you print (using 1.75mm)with a 2mm nozzle? Holy sh*t Also, that squared_cone_thingy is amacing

All good stuff, thank you. but when your stuff gets so light don't overlook weighting it down. Just a chunk of metal or sand or something in the bottom to keep it heavy is somewhat common in manufacturing if you're going to make a pen and pencil cup you kind of need to weigh it down

Why is everyone commenting about his pronunciation of vase? I mean, he’s Australian, not American.

Thanks Angus! I'm in the process of making a cosmetic leg cover for my Wife's prosthetic leg and this will save be BOAT LOADS of time in test prints while we try and nail down the final shape! Love the experiments! Id like to suggest one, I noticed that when I print some models the cooler that I have on my printer blows air in such a way to whistle (similar to blowing over the top of a bottle). I always wondered if a model could be designed to play a tune while it printed. It most likely would look like a bunch of tubes in the end, but it would make for a fun experiment. Love the Videos! Thanks again!

Thank you for pronouncing vase properly.

you are a fabulous presenter. I love your enthusiasm and willingness to share & educate. I wish more youtubers had your approach & style.

“overhangs” 😮 I had never even considered how that would factor into things.

I really just want this guy's shirt 😂

When you said 2mm nozzle I thought "An 0.2mm nozzle isn't such a big deal. Ohhhhh" *Eyes widen to the size of dinner plates*

"ooooo who's burning the cookies?" ;)

This has probably been said by now, but the vase mode print with the voids would work great for an in line water filter.

*voz mode*

I told myself I would go to sleep 3 hours ago and I’m here I don’t even have a 3D printer

Why does he pronounce it vaas? Not vase?

great for the environment printing plastic stuff. congratulations

Veys or Vaas ?

Can anyone identify the speech/remix thing he plays in the intro or outro of his videos (at the end of this one)? I have been searching but can't find it anywhere; it's driving me crazy. The quoted segment he frequently uses ("In the second half of the twentieth century, man has sent rockets into deep space" shows up nowhere on Google...

Won't the fact that PLA is biodegradable (and in this case, thin) be a problem for vases?

"Okey I hack vase mode and see if we can get something special, other than vases" 7:55 *being back at making vases again*

This is awesome. I made a pencil holder and I wanted to do it in vase mode but because of the angles I thought it would fail. But now I need to try it because I bet it would do something similar to that cone! Thanks for the ideas

Why are so many people complaining about the pronunciation, I'm full american, and pronounce it both ways :P

Great video. However, it's pronounced vase, not vase.

Love you pronunciation of vase.. You're too quick to sell short the thinness of your vases. Look at a common water bottle or soda can and notice how flimsy they are when empty. Fill your vase or pot with water or dirt before deciding it's flimsy. The content can be a structural element.

Thank you for using the correct pronunciation of vase

Big thumb's up for being visually considerate of your viewers, and showing them exactly what you're talking about. Show and Tell, the oldest and best way. Bravo.

where Can download the model?

I don’t think anyone really cares how you say vase, it’s just that i don’t think anyone knew that British or Australians pronounce it that way. (I didn’t know, and i have hundreds of British and Australian friends) guess vase isn’t a common word 🤷🏾‍♂️

Okay so where can I get the other two things that you showed off?

great video I'm trying to figure out how to do this in cura? anyone know? I think one just goes into expert mode and checks spiralize outer contour?

"vozz" count: 43

I like that crystal shape. Stick an LED in it and you have some cool decorations.

loving your channel sir. subscribed

Lampshades are functional! Though I would suggest using them with LED lighting as they run cool - PLA probably won't cop the heat of a 60W incandescent bulb let alone a 100W or 150W!

Very interesting Angus! Great to see some practical applications being produced from that testing! :)

i dont like your shirt... I love it

Thanks, one of the best videos Ive seen on 3d printing for a while. Something different, cheers Angus!

vos mode

I'd like to give it a go with this pot, I printed 12 pointed tree topper star using vase mode for each point using my volcano nozzle with a .6mm nozzle, but intentionally overextruding to reach .9mm wall thickness, and was able to get super clean finishes. Each point printed quickly and was very strong and very smooth. I think that's roughly the sweet spot because .9mm walls are pretty strong -- I might be able to force it to get to 1.2mm walls using the same nozzle as I'm using the bondech qr, so it can really pump out the plastic.

vaaaz

“v A se “. “vAse”!!! vase

These are really the interresting kind of 3d printing hacks. Btw, what about designing infill in your CAD program, and printing that in vasemode? This custom infill could make your object soft in one direction and stiff in another direction...

um please explain what voz mode

They slapped his face on every vase- On EEEEEEvry VAZE!

omg the way he says vase makes me wanna jump off a bridge the E makes the freaking A say its name!!!!!!!

Vase mode seems great to make bedside lamps!

the way he pronounces "vase" disturbs me more than it should

Do you have a link to the "block cone" model that you created? I'd love to try printing that one. Thanks.

Hi from Brazil!!! Very nice video. Would you please share the link of the models?

You are a GENIUS!!! Innovative with possibly too much time on your hands(to our benefit of course) Keep thinking outside the box.

I don't like vase mode since the products are so flimsy fragile and non-transportable without care. Thus what I want is a I multi wall vase mode. I think this may be possible like so: The ramp just needs to be distributed on the last inner outline, then the last outer outline then the last inner and so forth. The center outlines do not raise z height.

Volcano will go up to 1.2mm for you but prepare a beefy part cooler because it's a challenge to cool down that much plastic.

Love this exploit, the insatiable curiosity and the methodological investigation of practical applications

Im a subscriber and I "LOVE YOUR INFORMATIVE VIDEOS"!! hands down, but! I really wish you would provide an approximation of how long it took you to print items you talk about. "Example: this took about 2hrs 15 min" every printer is different and based on the settings you use. Something like that.... :)

When I was taking Spanish courses in middle school, I kept getting confused by the video--every time it would say the word in English, followed by the Spanish translation, it would say something about an ultra vase. I never knew what this vase was, and thinking it was something important to the culture (I mean, come on... It was not just any vase, it was an ULTRA VASE!) I asked my now partner some 20+ years later, "Hon, what is the ultra vase?" to which he replied, "Huh?" I said, "To people of Spanish decent, what is the ultra vase? What does it look like? Have you seen one?"... Grinning from ear to ear, he said "Do you mean Otra Vez?" "Yes!", I exclaimed, "I can't say it as well as you, and I'm sorry, but what IS it? In middle school, they referenced the vase after EVERY SINGLE WORD!"... "It's otra vez. It means 'again' or 'once more'"... I cannot believe that I had wondered about this non-existent vase for so damn long. Someone needs to design the ULTRA VASE for me. It's my Spanish unicorn, and I need it in my life. Turns out

SUPERB video, thanks!! I use Cura as my slicer, just because it is the first one I found for my Anet A8. I LOVE "vase" mode. It is in quotes because Cura calls it "Spiralise Outer Contour". What I love doing with it is simple rectangles, with no top - as drawer or parts organizers. By printing fairly wide - 0.4 or 0.5, it is sufficiently strong.

Looked everywhere, but I can't find anyone experimenting with _HALF_-VASE-MODE prints ...where the nozzle reverses direction along the same path. If needed these could have small loops on either end to avoid jerking the layer back up from the corner.

Hey Angus, interesting you should experiment with extended utilization of vase mode printing as it is close to a subject matter I recently stumbled upon here on RU-vid. Curious if you're aware of non-planar slicing? Have you seen this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gmePlcU0TRw.html ? What are your thoughts on this. Definitely a long winded set up to get it going, but it's rather fascinating. EDIT: Just realized I'm 3 years late to this party...would still be interested to know if you've seen anything on non-planar slicing.

Interesting experiment! Nice video Angus!

Hey Question!? If vase mode is limited in strength inherently, what happens when you use a larger diameter nozzle such as .6 or .8? Will this allow for EVEN FASTER vase mode with even more strength?

You can print the things side-ways to make flat surface on sides or top :P

We use both pronunciations of "vase". We grew up around the Beltway using the UK pronunciation IF the vase was worth over $50 USD. I don't suppose anyone's actually spoken Spoken Queen's English since 5th grade or so, then puberty trashed the rest. anyway, thanks for the info. It's what I needed to know! Cheers

Why does everybody pretend PLA is actually biodegradable, its not and every self respecting 3D printer expert knows it. The only people that say PLA is biodegradable, are people marketing/selling PLA, or idiots.

I know it would take quite a bit of doing, but could a 3D printer potentially be set up to have the part printed in a water-cooled system? So that some of the lines that drooped really bad on the overhangs cooled much quicker?

...if you are printing 0.2 layers on 0.4 nozzle and 45 degs is recommended maximum overhang, and then you switch to 0.1 layer on the same nozzle, it is quite obvious you can achieve higher overhangs. Because you can overlay TWO layers now over the same vertical distance as only one, before. So, you can "step out" twice over the same vertical distance and still have exactly as much support from the layer below as previously. I actually only realized that after watching this part of the video when you compare the domes.

"Vase-mode" could still be improved, if a software engineer would add the capability for "multiple-walls", and/or "separated-walls, w/ a zig-zag infill". Obviously the toolpath-planar would be a bit more sophisticated , but it seems doable.

The blue thing you made, would be cool as a table lamp

Thank you so much for posting this! I have zits (perfect name) ever since I started experimenting with vase mode. Glad I found this, I thought I tried everything - but not obviously everything.

I hate it when people say vazz. it is pronounced 'vace' like in base, and Chase in American English. I know you speak Wrong English (lol jk) but it still aggravates me. I spent several years of my childhood trying to figure out what the fuck a vazz was.

Try doing the large nozzle print in vase mode with a Lulzbot TAZ with the Moarstruder, I just put together the Moarstruder which you have to 3D print the parts of the toolhead and put in the extruder. It uses a 1mm nozzle. I will experiment with vase mode as well, seems interesting.

Okay...so I have no clue how any of this shit works. But with your hexagonal dome, what would happen if you separated each layer of differing layer and upped the thickness a bit each step. So you could start with pretty thin material, then make it thicker and thicker so you wouldn't get that gradual thinning and eventually spider-webbing. Again, never used a 3D printer in my life, and my CAD experience is minimal and limited to CNC mills

I love vase mode, have printed tons of models for over 4 years. Only for vase mode I still prefer Slic3r to generate gcode over Simplify3D. I've got so many code errors using S3D and always got better results in Slic3r. Angus I'd like you opinion about it. Thanks for the always nice 3DP tips !

Use you plant pot as a lampshade

aww you shouldn't have to explain why you talk funny! Lol hey we all talk funny to someone else! my mom is from Rhode Island and man does she talk weird! we even have her say things like " I parked the car in Harvard yard" but it's all good fun! this world would be so much less interesting if we all talked the same. I'm fixing to git my first printer via Banggood in a few weeks and I'm very interested in vase mode! I've already been looking through my engineering books from college that deal with material science looking for odd things like your hollow cone! hey Angus what's the difference between a "vahs" and a vase? $1000! Lol Great video! I hope there are more.

when using a .6 nozzle should you use a layer height of .25 and a line width of 1 or 1.2?? maybe 40mm /sec speed and increase temp approx 10 degrees pla/petg... looking to build a strong vase that still has nice detail...thanks

I know this is now an older video but my stumbling over it is well timed. I’ve recently started using the MOAR extruder on my taz 6 and Lulzbot pushes vas mode for it and it does very well with it but vas aren’t really my thing. I’m thinking RC model parts! Thanx

I want that blue crystal looking thing so bad it's so cool

Umm... did i do something wrong? i tried the overhang print in vase mode with 0.2mm layer heights and a 0.4 mm nozzle (my regular one) and it completed the print. as in all of it, including the one on thin air. I did print it at 60% scale as i'm running out of filament but this is the only difference between what i and +Maker'sMuse did.

Yeah, just another way we “stuck it” to The King...Queen AND QUEENS ENGLISH..

Man, i just got a incredible print with vase mode, nozzle 1.0 layer 0.4 petg. u should test out, 250 degree celsius, and another thing, i made it with a baby groot model...

I do not understand 90% of the comments. What are y'all going on about? I hear nothing wrong with the way he's pronouncing vase. Maybe I'm missing out due to my inability to hear regional accents? Imagine running a soda through a fine filter until it is almost water, then drinking it. The taste is so faint that despite your knowledge of its presence, you cannot tell what the drink was previously. Now do that with accents. You all sound the same, and I understand you all equally. Would someone *please* help me understand what I am not hearing, or at least why I'm not hearing whatever it is everyone else is able to?

VASE. looks modern at thingiverse, but after print it, it become brand-new modern garbage can or PLA just hanging around.

One other "interesting" feature of Vase Mode: If you crank up the speed and print lots of curves on a large printer .... it's a test of your firmware's compute speed. Put another way - you may also want a 32 bit board for that super duper ultimate 2 M tall Vase Mode printer :)