Plant Pot - Parametric Laser Construction Kit

I decided it was time to make a little plant and pot construction kit, as I couldn't think of anything else, and I rather like plants.


Drawing

I started by drawing some little sketches:

Pot Plant


Card

and then testing a cardboard model:

Card


Solidworks

I then moved to solidworks, working with the same variables for equations as before:

Equations

I created a sub assembly of the pot base

Render 3

I made the slots on one of the pot sides, the duplicated the part with a new name, mirrored the major slots to ensure that they'd be identical.

Pot Sides

Having made the two pot side parts, I needed to create the interlocking pieces for stability and a place for the plant branch to attach. To measure the slot seperation distance, I used the measure tool, with the three parts side by side:

Measuring

Going from a 'master' support strut like the pot sides, I duplicated the part and mirrored, and edited the slots as required (drawing from the card model for slot numbers and orientations).

I extensively used the Extend, and Trim entities tools.

  • Mirror without Copy

Flipping Slot Side Mirror

  • Mirrored by move

Flipping

  • Extend entity

Extend Entity

  • Extending entities

Extend Entity

  • Trimming entities

Trimming

I then made some other parts using splines and arcs with fairly random values.


Assembly

Which I then encorporated into an assembly with the pot sub assebmly below:

Render As a photographer I really like the fine camera controls within Solidworks to do with the lens and focal depth. It tends to lead to an over production of renders - most of which like my photographs should be kept hidden deep in folders rarely traversed. Render


Photographs

Photograph

  • less good photographs

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Parts

Parts

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