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1.2-metre 3D printed hotpot bowl model

An oversized twin-flavour hotpot bowl, 1200 mm across, printed in white PLA panels and welded into one piece with its S-shaped divider.

Size
1200 mm across
Made of
White PLA panels, plastic-welded into one piece
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What we brought

  1. What we can do

    One big piece from printable panels

    We cut a 1.2-metre bowl into panels our FDM printers could take, then rebuilt it whole.

  2. How we look after you

    Every panel knows its place

    Each panel is printed with its grid position, so the team knew where every piece went.

  3. What you get

    Welded seams, tidied inside

    Every seam is plastic-welded with a hot stapler, and the staple legs are ground down inside.

The build

How we built it

5 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 5

Size
1200 mm across
Material
PLA, printed in parts and assembled
Finish
None, left plain white

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we 3D printed an oversized hotpot bowl for an events company. They needed a twin-flavour pot 1200 mm across, split in two by an S-shaped divider, in plain white.

Concept

Step 2 of 5

The concept set out a shallow round bowl with a curved lower wall and one S-shaped divider running across it, kept plain so the 3D model could be cut into printable panels.

RenderA concept render of the bowl.
DrawingA concept sketch of the bowl.

Fabrication

Step 3 of 5

We cut the 3D model on a grid into panels sized for our FDM printers and printed them in white PLA. Each panel carries its grid position, so the bowl goes back together in order.

A floor panel with its grid position.

Build and assembly

Step 4 of 5

We joined the panels with a hot stapler, melting metal staples across every seam, wall to wall and across the floor. Then we ground the staple legs down on the inside of the bowl.

A hot stapler welds two wall panels.
Grinding the staple legs down inside.
A staple melted across a seam.
Welding the floor around the divider.
Fitting a tall wall panel.
Welding the curved outer wall.
The team working around the bowl.
Staple legs inside, before grinding.

The final build

Step 5 of 5

The bowl came together as one piece, 1200 mm across, in plain white PLA as ordered, with its S-shaped divider splitting it into two halves.

From above, the two halves of the pot.

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