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Mesh leaf dish
A 130 mm honeycomb leaf dish for keys and trinkets. Print it flat, warm it, press it into shape.
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A 130 mm honeycomb leaf dish for keys and trinkets. Print it flat, warm it, press it into shape.
A leaf shaped dish, 130 mm long with its stem, 59 mm wide and 16 mm deep, with a honeycomb net and a solid rim. The tip curves a little to one side, the way a real leaf does, and the short stem is solid, so you can pick the dish up by it. It holds keys, rings, hair ties or sweets on a hall table or a bedside.
Made with our mesh former. The net prints flat in about 55 minutes, with no supports. Warm it with a heat gun or a hair dryer, lay it in the printed cavity and push the plug down on it, and it keeps the dish shape once it cools. The press is printed once, so a second leaf in another colour costs one more 7 g net.
The zip has the net, the plug, the cavity, a print sheet and the leaf outline as an SVG, which you can drop on the mesh former to change the size, the depth or the net pattern.
Shown as a 3D render of the formed dish in front of the two press halves, not a photo.
Print the net, the plug and the cavity flat on the bed.
Lay the net in the cavity's pocket, flat face down, so the small pins go through the holes in its rim.
Warm the net with the heat gun kept moving 15 to 20 cm away, until it goes limp. Keep the heat off the rim and the stem.
Turn the plug over side to side, like the page of a book (its left edge goes to the right, its top stays at the top), so its flange matches the block. Push it straight down into the cavity and hold it for about a minute while the net cools.
Lift the plug and take the leaf out.
Print details
| Type | Print only |
|---|---|
| Printed parts | 3 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 59 x 130 x 19 mm |
| Print bed needed | 138 x 67 mm, 21 mm tall |
| Filament | ~63 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 10% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Download | ZIP: flat net + press plug + press cavity (STL) + outline (SVG) + print sheet |
| Added | 2026-09-25 |
Made with the free Mesh former generator. Upload your own drawing and get the same kind of part built from it, in your browser.
Free download. Opens the Thingiverse listing in a new tab.
Free for personal use. Selling the printed piece itself needs a commercial licence (Pro or Founder); passing on the file is not permitted on any plan. Full terms.
New to this? Read the mesh former guide.
Anything bigger than the cells, which are about 5 mm across: keys, coins, rings, hair ties, a watch or wrapped sweets. Earring backs, tiny screws and seed beads can slip through, so for those drop the outline on the mesh former and make the cells smaller.
Green reads as a fresh leaf all year. For autumn, print a few in orange, red and gold and set them together on a table, or use a silk or colour changing PLA so each leaf comes out different. The net is only 7 g, so a whole pile of leaves costs very little.
Yes. Lay the leaf flat on white paper, take a photo straight from above and upload it to the mesh former, which traces the outline and builds a net and a matching press for it. A broad, rounded leaf forms best; a leaf with deep, narrow lobes like a maple or an oak stretches the net much thinner over each lobe.
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