A 150 mm bowl with a scalloped rim and a honeycomb net, 27 mm tall. It sits flat on its wide, gently curved bottom, so it works as a catch-all for keys, coins and earbuds by the door, or as a light decorative bowl on a shelf.
Made with our mesh former. The net prints flat, with no supports, in about two hours. You then warm it with a heat gun or a hair dryer, lay it in the printed cavity and push the printed plug down on it. The net stretches into a 24 mm deep bowl and keeps that shape once it cools, while the thicker rim holds the scalloped outline.
The press is printed once and forms as many bowls as you like, so a second bowl in another colour costs one more net. The zip has the net, the plug, the cavity, a print sheet and the outline as an SVG 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 bowl in front of the two press halves, not a photo.
What you need
- About 15 g of PETG for the net, and 175 g of PLA for the press
- A heat gun, or a hair dryer on its hottest setting (slower, but it works)
- Heat resistant gloves, or a folded towel to press the plug with
How to make it
- 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.
- Push the plug straight down into the cavity and hold it for about a minute while the net cools.
- Lift the plug and take the bowl out. Warm and press again any part of the net that did not form fully.
| Type | Print only |
|---|---|
| Total print time | 12 h 9 min |
| Printed parts | 3 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 150 x 150 x 27 mm |
| Filament | ~187 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 10% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Printer | Sliced with PrusaSlicer 2.7.2 at MK3S speeds: 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers, 2 walls, 10% infill. Net 2 h 9 min and 15 g, in PETG (PLA works but has a narrow forming window). Plug and cavity 10 h and 172 g together, in PLA, printed once; a fast CoreXY printer does them in about half that. Size is the finished bowl; the press halves are 158 x 158 mm. No supports. |
| Download | ZIP: flat net + press plug + press cavity (STL) + outline (SVG) + print sheet |
| Added | 2026-09-24 |
ZIP: flat net + press plug + press cavity (STL) + outline (SVG) + print sheet
Free for personal use. Selling the pieces you cast needs a commercial licence (Pro or Founder); passing on the file itself is not permitted on any plan. Full terms.
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