Realistic Daisy

This is a full model of a daisy that can be assembled. Print out about two of these to form a full flower.

Steps:

1. Print about two batches of flowers.
2. (Optional) Take a wood burner and add texture to the semicircle to make it look more like a flower center
3. Take the smallest petals and burn them in half “hamburger style” so you have two halves. Take a half and burn it onto the large half of the cone, it helps to burn a little section then add onto that.
4. Continue on increasing petals on the cone, when layering the petals burn the smaller ones closer to the top. for the largest petals overlapping the petals will make the flower look more full. you can also add a second petal ring of large petals to make it look fuller
5. To secure everything I like to run the wood burner around the bottom section, and if you have green filament you can color it by adding a bit of green filament to the bottom.
6. Take a heat gun and lightly wedge the large petals on a table, then heat form them so that the petals form straight. With this step, it is important to work fast, and in sections, hold the heat gun far away from the petals as they can curl with too much heat.
7. Take some wire, a stick, filament, or whatever you want as a stem, burn a hole in the bottom of the flower so it's covered in filament goop, and insert the stem
8. Enjoy a 3D-printed flower my mom genuinely thought was real.

Notes:

1. woodburning plastic causes fumes that are not good for you, never do this with ABS or any other filament that is super toxic.
2. You need to ventilate your workspace, your best bet would be to get a soldering fume extractor but at the very least a desk fan with a towel over it.
3. If you see fumes turn off your woodburner to reduce the heat. It's a constant battle of heat and fumes
4. The wood burner will discolor your filament so try to reduce touching the petals with the Woodburner
5. Assemble with the smooth side pointing towards the center.
6. If you are a child don't do this, the possibility of burns is very high.
7. The flower takes about 1 hour to assemble.
8. The full flower prints in a full ender 3 build volume, but leads to more failures, I have had no failures with the small flower file.
9. You can print with nozzles from .4 - .8 easily and could probably get away with different nozzles with worse results, the flower in the picture was printed with a .8 nozzle.
10. Bed adhesion is very important.

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