Design a vase
- Pick a profile and size.
- Style it — section, twist, texture.
- Print in vase mode or with walls.
This free tool designs a vase or planter and exports it ready to print. Pick a profile, set the height and width, choose a cross-section, add a twist and a texture, then export a solid for spiral vase mode — or a pot with real walls, a drain hole and a saucer. It shows how much it holds and roughly how much filament it takes.
New — 9 November 2026: first version. Written by Ned Walsch.
| Vase mode | Walls / planter | |
|---|---|---|
| What you export | A solid shape | A hollow pot |
| Slicer setting | Spiral vase / spiralize on | Normal |
| Speed and look | Fast, seamless | Slower, one seam |
| Strength | One line: light, can dent | As thick as you set |
| Water | Seeps — use a glass insert | Better; coat for plants indoors |
A slicer setting ("Spiral vase" in Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer and PrusaSlicer, "Spiralize outer contour" in Cura) that prints the bottom layers and then one continuous spiral wall, with no seams and no travel. It is fast and looks clean, but the wall is a single line, so the model you slice is a solid shape — which is what this tool exports in vase mode.
Not reliably on its own: water seeps between the layers of a single-wall print over hours or days. For fresh flowers put a glass vial or jar inside, or coat the inside with food-safe epoxy. A vase printed with walls (2–3 lines, 100 % infill in the base) holds water far better but can still weep. Dried flowers need nothing.
Pick "Planter" under Print: the tool gives the pot real walls and a base, cuts a drain hole in the middle of the base (10 mm by default) and adds a matching saucer as a separate part. Print both in PETG if they will live outdoors.
Turn on spiral vase mode, set 3–5 bottom layers, and if your slicer allows, a wider line (0.6–0.8 mm with a 0.4 mm nozzle) for a stiffer wall. Avoid sides that lean more than about 50° from vertical; the tool warns you when a shape goes past that.
With walls, the inner surface is the outer one moved inward by the wall thickness, corrected for how much the profile leans, so the wall stays even on slopes. Deep grooves are cut into the outside, so the wall is thinner at the bottom of each groove — keep the groove depth below the wall thickness.
Yes. The designs you make here are yours to print, give and sell.