Mosspole

A stackable moss pole for climbing plants. Change the settings and the model renders again.

Lock bayonet Keeps the settings the bayonet depends on, so what you make next stacks with what you made before.

Moss pole

Web

Pole count locked

Fit locked ⌀ mm

Pole height mm

Pole base locked ⌀ mm

Pole top locked ⌀ mm

Twist °

Node swell locked mm

Node length mm

Pole flare mm

Struts

Strut angle °

Strut bow mm

Joint fillet mm

Strut fillet mm

Columns

Omit bottom

1 2 3 4

Omit top

1 2 3 4

Close columns

1 2 3 4

Column wall mm

Ring and bayonet

Ring shape

Flat side

Bayonet

Polygon twist

Bayonet off

Ring fillet locked mm

Lock lip locked mm

Lock clearance locked mm

Lock detent mm

Watering pipe

Watering pipe Pipe outlets

Water pipe ⌀ mm

Web. What joins the poles: zigzag struts; a web of cells, scattered like a Voronoi diagram, regular like a honeycomb, or diamonds like a trellis; a skin with holes; branching vines; or spirals winding both ways. Or, the same for every web, a short test piece of the bayonet: the ring, short straight poles and heads; or the top ring, which locks onto the heads of the topmost moss pole and closes it off.

The same moss pole with each web; everything else stays the same, so moss poles with any web stack.

Pole count. Number of poles: 3 for a triangle, 4 for a square, and so on.

Three, four and six poles. The poles stand on one circle, so with more of them the faces between them get narrower.

Fit. Everything fits inside a circle this wide.

The circle in orange takes in the ring and the poles, which move in or out with it.

Pole height. Overall height, heads included.

The orange bar shows it. The moss pole above sits on the shoulders under the heads, so a stack grows by a little less than this per moss pole.

Pole base. Pole diameter at the base.

Here with 10 mm at the top: the poles taper upwards, most of it low down. The struts are as thick as the thinner end.

Pole top. Pole diameter at the top; below the base for a taper.

Here with 10 mm at the bottom. The top also sets the heads, so the keyholes and the ring's height follow it.

Twist. How far the poles turn around the centre between their ends, in steps of 360 / pole_count, so that each head comes back over a pole's place: positive anticlockwise seen from above, negative clockwise, 0 for straight poles. Every web but the struts stays still.

On four poles: a quarter turn clockwise, none, and a quarter and a half turn anticlockwise.

Node swell. Extra pole radius at the shoulders, where the moss pole above sits, and at each strut joint.

A pole close up, where the struts join it.

Node length. Length of each swelling.

A pole close up, where the struts join it, with a swelling of 3 mm.

Pole flare. How far along a strut or rib it widens into the poles, to meet them with their full diameter, like a fillet; 0 for none.

Strut angle. Angle between the struts and the vertical, along their arc.

Steeper struts sit closer together; flatter ones need more support while printing.

Strut bow. Bow of each strut at mid-span, along the pole circle.

In a cut across the moss pole where a strut runs halfway between two poles; the dashed line runs straight from pole to pole.

Joint fillet. Fillet radius where struts meet the poles; only keeps the struts clear of the ring above here.

The shoulders in orange, where the ring of the moss pole above sits: a larger value moves the topmost joints down.

Strut fillet. How far the rounding between two struts where they meet at a pole reaches along each; 0 for none.

Cell width. Width of a cell around the pole circle, roughly: it is adjusted so that a whole number of cells goes round.

Cell height. Height of a cell; taller cells have steeper ribs, and cells too low for the overhang are made taller.

Irregularity. How far the cells stray from a regular honeycomb (0 makes it one), or the spirals from even spacing.

Pattern. Which random pattern scatters the cells or the spirals, or grows the vines.

Another number gives another random pattern of the same kind.

Rib. Diameter of the ribs, or of the vines.

Fillet reach. How far the rounding of the corners between ribs or vines reaches along each; less on short ribs, so the radius follows the corner's angle and room.

Web overhang. Steepest overhang a rib or the top of a hole may have, from the vertical; the corners of flatter cells move apart up and down.

Lower values make steeper, taller cells that print without support. Shown on the Voronoi web.

Skin thickness. Thickness of the skin.

In a cut across the moss pole halfway up.

Hole width. Width of the holes in the skin.

Hole height. Height of the holes, from their round bottom to their pointed top; holes too short for their point are made taller.

Hole land. Skin left between the holes, at least.

Between two holes, and between a hole and a pole.

Spirals cw. Spirals that wind clockwise, seen from above, as they rise.

Spirals ccw. Spirals that wind anticlockwise as they rise.

Spiral angle. Angle of the spirals from the vertical; it stays within the overhang.

Spiral rungs cw. Rungs per round that hang from each clockwise spiral straight down to the next spiral below.

Here with no spirals the other way. Where a pole, a crossing or the ring is in the way, a rung slides along its spiral or is left out.

Spiral rungs ccw. Rungs per round that hang from each anticlockwise spiral straight down to the next spiral below.

Here with four spirals the other way: the rungs split the openings between the crossings.

Spiral rungs square. Set the rungs square to their spirals instead of straight up; under spirals flatter than 90 deg less the web overhang, as near square as it allows.

Straight up and square to their spirals, here two per round on four spirals one way.

Vine count. Number of vines climbing from the ring.

Vine lean. How far the vines lean from the vertical as they climb, winding round the moss pole.

Vine wave. How far the vines meander to either side.

Branching. How often the vines branch: to a neighbouring vine or into a short tendril.

Omit bottom. Struts to leave out at the bottom of each column, for columns 1 to 8. A column is the stretch between two neighbouring poles; column 1 has the watering pipe, and the others follow anticlockwise seen from above.

Here in column 1, for a pot's rim or a plant's stem.

Omit top. Struts to leave out at the top of each column, for columns 1 to 8.

Close columns. Close each column with a thin wall on the inside of its struts or ribs, from the ring to the shoulders, for columns 1 to 8. Column 1 has the watering pipe, and the others follow anticlockwise seen from above.

Column 1 closed: its wall holds soil or moss.

Column wall. Thickness of the walls that close columns.

Ring shape. Shape of the ring: round; a polygon with a corner at each pole, a triangle for 3 poles, a square for 4 and so on; or a D, the circle with a straight side, a half circle at most; the struts or the web follow it.

Flat side. How far a D ring's straight side lies from the centre, as a share of the pole circle's radius: 0 for a half circle, more for less cut off.

Bayonet. How the moss pole above locks on: turned round the centre (on a polygon ring the curved slots run out of its straight sides, open along their outer side), or, on a polygon ring, slid along the side clockwise of the watering pipe's, towards the pipe's side, which keeps the start of the slide clear of the pipe and the moss poles square to each other; on the pipe's side the slots run out through the corners, open at their ends.

A polygon ring cut through its lip, seen from above: turned, the slots from the entry holes curve round the centre; slid, they all run straight the same way.

Polygon twist. How the poles twist on a polygon ring: along its outline, so that seen from above they and the struts stay within the ring; or round the pole circle, with the struts on flat faces from pole to pole that turn with them.

Bayonet off. Leave out the bayonet at an end: the keyholes in the ring at the bottom, for a moss pole that stands on the pot floor; the necks and heads at the top, for the topmost moss pole, whose poles then reach the full height; or both, for one that stands alone.

Above, the tops of the poles; below, the ring's underside at a pole, where the keyhole is.

Ring fillet. Fillet radius where the poles meet the ring.

Lock lip. Thickness of the ring's lip, held between the shoulders and heads below.

In a cut through a locked head, the moss pole below in green. The heads' necks grow with it.

Lock clearance. Play around the necks and heads in the keyholes.

Lock detent. How much narrower than a neck the slot gets at the detent.

Two bumps (orange) narrow each slot just before the lock position, so the neck of the moss pole below (6 mm) squeezes past them and clicks into place: at 0 it only touches, at 1 it snaps firmly and turns hard. The ring cut through its lip, seen from above.

Watering pipe. Build the watering pipe.

The watering pipe stands inside one face, from the bed up to the shoulders, where it meets the pipe of the moss pole above.

Pipe outlets. Openings at the foot of the pipe, to let the water out into the soil.

Water pipe. Inner diameter of the watering pipe.