Decorative Ornament Cage

For my entry in 3D Printed Ornament Challenge I wanted to build off of a christmas decoration that most of us already own dozens of, glass ball ornaments. To make the ornament cage easy to print, I designed it in two halves that easily slide together and then swivel closed around the ornament.

If you'd like to see more pictures of the design and what it looked like on the print bed, check out the supplemental picture section.

Step 1: Make It Your Own

My biggest hope is that this design will be used as a basis for more ornament cage designs. Due to the short time allowed for this contest, I only made one pattern, candy cane stripes, but I already have a couple more patterns in mind. If you have a couple ideas yourself, run with it. I'd love to see what y'all come up with.

Feel free to build on, change, or just have fun with this design, and if you're interested in collaborating on a new pattern, send me a message.

Step 2: Supplemental Pictures

Further Steps:

Looking at the first picture of this section, you can see that the cage looks pretty neat on its own. To show off the effect of seeing both sides at once, you could do one of two things.

1. Use a clear ornament
2. Remove the top of an ornament and use it to suspend the cage by itself.

Comments

[josephgregorydelong]

This design is awesome! I am really surprised you didn't make the finals.

[Porda]

Thanks Joseph,

Honestly, I checked the list twice because I couldn't believe yours wasn't on there. Our ornaments might not get on the White House Christmas tree, but they'll definitely be going on mine.

[BLASTFEMI]

Cute design!

[Porda]

Thank you myrrhmaid. I like your microwave dyeing instructable by the way.

[Coldfire1215]

Epic! I love it!

[Porda]

Thanks Coldfire :)

[jackiez]

Sooo cool!

[Porda]

Thanks jackiez :)

I like your Obama Dog ornament by the way.

[seamster]

Very nice! One of my favorite ornament so far!

Well done.

[Porda]

Hi seamster,

Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot coming from a Community Manager like yourself.

[Danger is my middle name]

This is a great idea to protect breakable ornaments and it still looks pretty! Nice job!

[Porda]

Hey Danger,

Thanks for the comment. I didn't really think about until you mentioned it, but this would be a great protective item. It's funny when you just tunnel vision on a design and don't think about it's full potential.