Introduction: Garden Watering Spout for Bottles Using Tinkercad

I wanted to be able to water my plants with a nice and smooth stream of water that wouldn´t drown my plants, so I came up with this easy 3d printed design using Tinkercad. It fits in any bottle with a standard thread and made watering my plants a lot easier!
Here is how I designed it, but in case you want to download the finish file I am adding it too

Supplies

- 3D printer

- PLA Filament

- Bottle of water

Step 1: Let's Start Designing!

I'll start by adding a water cap and a cone from Tinkercad library

Step 2: Shaping the Parts

For the cap I'll erase the first 4mm of the base

For the cone I'll resize it so that the Top Radius matches the cap radius, while the Bottom Radius can be the size you prefer

Step 3: Hollowing Out the Cone

To hollow the cone I'll duplicate it using Ctrl+D and then downsize the duplicated one. I want to have 1.6 mm walls in the cone so I'll downsize it this amount for each side. Remember to also lift 1.6mm the solid cone as We don't want to hollow the bottom part.

Step 4: Adding Holes to the Tip

For this I'm going to add a Honey Comb grid from the Library Shape. You can set the parameters of this shape to your convenience, I went with the smallest, circle shaped pattern in order to get a small and smooth stream for my plants.

Step 5: Trimming the Honey Comb Grid

As I don´t want the hole pattern to reach all the way to the side edges of the spout, I'll create an auxiliary piece that will help me erase the edges. The diameter of the hole of this auxiliary piece should be smaller than the inner cone of the spout.
Once we hollow the auxiliary square, we can align it to the spout and then group the auxiliary part with the holed pattern, this will erase al the excess hole of the edges of the spout.

Step 6: Adding the Threaded Tip to the Spout

Now that the spout is ready I can group it with the threaded part and I'm ready to print!

Step 7: Now the Best Part! It's Print Time!

I went with transparent filament so it matches with the bottle I'll be using lol!

Print settings are pretty stright forward, no supports needed. I used a 0.8 nozzle to speed things up a little bit but 0.4 will do just fine.

Step 8: Let's Test It!

The assembly came out perfect! The thread fits nice and snug which prevents water from escaping through the thread.

Here is the finished STL file

Water Speed Challenge

Second Prize in the
Water Speed Challenge