Garden Watering Spout for Bottles Using Tinkercad

Intro: 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

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

Comments

[Doglover 8D]

Great and easy! How long did the 3D-printing take?

[Yessidays]

Thanks a lot! I used a 0.8mm nozzle to speed things up a little bit and it took about 1 hour. If you prefer to use a 0.4mm nozzle it will take about 2 and a half hours.

[cirena]

"Partly Cloudy" :)
Soft and nice, local, mini rain.

[weltweites]

Just one quetion, how about the bottle cap ?
For what kind of bottles is this ? European or US/Canada ?

[Yessidays]

I tried it in different bottles of water and Coke from the US and they fit perfectly.
I'm not sure if the European thread is the same, but you can always flip the design 180° and print only the first centimeters of the thread, this way you can fit test the thread without wasting time or plastic. I hope that's helpful!

[weltweites]

Thanx for your reply !!!
Great tip, i will test that.

[mikecz]

Thank you! Looks like this will be my very first 3-D printed project.

[Yessidays]

That's awesome! Best of luck on your 3D printing journey!

[Aaaecm]

Fabulous! I have just joined the 3D printing set. This looks like a great project. Can't wait to try it out. Off to get more filament. Well written directions too. Clear and easily followed. Thanks for posting!

[Yessidays]

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

[charlessenf-gm]

Brilliant!

[Yessidays]

Thank you!!

[jessyratfink]

Such a great idea! Looks like a great spout too - like giving your plants a mini rainfall :D

[Yessidays]

Haha yeah! I think my plants are enjoying it! lol