Process

I liked the idea of a geometric design and was able to use the loft tool to easily create the slanted walls of the planter, with the polygon tool for the hexagonal bases. One of the things I was confused about was the size of the planter. I initially made it have a hexagonal edge dimension of 3 inches, but had to go back and resize my design to a 1 inch edge size since that still led to a large hexagon. I used a circular patten to try and make the design more elaborate, but this led to the design not being completely closed. As such, I decided to first print the simpler design and try the complex one if the first one was successful. I've attached a picture of my first print of the hexagonal planter. Unfortunately, there appeared to be holes in the body which led to the printer printing spaghetti instead of a closed planter. 

Moving on from there, I got help from Louise and one of her friends who came in on the last day of class to fix the body and make sure it was now closed. I used the Mesh Mixer program to double check the mesh and ensure that there were no holes.