Benchy in a bottle

Benchy in a bottle for dual Color printing.


The bottle needs supports for a clean print result.
The wall of the bottle is very thin you might have to adapt your layer width, layer height and minimal outlines settings. Adaptive layer height might help.


It is hard to get the bottle clear due to the layer lines on the rounded surface, the lower the layer height the clearer the bottle.
Mine turned out pretty opaque with a 0.2 mm layer height, to show the boat clearly I had to sink it into water.
The water has a closer IOR (Index of Refraction) to the PLA than air therefore the refraction is less. It also fills the iregularities of the surface due to layer lines and lowers the amount of optical surfaces.

Smoothing the bottle would be another methode to make it clearer, it might be difficult due to the thin wall of the bottle.



You need to import both models individual into your slicer.
The Model origins are placed that the models arrange themselfes perfectly.
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