I suggest using PETG or a little bit more malleable PLA filament for the green parts. Otherwise the leaves will require heating for the bending.
If you use gcode files, skip to point 2. If you use stl files, please separate the patches from the leaves in a+b_monstera_kit without changing their position on the bed. Export separately white patches and green leaves. White patches should be printed without the skirt. Green parts should be printed with 100% alligned rectilinear infill, parallel to the leaf petiole and turned off top and bottom layers.
Print at first the white patches (a_monstera_kit). IMPORTANT: don't remove the model before printing the second part of the plant!!! Remove only the strip printed in the front of the bed, which isn't part of the model.
Print the second part (b_monstera_kit) over the previous one. It should melt into the white patches filling the spaces inbetween.
When this print is finished you can remove the model from the bed.
The pot and the dirt are printed normally.
Assembly:
Put the pieces of the pot together, by attaching the vertical parts around the dirt part. When all of the walls are connected, mount the whole piece onto the base. Sometimes it needs a little bit more force to snap the parts in place. You should hear the click when they lock in place.
IMPORTANT: If the leaves were printed with brittle filament, the creasing point will require heating to be folded. I bent one of my plants over the handle. The twigs should be folded where the grooves are.
The leaves are threaded through the holes with a piece of filament, which should be long enough to stick out from the bottom. It's lower part should be mounted inside one of the holes in the ground.
To create a more lush plant you can combine multiple kits and attach the stems to the same pot
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