3D printed Broken Heart Duo lip balm container tutorial

Two days ago I started designing this cute Broken Heart duo lip balm container. I don't know where I got this idea from or where I have the inspiration from. It just came up in my head to make this.

First I sketched a half heart shape (Sketch > Spine) and mirrored it ( Sketch > Line > X)

Then I extruded it to the height I wanted. (Create > Extrude)

I sketched few lines for the heart to be broken.

Then I Split the body first in two. (Modify > Split body)

Now I have two bodies, but I want the heart to have have lids. So I split the two bodies again. (Sketch > Line > Modify > Split Body)

I hided the left and right lids so I can work on the two containers. I sketched two holes the same size and extruded them both. ( Sketch > Circle > Extrude > operation: Cut). You also see two bigger circles that I offset with 3mm.

The two bigger circles I also extruded for the threads.

For the containers to be able to open and close I threaded the holes. (Create > Thread)

I did the same for the holes of the lids.

Now they are all threaded.

I sketched already a mini heart shape and saved it as a DXF file so I just had to insert the file. I also offset the mini heart.

Unfortunately I couldn't Copy Paste or Move the mini heart, so I had to insert the DXF file manually.

Later on I extruded the outer hearts with 1.5mm

For the containers to be able to connect I created holes for the magnets. I have some magnets that I measured and I gave some space around for the magnets to be able to be inserted in the holes. I gave it 0.25mm space. I think that should be enough.

Now comes the difficult part because this part is new to me. I wanted to have diamonds around the broken heart so I had to make holes around the heart shape. I know how to do it with a flat surface or round surface. But this is not flat or round, it has many different uneven angles. So it took me a while to find out how.

First I created a circle and extruded it, so it is a new body.

Later on I moved the body with 1mm to the body inside. Then I Combined it with operation Cut. I kept the body so I can use it for making a pattern.

I created a pattern using that circle I extruded before. (Create > Pattern > Pattern on Path > Orientation: Path Direction). The last one, Path Direction I found out after looking very long how to. I am happy I found it!

Now I just need to hide the many round bodies by clicking them.

I did the same pattern for the lower parts.

Now it is done!

I am very happy with the result, but I am worried about printing them because they have sharp angles and from experience I know, that the printed parts will create Wrapping. In my next post I will show you the printed parts full with diamonds and duo lip balms inside!