A printed home for a tiny plant

A plant and a workshop wanted different conditions

The original brief came from several competing needs: plant-eating cats, a deliberately dry office used for printing, and difficulty maintaining a stable indoor climate through Michigan seasons. I wanted a way to keep a plant in that setting without treating the room and the plant as though they needed identical conditions.

Make the enclosure, not another room

Printed PETG parts and glass covers created a localized enclosure around the plant. It was my first complete Fusion-model-to-print project, and the original post describes multiple iterations before I was satisfied.

The useful design move was to put the boundary around the specific object that needed it. This links the plant problem to the practical work of modeling interfaces and making parts that fit existing covers.

What I would keep improving

The enclosure worked well enough to photograph and use, but I could already see places I wanted to improve. I kept iterating because this was my first complete Fusion-to-print project.