Build a cactus

A potted saguaro: Overlap planting, a ring-made bulge, and an arm that turns upward.

Comfortable — Know your way around the tools 6 steps

Video coming soon — the written walkthrough below is the whole build.

Written walkthrough

The cactus packs three little techniques into one plant: a rim, a bulge, and the L-shaped arm.

1. Stamp the pot

A Cylinder, short and wide, on open floor.

2. Flare the pot lip

In Nudge, tap near the pot’s top and press Wider once for a proper terracotta rim.

3. Plant the cactus

Flip the contact switch to Overlap, pick a taller, thinner Cylinder, tap the pot, Stamp. The cactus sinks down into the pot instead of balancing on its rim.

4. Round the body

Straight cylinders read as pipes. Slice a ring mid-cactus, then press Wider once. That gentle mid-bulge is what makes it read organic. (This is the app’s inflate: slice a ring where the shape should swell, then widen it.)

5. Grow an arm

In Grow, tap a face on the cactus’s side and press Out , then tap the top face of the stub and Out again. The arm turns upward, saguaro-style. The mirror doubles it if you want a matched pair.

6. Color it

Terracotta pot, green body, and one tiny flower dotted on top in Paint .

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