3D Printed Dice Tower


Over the last few weeks I've been sharing some of our first printing projects with our new 3D printer. This week we made a small dice tower designed for two players with fold down dice trays. We made this design but swapped out the trays for ones that were designed to work better with PLA (the type of plastic we were using). 

We picked up some gray filament this week, and since the tower was designed after a castle tower, we decided to make the tower out of gray and the dice trays in blue.


We set the tower to print without internal supports or fill as there were no instructions to do so. the tower ended up printing a little less sturdy than we're used to, so if we make another, we'll probably adjust that slightly. The dice ramps were especially flexible after printing.


We opted for the dice trays that were designed with little pegs built in instead of using separate printable pegs since commenters had problems with those when printed with PLA. These trays worked perfectly.


We snapped the trays on and cleaned up the little bit of stringy plastic that showed up while printing, and we were ready to give it a try. The dice tower works perfectly for small amounts of dice, but the dice come down it kind of wildly if you're using 5 or 6 dice at a time. This dice tower would be great for games where you only need to roll a dice or two (or even three) at a time. And, since it has two slots at the top, would work great for two-player games. All-in-all another successful print.

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