Dice Tower

A follow on from my previous make; I had silk filaments in various colours left over from a Christmas project, and some packs of multi-coloured dice sets, so... dice tower rainbow!

Pretty happy with this! I printed the cover laying down so I could layer in some TPU to quiet the rolls a bit and add a bit more grip for rolling. I'm not a super huge fan of the nubs to lock the cover on. They're a bit pointy, but otherwise the fit and finish are great! Everything snapped together nicely.

Printed in Prusa Galaxy Purple, Atomic Filament White, and generic white TPU.

I measured the performance of the tower against standard simple rolls onto a hard table with a cheap D6. The Chi-Squared p-value for the tower is a bit better than the table, indicating it made the die rolls more fair, so it works as good as it looks!

This is such a great design - looks great as well as being very practical! After seeing the make by @Raymond, I printed the lower "drawer" section (the bit that catches the dice) flat rather than vertically so that I could paint the bottom of the drawer in the slicer to match the colour of the "tower" part. I'm usually not a fan of multi-colour prints because of the wastage, but this required very little in the way of filament swaps. Because of the printing orientation with regard to the layers, I was slightly concerned about strength of the drawer at the hinges, so I also printed a couple of single-layer circles with a concentric fill pattern and superglued them on the insides as reinforcement - so far so good! Apart from that concern (which is of my own making), it all printed great, with no supports required anywhere. Nice work, @DaHouzKat! (edited)

My organic supports came loose near the top and I had to stop the print. Restarted print where I left off, and glued the two parts together. You could hardly tell there was a break. Thanks for sharing your work.

The product itself was great, but I found cleaning out supports was a bit frustrating. Could've been the slicer, so may try again later

Do you have a 3mf (or stl) file for just the tray? I printed the hex box, and don't want to print out the whole solid box just to get the tray. Thanks!

Enlarged it to 125% to handle some larger dice with various board games and it came out great. Had to add internal organic supports so I could use PETG, but they came out easy enough with some coersion.

Came out looking great! I was suprised that the lid printed so well in the orientation seen in the images and it required no supports or brim. I tested it using metal dice (mine are quite hefty) and the tower part has a tendency to rock back and forth when a die is dropped in, and sometimes it closes on itself, so it would be nice if there was some way to lock it in place in the open position but with a bit of technique it works most of the time. Apart from that I will try to reprint one of the bolts as it is a tiny bit loose, irregardless of all that this is a great model!

Has anyone tried using this with metal dice, and does it tip over due to the additional weight of the dice?

Printed excellent! I used -.01 xy compensation after reading how some prints were very tight, and everything popped together easily after printing!

Very solid tower. Had to reprint the bottom tray laying down because first time layers separated at the end of the bulge while opening it.

I love this dice tower. I hate how the hinge pins constantly fall off, even when super-glued in place. It looks fantastic in dual and tri-extrusion filaments, particularly with the various top and bottom patterns. Also, it's a little too hard to open.