Simple Open-source Dice Tower

Overview

Yay! my first (real) render I have done, and I think it turned out quite well.

The dice in the render are standard 16mm dice, for size reference.

 I have made this unique 3d printable dice tower that is the most user friendly and customizable one. 

I had some major issues with some dice towers and one of them is the noise! Dice towers can be really noisy, and usually people add felt to the inside to reduce it, but many of these dice towers are closed, and you can't do this. with my dice tower, you can easily add felt reducing the noise to a minimum, for the best game night experience!

The overall shape is designed to be as sturdy as possible to reduce and negate any damage that could be reflected onto the dice. this allows the dice to be nice and secure, whilst not losing any space for adding dice. This was another major issue for some others as some are just for aesthetics, whist mine is for both aesthetics, full functionality and portability. 

This was originally designed in Onshape, here is the link to the public document. Onshape is free to use, so try it out!

Printing steps

1. the dice tower is designed to be printed in pieces and snapped together. there is a little bit of assembly required, but only with your hands. 

2. orient the pieces as followed:

The body is laid flat.

Lid is like this

Top lid like this.

3. Print settings

Normal

Layer height - 0.2mm

infill - 10%

Filament - PLA

Strong

Layer height - 0.2

Infill - 20%

Filament - PLA or PETG

Speedy

Layer height - 0.3mm

Infill - 10%

Filament - PLA

Using the normal setting will be strong enough, but if you want to print faster, or even stronger I also added a couple down below that result basically the same. 

Note: I have yet to print this yet and may make some changes if recommended by people. Also, it is quite a long print (roughly about 13hrs for base, 2 hrs. for top lid and 8 hrs. for lid, depending on your settings, I also have a small and slow printer. for people with the bamboo labs, or k1s, or Prusa mk4, it is quite fast), with using a reasonable filament amount, but will give you the strongest box out there.  

Thanks for reading if you made it so far! I also just wanted to render something and saw this competition as fun. There are plenty of great boxes out there, you just have to print what suits you. 

Happy Making everyone and stay creative!