Travel-size Woodgrain Checkers Set
Travel-size Woodgrain Checkers Set
3D
Published 2020-02-03T06:10:14+00:00
A smallish 8x8 checkerboard for playing English draughts (AKA checkers) and similar games, complete with two armies of 12 draughtsmen and integrated storage for those armies beneath the checkered top. Designed for convenience of assembly and transport. At 210 x 210 mm, it's just small enough to fit on many common print beds such as the Prusa i3 MK2S. The checkered design is printable as a single multi-colored piece on a single-extruder printer. This is achieved through a manual change of filament immediately prior to each of the final two layers. Since there's a tiny height difference between the dark squares, the light squares, and the border, this yields the desired effect.
Print Settings
- Resolution: 0.25 mm
- Infill: 20% Gyroid
- Filament Material: PLA
- Filament Colors: gold, brown, charcoal, black, white
- Perimeters: 3
- Solid Bottom Layers: 4
- Solid Top Layers: 5
- Skirt Loops: 0 (Since this completely fills the print bed of the Prusa i3 MK2S, I have no room for a skirt.)
Fill Patterns
- For bottom of bottom.stl: Octagram Spiral
- For top of draughtsman-*.stl: Hilbert Curve
- For all other surfaces: Rectilinear
Print Quantities
- 1 x top.stl (recommended to start with gold, then switch to brown for the second-to-last layer and charcoal for the last layer)
- 1 x middle.stl (gold recommended)
- 2 x pin.stl (same color as middle.stl)
- 1 x bottom.stl (charcoal recommended)
- 24 x draughtsman-manside.stl (12 black and 12 white recommended)
- 24 x draughtsman-kingside.stl (12 of each color, same as draughtsman-manside.stl, but switch to gold for the two final layers)
Post-Printing
- Using glue and the two printed pins, mount the checkered top on the middle.
- Slide the bottom onto the middle using the integrated rails.
- Glue together the two halves of each draughtsman.
| Date published | 03/02/2020 |
| Dimensions | 210mm x 210mm x 11mm |
| Support Free | YES |