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Submit Your 3D Models to The Game Crafter

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Fri, 11/05/2021 - 16:54
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The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - 3D Models and How to Submit Them to The Game Crafter

The Game Crafter makes its own plastic game pieces using a 3D print farm. The parts made on the farm are to supply stock components to our parts catalog. At some point in the future we may also open it up to make custom parts for your games, but we do not offer that at this point except through Laboratory. Though you can’t make parts specifically for your game, if you would like to contribute models to The Game Crafter’s parts catalog, we do accept model donations. However, they must conform to some rules.

Learn more at:
https://help.thegamecrafter.com/article/509-designing-for-3d-printing

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Sat, 11/06/2021 - 18:24
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Was looking forward to a feature like this

This sounds great. Though I'm nowhere near having actual models, I am curious how far one can go outside the 25mm x 25mm x 25mm cube.

The "rules" say any breach of that cube should be in the Z direction; that is, a model should be able to pass through a 25mm x 25mm square hole. Would something chess-piece-like be feasible, knowing that these could be three or four times the usual height limit of 25mm?

Also, are there any guidelines analogous to the ones for acrylic pieces, as in how they could friction-fit or snap together?

Even if this doesn't meet my specific needs right now, it's still an exciting development and I'll find a way to use it in a future design.

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Tue, 11/16/2021 - 23:33
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Keep in mind that these

Keep in mind that these things are not for "you". They are for you to contribute so that anyone, including you, might be able to use them as well. Which means that if you are submitting a polka dotted giraffe with a bunny head we're likely going to reject it as too specific.

Likewise, we're generally not interested in multi-part pieces that cannot be used on their own, though we may make exceptions for that.

In general you shouldn't go more than 50mm in the Z direction, but exceptions can be made if the piece is useful enough to a lot of people.

I hope that helps. If you have other questions please let us know. Happy to answer any and all questions.

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Wed, 11/17/2021 - 03:13
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Not for "me"

Thanks, what I had in mind at this stage was an alternate style or two of chess pieces, and maybe even some well-known fairy chess pieces if things went particularly well. Chess set sizes are referenced by the height of the king, and the smallest standard chess set size has a 2.5"/63mm king. (The queen is 54mm, bishop 50mm, knight 45mm, rook 37mm, and pawn 33mm)

Sounds like that's at the outer edge of what might be acceptable. The biggest constraint would be designing a knight that can be printed without any support. For comparison, the plastic chess pieces sold on The Game Crafter have a 3.25" king, which is more popular in the chess world than 2.5".

The question about fitting pieces together was aimed at the more distant future when one might be able to spec custom 3D-printed pieces. You saw right through me on that one :)

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