On Mars: Crystal Tray

The board game On Mars comes with thirty crystal tokens that are just placed on the table. Here is a tray for the crystals to go in during play, and it doubles as a storage container with lid.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Creality

Printer: 

Ender 5

Rafts:

No

Supports: 

No

Resolution:

0.8 mm Nozzle; 0.2 mm Layer Height

Infill: 

Tray: 100%; Lid: 20%

Filament: Paramount 3D; Fillamentum; Prusament; Ender PLA Karnak Sandstone; Iceland Blue; Royal Blue; White

Notes:

The tray used one filament swap. The tray was printed under slicer settings tuned for printing transparent filament, so the infill was 100%.

The lid was printed under standard slicer conditions since the transparent filament layer was so thin. Three filament swaps were done printing the lid to try to best represent the crystal icon from the game.

How I Designed This

The tray and lid were designed in Fusion 360. The crystal logo on the lid was created by doing a screen capture of the online instruction manual PDF blown up on an image of the crystal icon. The image was turned into black and white with GIMP, and converted into an .SVG file using Inkscape. The .SVG file was then imported into Fusion 360 for extrusion. The two pieces were exported as .STL files into MeshMixer.

Category: Games