The Orthanc Tower: "Thicc" Edition (No supports!)

A modified version of an existing Orthanc/Isengard dice tower to print without any supports and fit larger dice.
In the contest Dice Towers
558
2056
22
9220
updated November 29, 2024

Makes

Comments

Printed in PLA black and silk PLA gold, with 0.6 mm nozzle and 0.36 mm layer height, no supports. Overall a great print. The top surface is set to Hilbert curve to mimic the tiled pavement.

Color change was done manually with a timed pause and carriage home and resume. Not all the letters start at the same height, take care when choosing the color change height.

Some of the finer details of the smaller text was lost, partly because of the larger nozzle, partly because of a slight shift during the color change.

Image preview
Image preview
Image preview
Image preview

Love the design, I was just curious if it was at all possible to get Isengard alone and fully solid if possible? Thanks :)

Unfortunately downloaded from Creality's Site and not here, but printed very well.

Nozzle: .4
Filament: Creality 1.75 mm Black PETG
Layer Height: .15
Infil: 45% (Wanted it to have some HEFT)
Speed:
- First Layer: 40 mm/s
- Outer Wall: 200 mm/s
- Inner Wall: 300 mm/s
Support: None

I don't really like how the flat tops came out, but that's not an issue with the print, that's an issue with my settings. (edited)

Image preview
Image preview
Image preview

Amazing print. As others have said i had to scale it down to 88% to fit on my mk4s becacuse of the Z height. It still fits normal D20's without issue. I printed it in Prusament PLA Galaxy Silver with the 0.4mm high flow nozzle with 0.2mm layer height and structural setting. No supports needed.

Image preview
Image preview
Image preview
Image preview

Had to scale it down to 88% on the MK4S due to the height, but it can still accommodate "standard" DnD dice. Looks great on 0.4 mm nozzle and 0.2 mm layer height

Image preview

Its awesome model! Excelent job!! 6 stars from five!

Image preview
Image preview

I made this for my DM for Christmas, and he loves it! Supports are not necessary, prints beautifully without them!

Infill: 20%
Layer Height: 0.2 mm
Filament: Creality 1.75 mm Black PLA
Speed: 50 mm/s
Support: No
Adhesion: Brim

Image preview

Love the design, thank you! Any chance you could share a version without _raised_ "the lord of the rings" words , such that the "the lord of the rings" is flush against the surface of where the dice would roll? I'm afraid the raised words will cock the dice too often. I love the text and if the text was flush on the surface, we could still paint it or use a multi-color print. What do you think?

update: I printed the model and it looks great! However, my dice were jumping over the tall fence, though. I took some slow-mo videos and it looks like the dice jump over the fence when they hit the raised text as they exit the shoot (thus bouncing them up and out over the fence). It would be very cool to try a version with flush text to see if that stops the jumping out. (edited)

Turned out pretty good. My printer had some issue with the tips of each point. The three points on the very top were bad enough where I decided to trim them to clean the print up.

Image preview