Dice holder homeproject

This was a smaller project that revolves around getting used to all of the general functions of Inventor 2020, was done in a small weeks time and does not come with a technical drawing of it, since this is not planned to be made into a real life version, but to be an exercise in 3D modeling.

The following was made in AutoCAD inventor 2020 and took a small week to get it all done and put together.

The goal of this project was inspired by on of my friends attempt at making dice from our D&D campaign. Through his examples of how it can be done, I chose to make my own version of his idea, and as a bonus, design my own little box for them.

In the first part I made the dice out from what are the official sizes of these types of dice. Credits go to the guy on reddit that showed me the link to it: http://www.dice.co.uk/outlines.htm From these numbers I made the dice. D20 took 3 hours, d12 took 2 hours, d10 took 4, d8 took 1 hour, d6 took 10 min., d4 took 15 min. and finally the d100 took ½ a minute, since it was just a d10 with extra zeros. after making the die, added the numbers so they would show the right number in relation to the ret of the die. I also at a later point, doing feature creep, made a d2, that follows the official size of a US 50 cent. The last two pictures are of how they ended up sitting in the dice holder i made.

The overall worktime for this part of my project took about 3 days of trail and error. where i wasn't working 8 hours a day.

after making the dice and being happy with how they turned out, I made the holder as a following step.

I started with the base. It would end up holding both the dice and a tower they could fall down from. Following came the shape that would keep the dice at place. This part is numbered in frequency of use, with the d20 at the most used spot. Note the CR reference. Finally I added the tower itself. The final version has a slide it falls down on, and a leg for stability.

Total worktime for each part was:

Base: 2 hours.

Dice keep: 6* hours. (a lot of the design ended being striped to make it more intuitive)

Tower: 1 hour.

in total i used 1 days work on it.

Following came the top part of the box, that would keep it all in place while in transit.

The first picture here is of how the cover ended up looking, with a place to keep notes and a gate at the end, note that it's possible to see the locking mechanism in this photo, but will show up later.

First the cover itself. It has rails on it, so it can be slid in place before the gate slams down on the end. The gate is made to simply make it so it cant move in the horisontal directions, while the L-shaped railings on the cover keeps it in place on the lateral directions. The gate is hollowed out to make space to the foot of the tower, that otherwise would stick out.

Finally for the last part, was what kept the cover together; the pins and the lock. The lock would move about 20 mm, so it wouldn't cover the gate, making the horizontal movement possible. making it possible to slide the cover off. The pins that keeps the tower and gate in place would simply be hammered into the holes in the wood, this would keep the pins from falling out, with the side effect that it would make it a bit harder to open these parts of the dice holder.

With these relatively easy parts, the pins took about 30 seconds together to make and the lock mechanism was one of the last parts i made, so this part was made relatively quick at about 30 min.

This little project was a lot of fun for me, designing, redesigning and coming up with nice little features took about a week, where I was working about 4 hours a day, making more some of the days then the others. Hardest bit was figuring out how best to make the dice, learning a lot more about the loft function, and using the remainder of the week, reteaching myself how to make an animation in inventor of my assembly. The animation took me the remainder of that week to make.