Antique Chess Pieces #chess by neoteric

Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago

!!!!Click on the download this thing button, and scroll way down to the bottom. There are rar files for single and dual extrusions. Let me know if I can be of further help!!!!!
Antique Chess Set
This part was made with Tinkercad.
Edit the part online at https://tinkercad.com/things/4vC2GVtlIRM
Tinkercad can actually do some complex modeling, and it takes no time at all to learn it!
This is my chess entry into the contest. My goals were...
...1. to make a set that resembled an antique chess set. It's mostly from memory and Googling. (Yes, the strange queen skirt was on the queen on the real sets. If you Google, you'll see some chess sets that have that on it). I had to cheat in a few places to make sure it was printable, and fit the 70X20mm size, so it is by no means historically correct or even correct within the bounds of physics. But neither were these old sets.
...2. to make it so that you could print in contrasting colors with a dual head extruder. I have included the broken apart STLs (AntiqueKingDEA, AntiqueKingDEB, AntiqueRookDEA, AntiqueRookDEB,etc). I also, in Tinkercad, added tabs for aligning the silver and gold portions if exported separately. They are in the bottom of the chess piece stand. These tabs should help you if you don't want to use my dual extruded STLs. Finally, I added negative space (holes) wherever the different colored items meet, so there is no overlap. Warning... I have never done modeling for dual extrusion, so I might not be doing it right, but from what I have read, this is the way.
...3. to make it printable without support. I think I achieved that mostly. Each model is made up of pieces that have some kind of support or oval beneath them, so it should print pretty well without having to use support. If you need to add support, it’s easy in Tinkercad, just add some elongated spheres, and exacto them off.
...4. highly detailed, so it could be scaled up and still print nicely, or if you don’t have your 3d printer yet, you could order through Ponoko or something. (get a 3d printer)
I also have included a chess board that is elevated to display the pieces if you want to get fancy. I have a broken them up as well so that you can print on a Makerbot cupcake, and I also have provided a dual extrusion version of them. (DEA and DEB at the end of the filename means two items can be combined to make one item) I also included a standard chess board.
If you have a CNC machine, you could use the DEA and DEB full size chessboard files for the chess boards to make a cool wooden chessboard.
I have included a ton of options for people with smaller or bigger platforms, dual extrusion, etc. Since this makes up 50 files, please see the Google docs link readme at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvySsFLIQ3GhdGt6QVloRmZiazBNNlRkdU1lVk9XR3c to better understand what files will work for your needs.
NOTICE! I did not realize the really long filenames would make it so difficult to see which STL is which, so I have added all the STLs to categorized rar files and posted them at the bottom left of the files. Use the rar files and the google docs and it should be very easy to print the models you want!
They are in order posted:
Chess pieces.rar
Chess pieces dual extrusion.rar
Whole chessboards.rar
Whole chessboards dual extrusion.rar
Chessbrds 4 parts.rar
Chessbrds 4 parts dual extrusion.rarEDIT: As I said, I will modify these based on suggestions, what works, etc. Thus, I have modified the queen Tinkercad files so that her arms are a little shorter. Let me know what works and what doesn't and I will fix em!