Elevation for Tabletop Gaming Terrain by polldav

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

These are some 3D printable elevation platforms that I made mainly for use with Dwarven Forge terrain. The idea is to be able to build up some pretty high elevation without buying and storing a large number of foam blocks.
I used a screw system instead of pegs or magnets - this way you don't have to do anything other than print the pieces and start using them.
Stilts: I needed to use a brim to print these. I used 3 perimeters and 15% infill, and a 0.20 layer height so the threads would end up mostly OK.
Platforms: I printed these with the same 0.20 layer height, but you could probably get away with 2 perimeters and 10% infill - especially if you fortify the area around the screw holes. You can print these either way depending on preference - I think printing holes-up might be best though.
Regarding the indoor/outdoor scale - Dwarven Forge uses a 25mm grid for "indoor" terrain and a true 1 inch (25.4mm) grid for "outdoor" terrain. This was due to a factory screw up in one of their kickstarters years ago, so now it's just how it is. So that's why there are two different version of the platform - indoor is essentially 25mm, and outdoor is 1 inch scale.
The first time you try and screw them together it might be pretty difficult, but once you do it a handful of times it will smooth out any rough spots in the threads and become much easier to work with. I also included the OpenSCAD files if you want - you'll have to install the threadlib library to use it, but I included a tolerance setting that you can either increase or decrease for a better fit depending on your 3D printer.
If you have any requests for different stilt heights or platform sizes let me know, I wasn't sure exactly what other sizes would be the most useful for people.