Container box for The Game

Expansible box for The Game cards.

This design lets you store your deck of cards and keep your game organized.

The box is compact, just a bit larger than the cardboard box where the game comes in, but it expands to a complete board that you can use to organize your game.

Ongoing updates

We are currently improving the documentation for this model. However, feel free to it and let us know any doubts when printing or assembling it. The model is free for personal use. You can our KoFi reseller tiers if you are interested in selling prints of this design.

Non printed parts

The Outer_top and Outer_bottom parts have slots to insert a pair of 25 x 4 x 3 mm magnets to prevent the box from opening when stored in a bag - though this might not be necessary since the closure fits well on its own.

Assembly

Each couple of parts (top and bottom) slide in place to form a single tray. The parts labeled as “inner” have a slot where the corresponding “outer” part can be inserted. Notice the grooves on the sides of the outer parts, and the matching rails on the inner parts.

Once the two trays are assembled, you can place the deck of cards inside and then close the box, inserting the bottom tray into the top one.

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Selling prints of our designs

Please be aware that our designs are available for free for non-commercial purposes only.

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We printed them in our PrusaMini+ using a 0.4 mm nozzle, with 0.42 mm line width.

The inner parts were printed with 0.28 mm layer height, and the outer parts at 0.2 mm height.

Both outer parts have colored inlays and the STL files already include the different parts.

If you print with PrusaSlicer, you can split the bodies into parts to retain the relative positions of the decorations.

Inserting the magnets

The magnets have to be inserted in the Outer_top and Outer_bottom parts while printing.

The .3mf files we are sharing can be opened with PrusaSlicer to have a pre-set M601 Gcode at the right height.

Opening the files with another slicer or don't want to import them as a print project?

You need to add print pause commands (M601 in Marlin FW) at 17.1 mm and 3.7 mm for Outer_top and Outer_bottom, respectively. Check out the attached PDF for more details.

Don't see the cavity for the magnets when slicing?

In the rare case this happens, you need to split the body into parts (using PrusaSlicer: right-click/Split/To Parts), and change the type of the rectangular body in the middle of the parts to “negative volume”. This rectangular body will have a different name assigned to it automatically when you split the main body.

For Outer_bottom, the body representing the cavity should be automatically named as Outer_bottom_v3.stl_1_3 when you split the geometry into parts. For Outer_top, the negative volume should be Outer_top_v3.stl_1_2.