3-d Printed Board Game - Designing and Printing

3-d modelled hexagon board game
Learning and using tinker cad to design the board and the pieces. I am trying to figure out the best way to get the magnets into the pieces after printing. Snap together pieces where I print 2 parts a top and bottom might work best. I would like the hexagons to be able to represent many different aspects of the game and also be stackable.
The parts are taking longer than I thought to print so I cut down the hexagon to just one section of the hexagon to test out different methods of inserting magnets. The snap together design is a bit finicky for my 3-d printer. Also the way I've designed them once I press them together they do not come apart unless you break the pieces. This is good in a way that they will not come apart but bad for prototyping. Perhaps just pressing the magnets through holes that leads into a cavity inside the hexagon would work. If the magnets are slightly smaller and the hole is on a diagonal maybe that would be enough to prevent the magnets from falling out.
3-d printed hexagon board game prototype


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  • Matt Gauzza