Design into 3D: Games: Chinese Checkers

WillAdams · August 31, 2019, 12:43am

Began working this up:

Next up is determining additional features (Suggestions? Planning on borders and compartments for marbles/pins), implementing pins vs. marbles, saving the JSON, importing that, and working up the METAPOST code.

WillAdams · August 31, 2019, 3:08pm

Border works:

WillAdams · August 31, 2019, 6:45pm

And one can now specify drawing in the game pieces:

WillAdams · September 1, 2019, 3:42am

And we have compartments:

The OpenSCAD file takes quite a while to render.

WillAdams · September 7, 2019, 8:08pm

I was able to use a command to project from the OpenSCAD file to get a DXF or SVG — the latter imports as polylines, while the former comes in at the origin.

chinesecheckers.dxf (601.9 KB)

WillAdams · September 8, 2019, 3:09am

and the .dxf imports fine, and a bit of 3D modeling results in:

chinesecheckers_dxf.c2d (1.6 MB)

WillAdams · September 10, 2019, 8:31pm

Posted to Thingiverse:

JayGee · February 17, 2020, 12:15am

Hey Will: This would look neat with a bit larger board and have the rim be a design of 2 to 4 Dragons running around the star!