If you are a fan of board games or have a board game business, it would seem crazy to be able to make your own scenery with a 3D printer .

 

This, which a few years ago could be little more than a dream, has become a perfectly accessible reality thanks to the proliferation of new set designs specifically designed to be printed in 3D .

 

Whether you like to play or if you are a professional of this, stay because you will like this article.

Can scenery be printed with a 3D printer?

Of course it can! 3D Printers Point offer enough resolution to print elements for your boards, in many sizes and with different finishes .

A conventional filament printer can print items up to 20-40cm with good resolution. The resin printing DLP can print at much higher resolution, although smaller pieces (could even print thumbnails 3D). And there is also laser cutting , there are many scenery designs for laser cutting.

One of the games that most application has 3D printing is those in which the board is divided into tiles ( tiles ) . Here the possibilities of creating unique cells are endless.

 

Depending on the game, the scenery will adopt one format or another to adapt to the rules of each one and facilitate the game. Probably the most popular game, and thanks to which this 3D printed scenery has become fashionable, be it Dragons and Dungeons or Dungeons and Dragons in English. In this game many elements are sized in 5x5ft cells, so all the scenery designed for this game follows a 5x5ft design pattern to make it more intuitive to move around and play in general.

 

Although it is common to see scenery already assembled like the one we have shown you before, the vast majority of the time the scenery is designed in blocks or modules (which are usually scaled to have a size of 5 × 5 feet, as we have mentioned before) . These blocks or modules can be joined and assembled to form any dungeon, castle or cave that we can think of, so with a limited number of blocks we can compose a lot of different scenes.