3D Printed Chess Set

Milestone Project: 3D Printed Chess Set

After hours of working away on this project. I have never been so pleased with the outcome of one of my projects. After 6 hours of modeling in Rhino, 10 hours in the thing tank, and 2 hours of filing and gluing everything together I am so incredibly proud of what I made.

I began by drafting some images of what the project should look like based off of images from the web from my favorite video game Skyrim Elder Scrolls. Skyrim has been a massive part of my childhood as a dorky kid with only a couple of friends, I found that I would often escape from the bullying I experienced around the age of 13 and play the game after getting home from school.

Therefore, this project was not only emotional for me but the pieces themselves were fun to design and meaningful to me.

I found that in the beginning stages of modeling my only concern was deciding what artifacts from the game should be queen, king, rook, etc... However, after the first stage of a rough draft of the models, I hit a major roadblock.

After running the models through Prusa slicer, I realized that the objects simply would not print as easily as I had hoped for and I would have to do a lot of disassembling in order to make each chess piece base and topper printable.

However, dissecting each of the pieces into small chunks which were able to be assembled with super glue was the solution to my problem. Jessica and I had spent quite a bit of time together planning how this would be done.

In the end, I found that breaking the mask in half and printing the blades of each of the swords and daggers separately to prevent them from tipping over on the build plate and flipping the crown upside down to allow for more pace to print small details was the best way to go about it.

Overall I am incredibly happy with how this project turned out and although I spent hours on the project I am so pleased with the end result. I can now say that I have a complete Skyrim Chess set which is not only super cool but also served as a way of healing parts of my inner child while creating each piece. I feel that I also learned plenty of new skills on Rhino and put use to commands such as network surface, which was intimidating to use at first, and also learned how to judge quite accurately if a build will actually work when run through slicer.

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