I don't play chess, but a friend of mine does. I printed this for them and can't wait to give it to them. I did have to print the 2 boards and 2 sets of the black squares because I glued it all together without realizing that the magnets should all have the same polarity facing the same way. Overall, it did print perfectly and I was happy with it.
Hi APT3D, How did you get the tiles to look so sooth? I have a Bambu A1 and it looks like the stock pics with lines everywhere. I want to make this for my son but would like it to be smoother. Thanks for your help.
Made as a gift for a Friend, is a nice project to make, I believe that some changes could make it easier to assemble, but it was really fun to put together, I printed 95% so the holes worked perfectly for 3mm magnets
Super cool idea and really easy to print. However, I would like to see a version 2 with some sort of locating pins for the wormhole halves and board halves. As it is right now it is hard to align the parts correctly between the board and the wormhole.
The wormhole pieces are hard to fit into the center, I found that if I just take a knife and shave down one of them I can fit it in and it doesn't look any different
Working on building this now, did you have to do anything special for the magnets? I printed one color and ordered my magnets (1/8"x1/8"), but they aren't fitting the holes. Fairly new to 3D printing so I think I may have to modify my settings but figured I would ask and see if you had to do anything outside of what you mentioned in the description
I'm having difficulty getting all the tiles to fit into the wormhole circle spots. I'll get about halfway around and then because each one is slightly off they start to not fit. :(
Hey mate, i was wondering if you could share the original file or make a version with different size holes (metric).
Can't get imperial magnets in Europe.
you could try scaling it down a titch so 3mmx3mm works, i found magnets of that size on apexmagnetsdotcom, or you can do whatevers local. try scaling the print to 94.5% and it should work. (thats what the math says anyway. may have to play with it.)
Discussions — Wormhole Chess Board
Hi APT3D, How did you get the tiles to look so sooth? I have a Bambu A1 and it looks like the stock pics with lines everywhere. I want to make this for my son but would like it to be smoother. Thanks for your help.
he printed them face down in the print bed
Did you use 3x2 mm magnets or 3x1 mm magnets? Also, did you print at exactly 95%?
Super cool idea and really easy to print. However, I would like to see a version 2 with some sort of locating pins for the wormhole halves and board halves. As it is right now it is hard to align the parts correctly between the board and the wormhole.
the smaller set of pieces has a warning of a /ton/ of non-manifold edges (2696), do you see this in your version?
The wormhole pieces are hard to fit into the center, I found that if I just take a knife and shave down one of them I can fit it in and it doesn't look any different
Working on building this now, did you have to do anything special for the magnets? I printed one color and ordered my magnets (1/8"x1/8"), but they aren't fitting the holes. Fairly new to 3D printing so I think I may have to modify my settings but figured I would ask and see if you had to do anything outside of what you mentioned in the description
I was struggerling to see the dimples to help with positioning, so I printed without a bottom layer to help.
I'm having difficulty getting all the tiles to fit into the wormhole circle spots. I'll get about halfway around and then because each one is slightly off they start to not fit. :(
Hey mate, i was wondering if you could share the original file or make a version with different size holes (metric). Can't get imperial magnets in Europe.
you could try scaling it down a titch so 3mmx3mm works, i found magnets of that size on apexmagnetsdotcom, or you can do whatevers local. try scaling the print to 94.5% and it should work. (thats what the math says anyway. may have to play with it.)