Dominion (Card Game) Resource Holder

UPDATE 2016-03-24 I totally reworked the resource tray, with a fully adjustable SolidPython/OpenSCAD design. The .stl file has ~0.7mm margin in both x- and -y direction for each card slot, and 50mm sleeve height (the 91 mm high cards slide 50 mm into each slot. And there's a 30mm height difference between the two levels. These are all adjustable parameters in the script. I also added STLs for most expansions (cards only, you must store tokens and mats separately)

NOTE: If you aren't sure about your printer calibration, scale the z-axis down to 1/5th size (but leave X- and Y-axes alone) to do a test print. Test the slot sizes with your actual cards. All printers are different, and you'll probably have to scale both X- and Y- to get the right fit. Or if you are on linux, you can download the python script and re-run it with a new calibration file (caldata.py) or with a different margin values.

Dominion is a great game, but always lots of counting and sorting of cards, and making space to lay out all the piles. After calibrating my printer (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:230596), I was able to make perfect-sized slots. The cards are snug, but still easy to insert or remove.

For reference, this holds exactly:
* 60 copper
* 40 silver
* 30 gold
* 12 platinum (or something else, if not using Prosperity)
* 24 estates
* 12 duchies
* 12 provinces
* 12 colonies (or something else, if not using Prosperity)
* 30 curses

Earlier versions of dominion came with more duchies and estates. The script should be smart enough to adapt if you change the card counts near the top (for instance, if you really want to hold 30 estates instead of 24)

You can probably just skip the math below, and make a test print rescaling the Z-axis to about 20%. Try inserting the cards into the short slots, and adjusting the X- and Y-scaling, before doing a full print. Doing this full print with 1 shell, 10% infill, at 100mm/s and 0.3mm layer height, took about 7 hours. It is 144g, which is like $5 worth of PLA. So get the sizes right before committing to the full print!

You may consider calibrating your printer first:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:230596

The most important thing is the slot sizes: measure the inner widths in the x- and y-axes, to see how much error you have. In my case, if I specify a slot of width X and Y, my print has a slot of size X*0.935-0.25, and Y*0.94-0.6. So I added .25mm to the X-slot sizes and 0.6mm to the Y-slot sizes, and then an extra 0.5mm to each for "margin". That is how the model was made. That compensates for the width of 1 shell on an MBot Cube 2, but doesn't include the rescaling.

Then before slicing, I scaled the X-axis by 107%, and the Y-axis by 106.4% in Makerware. Doing this, I got a perfect fit.

FYI: A dominion card is exactly 91mm x 59mm x 0.3mm