Quick Draw Card Dispenser - Fully Customizable Deck Holder or Caddy for Playing Cards

Last week we shared some fully-customizable handles (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4643658), which quickly became no. 1 on Thingiverse's "popular things from the last 7 days" list! We are so pleased you liked our project. We really appreciate your support. A huge thank you goes out to you all!

Based on the overwhelming popularity of the previous design, we're sharing another fully-customisable design with you. This time we have a fully customizable card dispenser.

We originally created this for a game where each player has to race to draw cards. As you can imagine, the cards were constantly ending up in a huge mess! Well, not any more!

We created this card dispenser to keep things a little more organised, but we soon realised that card dispensers are useful for many games and even for things like business cards!

We hope you find this useful. We'd love to know how you've used this, so please share your makes and comments.

OpenSCAD Customizer Options

You can customize everything from the size of your cards, to the number of decks it will hold and you can even create a left-handed version.

• Playing_Card_Width - The width of your playing cards
• Playing_Card_Height - The height of your playing cards
• Deck_Height - The height of your deck (increase slightly above actual height of deck)
• Number_of_Decks - Number of decks (will rotate for printing if > 1)
• Tilt_X_Angle - Deck tilt angle along X
• Tilt_Y_Angle - Deck tilt angle along Y
• Material_Thickness - Minimum thickness of the material
• Thumb_Hole_Radius - Radius of the thumb hole (0 for none)
• Top_Cover - Add a cover (will rotate for printing)
• Left_Handed - Flip for left-handed players

Customizer Suggestions

For faced-paced games, we recommend setting a higher deck height so that the walls can catch the cards.

Sleeved cards have a tendency to slip around, so we recommend increasing the tilt angles.

Versions

• 1.0 (11 Nov 2020) - Initial version

Printing

Recommended slicer settings:

• Resolution: 0.1mm - 0.2mm
• Infill: 10 - 20% should suffice, but try increasing if you'd like the dispenser to be heavier.
• Supports: Doesn't Matter
• Rafts: Doesn't Matter

Finishing

We recommend attaching a piece of sticky felt or some sticky feet to the bottom of the card dispenser.

Downloads

This project includes the following files:

OpenSCAD file

• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0.scad - The OpenSCAD (.SCAD) file

STL files

You will also find STL exports of some common options.

Bridge style cards (58mm x 88mm)

• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_58x88_Single_Open.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_58x88_Single_Covered.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_58x88_Double_Open.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_58x88_Double_Covered.stl

Poker style cards (63mm x 88mm)

• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_63x88_Single_Open.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_63x88_Single_Covered.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_63x88_Double_Open.stl
• codeandmake.com_Quick_Draw_Card_Dispenser_v1.0_63x88_Double_Covered.stl

License

The "Quick Draw Card Dispenser" models (.stl) are licensed under the CC BY license by Code and Make.

The "Quick Draw Card Dispenser" code (.scad) is licensed under The MIT License by Code and Make.

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