Laser etched dice! I cut a little holder to help with alignment. Since there are 6 sides, I can set the job to repeat 6 times, before continuing each job, I can rotate each die and move it to the next slot. So after 6 passes, I have 6 complete custom dice!
Settings: 10mA, 320mm/s.
Blank dice on Amazon
White: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LW5CBL8/
Color: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNWGVDO/
Also, if I want to make less than 6 dice, I have little stone inserts to take the hit in the unused slots. Still takes 6 passes.
Looks very nice. I’d set it up so there are 6 of each side in the design file and send the file - does the whole lot of them. Then rotate the dice and do the next side on all of them. No repeats, just 6 sends. I’d have all 6 sides as layers in Corel and then send 1 layer at a time.
I really like these and will probably do custom dice for a Cataan board I’m making.
Well done on the alignment. Dice look great.
If you wish to do less than 6 dice, you will be wasting CO2 from the tube every time you fire at the stone inserts. You are better off creating more copies of your 6 icons that omit the number of dice you are not wanting to do.
E.g. supposing A|B|C|D|E|F represent your icons, you could create as follows to make just 4 dice. / represents a blank image. 1, 2, 3, 4 represent each blank dice.
…A B C D / /
…1 2 3 4
…/ B C D E /
…1 2 3 4
…/ / C D E F
…1 2 3 4
…A / / D E F
…4…1 2 3
…A B / / E F
…3 4…1 2
…A B C / / F
…2 3 4…1
So you would have 6 layers, first layer with icons A B C D active & icons E F hidden. Each successive layer will deactivate different icons, as you will be moving the blank dice (1, 2, 3 & 4) one to the right every time & rotating to get the next side done.
You would still be doing 6 passes, but wasting less of your tube’s CO2. Hope that makes sense.
edit: grr my spaces I put in the diagram were not displaying correctly to align the numbers where I wanted so I added . instead of spaces. Ignore them.
Good suggestions!
I was doing the “repeat 6 times” for convenience, but queuing up 6 tasks with different layers active, while a few extra steps, would be more efficient. Another subtle difference is that way all the dice would have the same faces on the same sides.
