Blender Dice Gen

A Blender add-on that generates polyhedral dice.

Installation and usage

Download the python script, then go to Edit > Preferences... > Add-ons > Install... and select the python file.

Afterwards you will be able to generate dice in Add > Mesh > Dice

The add-on will create 2 objects, a blank dice mesh and the numbers. The blank dice object will have a boolean modifier that has the "Realtime" flag turned off for performance reasons. Turn that on to see the result in the viewport.

Go to the wiki to see what each property does in detail.

Supported dice

Create an issue if you'd like a new dice type to be added.

• D4 Tetrahedron
• D4 Crystal
• D4 Shard
• D6 Cube
• D8 Octahedron
• D10 Pentagonal Trepazohedron
• D100 Pentagonal Trepazohedron
• D12 Dodecahedron
• D20 Icosahedron

Tips

• The unit scale in Blender is weird and with default settings the scale of the generated STL will be off by a factor of 1000 compared to the displayed scale in Blender. To have Blender display scales that matches the resulting STL set Scene Properties > Units > Unit Scale to 0.001. It also helps to set the length unit to millimeters.
• If the dice disappears when enabling the boolean modifier, try ticking the Self option under the solver options for the Exact solver. Or try switching to the Fast solver.

Contributing

Please make pull requests against the dev branch to keep the master branch clean.