Tinkercad- Spiral Stair Dice Tower

Welcome traveler,

You wish to make a dice tower in just a few easy step, but don't want to get your hands too dirty or simply strap for time? Or you just want to try a new method at making your own dice tower?

Well, you have found the right place.

All that is required is two items:

- Computer

- 3D Printer

- Ruler

Measure out the out the size of the biggest dice you are going to use. So you would know that the dice would fit into the tower.

Optional :

You can import a reference dice from any 3D model sites

Start off by adding in a cylinder

Height : 10

Length/Width : 20

Then add in a rectangle

Length : longer then the length of the dice

Width : 18

Height : 2

Rotate the rectangle 10 degrees

Attach the rectangle to the cylinder while making sure that both the rectangle and cylinder are flush on the same plane.

Now onto the easy part.

Group up the stair pieces, then "CTRL + D " to duplicate the piece

Move the duplicated stair piece upwards, but make sure it is still touching the previous piece. When you rotate around you won't see any gaps between the two stairs

Rotate the top stairs until it is the same as the picture.

Now you can select the rotated piece and "Ctrl + D" all the way up until you are satisfied with the height

"Ctrl + D" will duplicate your previous movement on the object so make sure not to click away

Then group up all you stairs as one

Grab a cylinder and set it to a hole

Scale it to cover up the whole spiral stairs

Make sure that the cylinder is centered to the spiral stairs.

Hide the spiral stair by selecting it and click on the lightbulb.

You will now be using the cylinder made in the previous step as a reference

Grab in a rectangle and scale it to your liking then add in bevels with the radius slider

Place it in a circular shape around the cylinder to form the base

Select the base that was made in the previous step

"Ctrl + D" move up and leave no gap

Rotate a bit

Then repeat until you reach the top of the cylinder

Unhide the stairs

You can try and cut a door way with the rectangular hole ( but it was not working for me so onto the next step)

For me I made a door the old fashion way by removing the blocks until it looks big enough for the dice to fit through

Optional :

you can make a dice or grab it off any 3D model website

In this step it is optional

-You can add in a base with a rectangle and some dice guards

-A top lid by making a pizza shape with a flat cylinder with the size of the reference cylinder and having a hole with

-Remove some bricks to make it look much more older or damaged

Once all done group up the whole model, may take some time because it is quite big

Make sure that all the bricks are touching each other

Have the stairs touch the the walls ( if the walls are much bigger then the stairs, scale down until the stairs are touching the walls)

If there are gaps is the model that was not purposely made, it may cause problems because it won't hold together

Other then that print it out and have fun traveler.