Often, functional 3D prints are seen as complicated, time-consuming, and hard to achieve. But 3D printed dice are functional, versatile models that are also usually pretty easy to print.
You could always design your own dice to print, but it’s also worth exploring everything that’s already out there. With countless different dice designs online, this can be a difficult process. 3D dice models come in many variations, ranging from a basic balanced cube die to an electronic talking 20-sided die.
In this article, we’ll go over the best websites to find printable dice designs. If you spot your next set of lucky dice but don’t have the setup to print them yourself, try Craftcloud. The printing will be handled by professionals and shipped straight to your door.
So, if you’re feeling lucky, let’s get to the list!
One of the first places you should look for any 3D printable models, including dice, is Thingiverse, one of the first online 3D printing repositories. Thingiverse is home to around 18,500 dice designs, all free, ranging from basic cubic dice to 20-sided options for games. As Thingiverse is maintained by MakerBot, a 3D printing company, and is primarily meant for 3D printing use, most of the models are available in the STL format, which can be easily sliced for 3D printing.
Although Thingiverse has been known to have some glitches and bugs, the platform has an easy-to-navigate interface with many search features that make it easy to find your desired model. The site has a basic search bar as well as categories that organize models, such as “Art” and “Dice”. There are also filters for popularity, the most community Makes, and more to further narrow your search.
Etsy is one of the largest e-commerce sites for handmade items, and you can purchase 3D printable dice designs as well as already-printed dice models. It’s hard to say the number of dice models on Etsy, but, based on our searches, we estimate there to be more than 1,300 different designs available.
It’s also worth mentioning that, as an e-commerce site, Etsy doesn’t have free designs or models. The typical price of a dice model on Etsy is between $1 and $30, but usually, the higher-priced items are collections of dice designs rather than a single model.
Etsy’s interface is pretty easy to use, which makes sense given that the site is used by millions of people every day. As you might expect, Etsy doesn’t have that many useful search tools for finding specific 3D models, but there’s a search bar and a filter for price and shipping (for printed models).
MyMiniFactory is another large repository for 3D printable models, and over 1,500 designs come up after a search for “dice”. The models are usually in the STL format, making them easy to slice and print.
While many of the available models, especially the popular options, are free on MyMiniFactory, some have a small price attached, usually under $5. To find the free designs, you can use the “Free Objects” filter located on the left-hand side of the interface.
MyMiniFactory has a simplistic and easy-to-use interface that’s not too cluttered. Still, the site has a decent number of search features, like filters for price, popularity, and the date the design was published. MyMiniFactory also has categories, and the “Toys & Games” and “Tabletop” classifications contain a lot of dice designs.
Pinshape is similar to Thingiverse in that it’s also a repository meant for 3D printable models, with most of the designs available in the STL format. While it’s hard to estimate how many dice STLs are available on Pinshape due to the lack of a search quantity tool, we think the number is at least 600.
Many of these models are free, but there are also premium designs, usually priced between $1 and $5. To find only the free models, you can click the drop-down filter menu at the top left of Pinshape’s interface and activate the “Only FREE Designs” option.
Pinshape’s clean interface has a decent number of search tools. The site features all the basic options that most 3D model repositories have, such as a search bar and filters for price, date published, and popularity. Additionally, Pinshape has filters for finding models printed with a specific 3D printer, models that have posted community prints, and projects with specific licenses.
CGTrader is a marketplace and repository for 3D models and other digital assets (e.g. textures). The site primarily caters to animation rather than 3D printing purposes, so most of the 3D models are available in a few different formats, like FBX and OBJ. Still, many of the almost 1,000 dice designs on the site are available as STL files or can be downloaded in a format that can be easily converted to an STL.
As CGTrader is a marketplace, many of the files on the site are paid. Usually, the cost is under $20, but there are also freely downloadable dice designs that can be found by activating the “Free” filter.
CGTrader is one of the most well-equipped sites when it comes to search tools. On top of the search bar, the site has filters for file formats, polygon count, popularity, date published, and more. The easiest way to find 3D printable designs is to use the “3D Print” filter, which should only bring up designs that are suitable for printing.
Printables, formerly known as PrusaPrinters, is a 3D printing-focused repository for 3D models, developed by Prusa Research, the popular manufacturer of high-quality 3D printers. Printables only has free designs and there are over 700 dice models available on the website, almost all in the STL format.
Although it’s pretty new compared to Thingiverse, Printables has quickly grown in popularity due to its simple, easy-to-use, and overall smooth user interface. The site also has a few search tools like a search bar, filters for what you’re searching for (e.g. models, users, categories), and basic filters for popularity and the date published. One of the best parts about Printables is that many of the published 3D models have recommended printing tips provided by the designer, which you can use to improve your printed dice.
Cults is yet another repository for 3D models meant for 3D printing, and over 3,500 designs pop up with a simple search for “dice”. The designs on the site are usually simple dice designs or unique models for specific board games. Many of the models on Cults are free and can be found with the “Free” filter, but there are also premium options that usually cost between $1 and $5.
Cults’ interface is pretty intuitive, and it’s not cluttered at all. Like almost all sites on this list, Cults has a search bar with a few basic filters for the number of downloads, the number of likes, price, and the date published. There are also categories for specific types of models like “Art”, “Game”, and “Tools”.
SketchFab is a site that showcases 3D models, and users can also post and share downloadable designs. While there isn’t a good way to see how many dice designs are on SketchFab, we estimate that the number of downloadable options is over 2,000.
SketchFab contains both free and premium designs, and you can find the freebies by going to the “Models” section of the site and activating the “Downloadable” filter. The paid designs (usually under $25) are located in the “Store” section on the site.
In the free “Models” section, there’s a search bar with some basic filters for popularity, date published, and a set of categories like “Art & Abstract” that you can employ to refine your search results. There are even more search tools in the “Store” section of SketchFab, with filters for price, available file formats, polygon count, “Animated”, and the community rating of the model.
TurboSquid, similar to CGTrader, is focused on helping animators find 3D models and other digital assets, and it contains over 1,000 dice designs. Many of the designs on TurboSquid cost between $10 and $30, but there are also freebies that can be found by turning the “Free” filter on.
While most of the designs on the site are available in formats meant for animation like OBJ, you can use the “File Formats” filter and select “STL” to find designs that you can download and easily slice and 3D print. Alternatively, you can download the dice models in other formats and convert them to STL before uploading them to your 3D slicer program.
The other search features on TurboSquid include a search bar, categories like “Technology” and “Office”, and a wide array of filters. Besides file formats, there are filters for popularity, price, date published, model quality, polygon count, and more.
GrabCAD is a repository that mainly caters to mechanical designers rather than 3D printing users. Most of the models are available in CAD-specific file formats like STEP and IGES, but you can easily convert them to STL, and some can be downloaded as STLs directly. All of the models on GrabCAD are free and a search for “Dice” brings back almost 350 results.
GrabCAD has a smooth graphical user interface and contains all the standard repository filters for downloads, likes, overall popularity, and the date published. The site also has a few more complex search options, like the “Software” filter, which only shows results that come in a file format that works with the selected CAD software (e.g. 3DS Max). GrabCAD also has categories to organize the models on the site, and the “Toys” and “Hobbies” options are great places to look for dice designs.
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