Blender Dice Gen

A Blender add-on that generates polyhedral dice

Installation and usage

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

Afterwards you will be able to generate dice in Add > Mesh > Dice or Sidebar > DiceGen5 > Add Dice to Scene.

Each newly added die is placed in its own collection named after the dice type, with the body, numbers, and fin supports grouped together.

The add-on will create a blank dice mesh and, if enabled, a separate numbers object. 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.

Supported dice

• D4 Tetrahedron
• D4 Crystal
• D4 Shard
• D6 Cube
• D8 Octahedron
• D10 Pentagonal Trepazohedron
• D100 Pentagonal Trepazohedron
• D12 Dodecahedron
• D20 Icosahedron
• Custom Crystal, any number of faces
• Custom Shard, any number of faces
• Custom Bipyramid, any even number of faces (not impossible geometry)
• Custom Trapezohedron, any number of even faces (not impossible geometry)

New features

• Add a custom image to a face using an SVG
• Set dice type to sharp, chamfer, or bevel (these are done with a bevel modifier)
• Set dice type bumper (creates a "cage" around the dice corners, modifies dice mesh)
• Added new Dice Gen section to Object properties to allow quick configuration changes of individual dice
• Added new Dice Gen sidebar menu option to allow quickly creating multiple dice with the same configuration
• Built-in fin supports for resin printing
• Automatic per-die collections to keep multi-die scenes organized

Settings reference

Detailed setting documentation is in SETTINGS.md.

• Global settings
• Number and indicator settings
• Custom image settings
• Resin fin support settings
• Geometry-specific settings
• Workflow notes

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.