Four-Way Dice Tower

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I needed a dice tower that had openings on all four sides to use as a component in a game design that I was working on. So, I took [ClericAaron](https://www.thingiverse.com/ClericAaron)'s excellent design for a more traditional [dice tower](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1276711) and hacked it into a form that I could use. The dice tower is designed to work with 12mm six-sided dice. In particular, I needed to be able to dump a Chessex 12mm d6 dice block (36 dice) into the top of the tower and have all of the dice fall through without getting stuck. You can put *some* traditional polyhedral dice through the tower but standard size Chessex twelve and twenty-sided dice are too big and will get stuck. I recommend placing the tower in the middle of some kind of ring to prevent the dice from getting launched off of whatever surface you're rolling them on. I use a hula hoop wrapped in silicone tape to make it a bit less prone to sliding around on the table. There are two versions of the four-way dice tower. One has a tree-like structure in the middle to bounce the dice around before they fall to the bottom of the tower. The other has a set of fins protruding from the walls that serve a similar function. The tree-like design came first and it works fine, if/when it prints correctly. For some reason I was getting some pretty weird layer shifts when I tried to print it. In an attempt to diagnose the cause of the printing failures, I redesigned the innards to see if the mildly complex tree-like structure was giving my slicer trouble. That led me to the fins design. The fins design does seem to print better and it is the version that I recommend that you use. If, however, you feel like testing the tree-like version to see if you can get it to print correctly I'd love to hear about your experience.