Hexagonal Nut Box (Not for Elderwood Dice)

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Enjoy my NUT box. Not for Elderwood Dice. Don't you dare put icky Elderwood Dice in my Nut Box! Nightmare Before Christmas Version added in single and multi color files named NBC, thanks to https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3154656 for the design. I added more "tops" a couple with my Logo and some NASA Logo tops. The ones with MC in the Name are multi color compatible STL's. If there is a specific design you would like message me, if time permits, I will try to add it (NO Hostile copyright holders so "Disney" for example would be a NO :-). Doing it yourself however would be very easy. Import the "top blank" into Tinkercad.com then import your desired logo. Rotate the top so its facing up 180. Set your work plane to the top of the box top. Then import your desired logo. Make it 4mm thick (tall) now start raising it up. See the number on the RIGHT? Make it 0 that will put it even with your new top of box work plane. Now put it over the box. Get it where you want it scale it etc.. and then "sink" it down 2mm (no more 3mm will poke through) make it a "hole" merge the 2 or more parts and rotate it 180 again so it faces down and export. If you want to do Multi Color thats just one more step really. Before you merge them, DUPLICATE the logo "hole" model (Ctrl D) do not use copy paste it will "shift" duplicate will keep it where it is. Now shift select the body and merge to make your hole cut. You will note you still have the duplicate hole. Now change it to a solid color shorten its z axis to 2mm same as the depth of the hole you just made. Now DO NOT merge. Select "both" pieces and rotate the entire assembly 180' and export. It will work now when you import it into your slicer it will be multi color compatible with 2 "bits" you can assign to 2 extruders. Elderwood Academy (sometimes "Three Frog LLC", sometimes "Daniel Reiss") You cannot patent a hexagon. You cannot copyright a hexagon. You cannot trademark a hexagon (purely a hexagon). I have been making these boxes for over 30 years. Longer than your company has EXISTED. You can create a company logo that incorporates hexagons and you can trademark that but not "the hexagon" or a "hexagon hole" or a hexagon with hexagons in it. This is pure function. You cannot patent it you cannot copyright it you cannot trademark it. You cannot own the hexagon. Trade Dress requires distinctiveness and is NOT permitted Pure Function. NO ONE except the people who agreed to sign that paper for you (that you copy pasted and handed to them) even recognizes you as any sort of distinctive "source" for hexagon holes in a hexagon box. Most people I have spoken with are ONLY familiar with your existence as a RESULT of your attempts to remove all hexagon boxes from the internet. You have annoyed me. Now I just might shift from offering hexagon boxes for free to fans online to SELLING hexagon boxes to people. Just because I am annoyed now. I really really really hate it when people abuse the legal system. It annoys me greatly. You are committing malicious intentional fraud by trying to abuse the trademark system to secure "patent" protection of your product and the monopoly that patents permit. When I first SAW your boxes I thought HEY they look like MY boxes (exactly like my boxes). Was my first thought HEY elderwood stole my box? no. Why? Because I don't own the freaking hexagon. ANYONE is welcome to make hexagon boxes with hexagon holes. No one can own the hexagon. I actually WANTED one of your boxes. They are quite beautiful. Now, you could not pay me to own one. Many many others feel the same way. STOP trying to own that which is not yours to own and go back to making good products. BTW has Wyrmwood talked to you about dilution of their tradename? I don't think its a coincidence that you called your company ElderWOOD. WyrmWOOD - ElderWOOD Hmmmmm. Coincidence? I think not.