Switchbacks (by AllPlay) Board Game Organizer

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This is a fairly simple board game organizer for the game "Switchbacks", sold by AllPlay.  AllPlay is amazing.  I have a standing policy of buying anything they release.  I've never been disappointed.  Also, if you like Switchbacks, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Mountain Goats. I've really enjoyed the game so far, but I always hate having pieces organized into plastic baggies.  This design consists of four trays, each sized appropriately to store the 16 blue, 16 red, 11 green, and 8 yellow hiker meeples, as well as storage for your hex tiles.  This has been designed so the closed board game box can be turned on its side, turned upside-down, and shaken about vigorously without pieces coming lose and winding up in the wrong compartment — that's been my experience, and will hopefully be yours as well.  While I neatly stacked the hiker meeples in the pictures, it works just fine tossing them in haphazardly, too.  The hex rack took four prototypes in total to get the dimensions just right, and I'm very pleased with the tolerances — the tiles slip in and out with ease, the rack itself slips in and out of the box with ease, my fingers slip into the designated receptacles of the integrated Phalanges-Assisted Take Out (PATO) unit with ease.  It's been a real rewarding journey.  My only regret is that I turned on some nasty ironing settings when printing that final prototype of the hex tile rack, so the top surfaces all look nasty on my print.  I urge you to not make the same mistake and risk living with the sort of regret that could only be remedied by printing out another damn hex rack.Print SettingsHow should you print these?  Very.  Carefully.Nah, not really.  I don't see why this wouldn't print perfectly fine with just about any nozzle south of 1.0mm and any typical slicer settings that you've grown to know and love.  Go wild.  There's not a whole lot that can go wrong here if your machine is operating within normal specs.How did I print these?  Thank you for asking!Meine Maschine:Ender 3 Neo with a Sonic Pad (i.e. Klipper), dual-motor Z-axis upgrade, silicone pads replacing the bed leveling springs, an enclosure, plus a red racing stripe and a highly-aerodynamic spoiler at the rear to make it go super fastNozzle:0.6mm brassMaterial: eSun PLA+ in my favorite colorTemperature: 205°C hot-end / 60°C bedSlicer Settings: UltiMaker Cura's “Adaptive Layers”, set at 0.36mm ± 0.08mm @ 0.04mm step size. It tended toward 0.44mm layer height when printing long stretches of walls and infill, but tended more toward 0.28mm layer height when printing the tops and bottoms, where it detected a need for more detail.  You could easily just print this with a consistent height anywhere from 0.20mm to 0.28mm without trouble.0.72mm line width15% infill2 walls.  Consider increasing this if you're using a narrower nozzle.  Perhaps 3, or even 4, walls if you're using a 0.4mm nozzle.4 top/bottom layers, totaling 1.44mm in heightNo supports neededI didn't have any issue with curling at the base, so I did not use a raft.  Consider using a raft if this is something you have problems with on moderate-sized flat piecesI printed the four meeple boxes in vase mode.  This isn't necessary, but I was pleased with the way they turned out.Please note: I apparently accidentally created all of these designs upside-down, so they'll load upside-down into most slicers.  If there's enough interest, I'll flip them over and re-upload.  I'm confident anyone here can just casually rotate the model right-side up in your slicer.This is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.  Please feel free to republish this.  Feel free to remix this.  Feel free to use it for commercial purposes and make loads of money off of it.  Just give me proper attribution and be sure that you're republishing any remixes under the same license.Enjoy!