Tabletop generators by Schicht-Werk. Pieces, tokens, boards, dice, tiles and storage are generated from parameters – not downloaded from someone else's file. Design a game once and you get it twice: a digital version you can try in the browser, and a print package for manufacturing.
Six types, any size, optional cavity for a weight. Fit check against the square size, STL per piece or as a full set.
Pawn, cone, disc, cylinder, ring, prism. Quantities per player, material for the whole set.
Grids up to 19×19, recessed squares or engraved lines, frame, automatic tiling for your build plate, laser SVG for plywood.
Six-sided dice with recessed pips at any edge length, plus blank D4 to D20 bodies for your own markings.
Compartment trays with a matching lid. Presets for a chess set, tokens and dice; build plate check included.
Hexagon, square, triangle, octagon with a chamfer, optionally with a stud and socket. Honeycomb layout, set calculation, laser SVG.
Print-ready A4 card sheet with cut marks and card backs, plus a printed card holder with matching slots.
Chips in casino and home sizes with edge notches and a sealed weight pocket: pause the print, drop in a washer, carry on. Dealer button and rack included.
Bases for miniatures and game pieces: round 25 to 100 mm, oval, square, with an optional magnet recess. Odd sizes and replacements too.
Tower and tray from two flat-printed parts: the ramps on the back shell and on the front plate interlock. No supports needed.
Sleeves, mitred elbows, end caps, base plates and throwing rings for large garden games. Print the connector, let the wooden dowel do the carrying.
Scale bar for the product photo, filament sample cards with thickness steps and dividers with a labelled tab.
Plates in seven-segment or 5×7 dot lettering, raised or recessed, printed in one piece. Numbers and whole words – for throwing blocks, compartments, chips, bases and boards.
The path through the tools, from idea to print package – plus a folder that keeps one game project together.
Seven ready-made game definitions to build on – each with the findings from two hundred automatically played games.
Play your own game through hundreds of times automatically: does it end, does it end too fast, does the first player always win?
Enter measurements from the test print series and get the corrections for each generator, plus a blank measurement sheet to print.
Define a square board or a hex grid, pieces, movement rules, zones, target areas and the victory condition, play a test round in the browser, then export the same definition as a parts list, rule sheet and print package.
Designing a board game usually means duplicated work: a cardboard prototype on one side, a digital version for testing on the other – and the two drift apart. SPIELWERK keeps board, pieces and rules in a single file. That file drives the available browser version and the print package with geometry, parts list and rule sheet. Change a rule and both change.
All thirteen generators are available in English. The interface, the data tables and the notes are translated; the calculation is the same code as the German pages rather than a second implementation, so the two cannot drift apart.
The tools around them – workbench, example games, simulator, calibration and the game kit – are still German only. They are working tools rather than product pages, and every control in them is a number, a slider or a choice. The table below translates the terms you need.
| Höhe | height |
| Durchmesser | diameter |
| Edge length | edge length |
| Square / square size | square / square size |
| Steg | web, the strip between two squares |
| Rahmen | frame |
| Wall thickness / base thickness | wall thickness / floor thickness |
| Aussparung | cavity, for a magnet or a weight |
| Beschwerung | weighting |
| Spiel | clearance (also: play, as in a game – context decides) |
| Infill | infill |
| Resolution | resolution, number of segments |
| Druckbett | build plate |
| Kachel / Teilung | tile / splitting |
| Tiles | tile (the loose game piece, not a board section) |
| Across flats | across flats |
| Fase | chamfer |
| Zapfen / Buchse | stud / socket |
| Auslage | the laid-out playing area |
| Kartenblatt / Bogen | card sheet / sheet |
| Schnittmarken | cut marks |
| Back | card back |
| Schlitz | slot |
| Zone / Zielzone | zone / target area |
| Sperrfeld | blocked square |
| Siegbedingung | victory condition |
| Gewichtstasche | weight pocket (sealed cavity for a washer) |
| Randkerben | edge notches |
| Druckpause | print pause / filament-change stop |
| Magnettasche | magnet recess |
| Back shell / front plate | back shell / front plate |
| Rampe | baffle |
| clear depth | clear internal depth |
| Overlap | overlap |
| Steckmuffe | sleeve / socket connector |
| Rundholz | wooden dowel |
| Einstecktiefe | insertion depth |
| Base plate | base plate |
| Schild / Aufschrift | plate / lettering |
| erhaben / vertieft | raised / recessed |
| Line width | stroke width |
| Wabe | hex grid |
| Versatzraster | offset grid |
| Punktschrift | dot-matrix lettering |
| Fuge | gap / joint |
| Werkbank | workbench |
| Projektmappe | project folder |
| Schieflage | imbalance |
| Spielweise | playing policy |
| Corner piece | elbow |
| Mitre joint | mitre joint |
| Parts list | parts list |
| Regelblatt | rule sheet |
| Fertigen lassen | request manufacturing (opens an e-mail with all dimensions) |
Game ideas and rules as such are not protected by copyright. Names, artwork, text and trade dress are – and that is where the expensive mistakes happen. In German-speaking markets, trademark warnings over well-known game names regularly reach small sellers on platforms like Etsy, with six-figure amounts in dispute. Public-domain classics – chess, draughts, nine men's morris, go, backgammon – are safe. A game of your own is safe. A lookalike carrying a protected name is not, and Schicht-Werk does not produce one.
Printed game parts are supplied as equipment for adults and institutions, not as toys under Directive 2009/48/EC. Anyone intending to hand them to children has to clear toy safety separately: small parts, choking hazard, material testing to EN 71-3, labelling. Small tokens are not suitable for children under three; magnets used as weights must be glued in place.