Boards in any grid, any square size and any pattern. Six ready presets – chess, draughts, go, mill, four in a row, race – but the point is the sizes in between, where no bought board exists.
Boards wider than the print bed are split into interlocking tiles automatically. Enter the bed of your machine and the generator tells you how many tiles and how much material.
An 8×8 board with 30 mm squares is 268 mm across – wider than a 256 mm bed. That is the normal case, not a failure, so the generator splits the board into tiles that interlock and tells you how many. Print them in one run, glue them or leave them loose; a tiled board also travels better than a single slab.
Enter the bed of the machine you will actually print on. The generator recalculates the split from that, and the data table says outright whether the board fits in one piece.
| Recessed squares | The chequered pattern, cut 0.8 mm deep. Print the inlay tiles in a second colour and drop them in – no painting, no masking. |
| Recessed lines | A grid for go, mill or race games, where pieces sit on intersections rather than in squares. |
| Plain | No markings at all. For boards that will be printed in one colour and painted, or where the game is defined by the pieces. |
Files and ranks can be written into the frame on all four sides, so both players read them the right way up. Letters skip I, as is usual in chess notation. It needs at least 8 mm of frame; below that the generator says so instead of printing something unreadable.
The lettering is raised geometry, not a texture – it survives a decade of sleeves and thumbs, which a printed or painted label does not.
Print flat, no supports. A 4 mm plate is stiff enough for a board up to about 300 mm; beyond that go to 5 mm or accept a slight bow. Elephant-foot compensation matters here more than anywhere else: a board sits on its whole underside, and a 0.3 mm flare on the first layer makes tiles fit badly.
This page carries the essentials. The detailed sheet is in German: documentation. Every control here is a number, a slider or a choice, and the German page uses the same order.