# Board game insert design

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [January 24, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196 "2026-01-24T21:42:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![KristerNevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@KristerNevin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/KristerNevin)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196/1 "2026-01-24T21:42:53Z")

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Looking for help on board game insert design. Basicly making organizer boxes. Would anyone give me a basic out line how to approach this? I’d like to just draw lines, make them 1mm (roughly) thick and extrude…is that possible

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**Author:** ![Xdrakosha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xdrakosha/32/24881_2.png) [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196/2 "2026-01-25T07:29:02Z")

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> [@KristerNevin](#):
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> is that possible

Yes, it is 🙂

> [@KristerNevin](#):
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> Would anyone give me a basic out line how to approach this?

Can you be more specific? What exactly are you asking for?

How to make a box? How to draw a sketch? How to extrude the profile?

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**Author:** ![KristerNevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@KristerNevin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/KristerNevin)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196/3 "2026-01-25T17:26:04Z")

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I can make a box. I can draw a sketch. I can extrude a profile. But I guess I’m looking for an optimize work flow to do the design work. To me I should be able to sketch out a map of what I want to extrude with just lines and then offset those lines and extrude. But it seems the only way I can offset it if it is an enclosed item.

Here is a link to the type of stuff I’d like to design. Forgive me for being very new to this type of work and asking probably very basic/uneducated questions.

[📦 The Great Wall Boardgame - All-In - One Box - Sleeved & Walls Assembled・ STL File for 3D printing・Cults](https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/the-great-wall-boardgame-all-in-one-box-sleeved-walls-assembled)

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**Author:** ![Xdrakosha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xdrakosha/32/24881_2.png) [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196/4 "2026-01-25T17:55:03Z")

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> [@KristerNevin](#):
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> But I guess I’m looking for an optimize work flow to do the design work.

Looks like your question not about 3D modeling.

> [@KristerNevin](#):
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> To me I should be able to sketch out a map of what I want

Sounds like a work for another software, maybe CorelDRAW of something similar.

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**Author:** ![Britmax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Britmax](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Britmax)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/board-game-insert-design/40196/5 "2026-01-26T13:21:37Z")

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Personally, i’d set up a base at a nominal thickness to print flat off the bed, then using sketch on face, draw up any dividers between sections to the desired height, possibly making the ones around the perimeter slighlly thicker. Any lid I’d derive from the size of the inside edge, making the perimeter slightly higher so lid fits without moving. If the dividers are thin you may have to raise the infill percentage to prevent fraying..