Meeple & Standee Stand Base — Friction Slot Holder for Thin Tokens (Parametric, OpenSCAD)

A small weighted clip base that holds any thin game token upright —

a cardboard punchboard standee, a thin acrylic or printed silhouette, even a

single card edge. The token edge drops into a friction slot with a flared

mouth that guides it in, and the wide footprint resists tipping in the

easy-to-tip direction (*across* the slot, not along it). Optional vertical

grip ribs pinch flimsy card so it can't flop.

Tune one number. slot_wis the slot width — set it to your token

thickness plus a little clearance:

• ~1.6 mm — thin acrylic / glossy standee

• - ~2.2 mm — standard punchboard cardboard standee (default)

• - ~7.0 mm — a printed meeple silhouette slab

Everything else is parametric: footprint length/width, height, corner radius,

slot length/depth, the flared mouth, and the grip ribs (on/off, count,

squeeze).

Why it won't tip. A standee tips most easily about the line of its slot,

so the base is widened across the slot to give a long anti-tip lever. Keep

the slot on the long axis and the stand is hard to knock over.

Print. Flat on the bed, slot opening UP — the slot walls rise vertically,

the only taper is the flared mouth, so it prints with zero supports.

0.2 mm layers, 3 walls, PLA or PETG on any 0.4 mm FDM (designed on a Bambu

Lab P2S).

Files. meeple_stand_base.stlis one base. meeple_stand_base_plate.stl

is a 4×2 grid of eight bases for batch printing. The fully parametric

meeple_stand_base.scadsource is attached.