How to Design Higher Order Puzzles

[@phillipdobbs6530]

I've needed this for my entire life

[@Cuboxis]

I need more videos of solidworks! you are the best in all of Internet about the Twisty Puzzle design on solidworks (sorry my english) when you can, upload more! :)

[@ProxysCubess]

So I've made some progress and designed a puzzle. Got it printed, works nice, but is there anyway I could get sticker sheets for oliver's stickers? I'm not sure how I'm supposed to make them since the surface is curved.

[@matt.bahner]

+Proxy's Cubes you can design the stickers right in solidowrks and export the sketches as .dwg files and have oliver cut them

[@ProxysCubess]

+Matt Bahner yea but how do I do that with curved surfaces?

[@matt.bahner]

as long as the surfaces are not too curved you can just design it on a plane perpendicular to the normal of the surface

[@ProxysCubess]

Hmm I'll try.

[@rubikspi2832]

+Matt Bahner use OBS as you screen recorder here: obsproject.com/

[@tobiashogn3403]

I really like your videos and I hope that you continue making them. And I have 2 questions to you: Could you make a tutorial how to make puzzles that are not cube-shaped or have more that six axes? When you design a puzzle which didn't exist before, how do you know/learn how to solve them? I hope you reply to my questions😊

[@sevenb4time601]

Wow I never thought it would be so easy to design

[@theportalnerd]

Why do you only need tolerances on the horizontal faces but not the vertical ones?

[@matt.bahner]

+PerpetualCubingMachine vertical tolerances will "add up". Think about if all the pieces were pushed together, there would be a large gap. Anyway, those tolerances will promote wobbling and poor allignment

[@camerontankersley3184]

I really want to start making my own twisty puzzles but I don't know which version of solid works I should buy, which one are you using in this video?

[@matt.bahner]

Cameron Tankersley any version should work fine as long as it's made somewhat recently. Anything after 2010 should be fine the newer the better

[@SpotErrOne]

too cool tutorial. very cool tutorial. great tutorial

[@StanleyChapel]

Could you make a dodecahedron building tutorial?

[@Katzerax]

why aren't you uploading videos anymore?

[@BeatlesCuber]

he's at college and quite busy.

[@Katzerax]

+BeatlesCuber ok

[@matt.bahner]

+Billy Playz Gaming & Cubing Well to be honest I have time I'm just lacking motivation. Expect a DCD video soon

[@Katzerax]

Ok

[@ras3design978]

Wow !!! Excellent job, you are all a master in solidworks, could you help me design a 4x4x4 ?? greetings from Mexico!!

[@mattstudios5067]

Do you think an FDM 17x17 would be possible with this mech? I just got 10 kg of PLA for free :)

[@SpotErrOne]

yes

[@ProxysCubess]

Very helpful series(es? lol), I already managed to design a Crazy Cross Cube even though I just started using Solidworks a couple of weeks ago :D Thanks so much! Also, another question. Since you've worked with the floating anchor mechanism before, how stable would you say it is compared to V-mech? because I want to design a Mini 7x7 that uses the floating anchor mech.

[@matt.bahner]

+Proxy's Cubes floating anchor really hasnet been tested much on smallish cubes. Idk try it I guess. It works well for very large puzzles though

[@ProxysCubess]

+Matt Bahner ah, I see. I'm very curious about those multiple mechanisms you linked though, besides the Cylindrical, Conical and Floating anchor mechs, I haven't ever seen those get tried, did anybody ever use them or are they just hypothetical?

[@matt.bahner]

A good amount of those mechs have been tested but I know they all don't work well.

[@ProxysCubess]

+Matt Bahner any links?

[@jaddvirji717]

+Proxy's Cubes If you look at Oskar's fail 17x17x17 prototype video, the cube uses the Pagoda style mechanism. Also, there is a video on Tony Fisher's channel showing an entire lecture on the puzzle!

[@alanamartinez6884]

are you going to Red Cross Cubing 2016?

[@Katzerax]

a better screen recorder is OBS screen recorder, its really good

[@leonardobrocchi7313]

but how do you design cuboids?

[@noahdelcroix7511]

Thx it helt mee so match

[@inhhaingo8472]

design and 3d printed 25x25? Let's go

[@RubiksGod97]

hello? Matt? Where are you at?

[@BeatlesCuber]

Yaaay soliddosntworks.

[@Jay3Clipz]

Sup Matt, its salty Dan from troop 71. Your videos don't make sense because I'm 13. Have a good time at MIT!

[@Jay3Clipz]

Cool

[@rubikspi2832]

use OBS as you screen recorder here: obsproject.com/

[@akidehitsu405]

Ok I'm watching this and I got confused really bad