How to Design Twisty Puzzles - (Part 9) - Tolerance, Fillet, Shell

[@pilotboy217]

Love the way you did the tiles for the God Emperor Pentultimate. I've known about you for years and I've only bought 2 printed puzzles from Evgeniy. A Floppy teraminx and a floppy gigaminx. Had them for two years and I haven't been able to get the teraminx out of my hands. The turning on printed puzzles are addicting within itself.

[@Vykori]

I can't believe how easy the fillet tool is. you're saying stuff like "Sometimes you'll have to fillet things twice... :/" and I'm like "I thought we had to draw a new sketch for every single fillet, omg"

[@herrreinsch]

awesome

[@PuzzleWorks]

Here are some things that Greg Pfennig taught me. You can actually hollow out entire bodies without having to select faces or drill holes. The third icon down on the Shell toolbar is a normal yellow cube. If you click on its corresponding box to the right of it, you can select entire bodies to hollow, THEN drill holes later. Greg also sent me this image from Oskar's slide on tolerances: prntscr.com/8fwr82 Greg's Notes: Pull / Slide: 0mm Hover: 0.3+mm (I use 0.5) Jam: 0.2-0.3 (I use 0.2 because I prefer a tight puzzle)

[@GreenArt4]

Hmm, so instead of moving the top part of the mechanism you move the bottom?

[@laiscube]

Is there a way to do asymmetrical or elliptical fillets?

[@3dbeasts]

Is there any reason you didn't add helix's to the screw holes?

[@jaddvirji717]

+3dbeasts As long as the holes are the right size, the helixes will come in as the screw is pushed in - there is no need to design them.

[@EPICGUYDUDE]

That's pretty bizarre, your method of tolerance, i think most puzzle designers do not tolerance the corner like you did, they tolerance the faces that do not 'prevent the piece from coming out'

[@ProxysCubess]

One of the puzzles I'm desiging is a bit complex and the mechanism parts don't work with 1mm Fillets which I usually use. Are 0.5mm fillets good enough? :S

[@matt.bahner]

+Proxy's Cubes yea everything is subject to the specific design. if .5 seems alright then it probably is

[@ProxysCubess]

Alright good to know.

[@cubedude5746]

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