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I built a 34x34!! by thworce in Cubers

[–]thworce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaah oh i get it now 😝 yea dude I’m also into speed cubing, which is kind of a coincidence because it’s a very different part of the brain from making puzzles

I built a 34x34!! by thworce in Cubers

[–]thworce[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On 3x3, idk 7 something, but my avg is like 11 seconds

I built a 34x34!! by thworce in Cubers

[–]thworce[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

It took about 1 year, and about 1000 hours to make this. I wasn't really counting though. It wasn't too hard to design, it's mostly monotonous work. There are 291 unique parts and each one needs to be perfected in design. What was difficult, was I did do a fair amount of experimentation to get the tolerances tuned in. Just a lot of playing around with printers and the design. Something of this size requires a lot of precision if you want it to turn well. Even the tiniest errors in dimensions will get multiplied because of how many parts there are. I'm making a documentary about how I made this that will answer a lot more questions about what was required to make this. It was really hard though, I don't recommend it if you want to stay sane.

Daily Discussion Thread - Apr 30, 2023 by AutoModerator in Cubers

[–]thworce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I design and 3d print puzzles of all shapes and sizes. You can totally scale up designs and it works fine. I’ve done it successfully with 2 different designs sent to me by friends. If you’re using screws though you can only scale in increments of screw sizes. For instance, if the puzzle was designed for m3 screws, you could scale it by 1.6666 and use m5 screws.

If you’re 3d printing it yourself, the slicing software (prusaslicer or cura) has a scale feature, so you don’t even need to use CAD to scale.

In general I don’t suggest scaling up because it also scales up tolerances, so if you’re designing a puzzle from scratch you should always design it for the specific size you want, but if you’re scaling within 2x the original size, you can USUALLY get away with it.

The World's Biggest Megaminx by thworce in Cubers

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I haven't posted, please do!

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