Poly-Snaps: Tiles For Building Polyhedra 3D Printer Model
The file 'Poly-Snaps: Tiles For Building Polyhedra 3D Printer Model' is (scad,stl) file type, size is 267.7KB.
The file 'Poly-Snaps: Tiles For Building Polyhedra 3D Printer Model' is (scad,stl) file type, size is 267.7KB.
These tiles snap together to make polyhedra of any type you wish! Regular, semi-regular, truncated, stellated, or freaky; you decide.
Customize your own with the "Open in Customizer" button or download pre-made sets of compact or light Poly-Snap tiles. The compact tiles are the blue, white, and black ones in the main picture; they are sturdy and difficult to snap together, so they make very strong models you can toss around. The light tiles are larger and shown in the red picture; these are easier to take apart and put together and print up very quickly, but the models are a little less sturdy.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H26rtWoummg&feature=youtu.be
Depending on your printer and the filament, temperature, elevation from sea level, day of the week, etc, you may need different tolerances for your snaps; you can modify this in the Customizer.
A few technical notes and tips are listed in the Instructions tab.
Detailed walkthroughs of how we used OpenSCAD to make Poly-Snaps to construct particular models are at the links below.
Truncated Tetrahedron
Octahedron
Truncated Octahedron
Snub Cube
Icosidodecahedron
Icosahedron
| mathgrrl_polysnap_customizer.scad | 4.4KB | |
| polysnap_compact_3.stl | 142.4KB | |
| polysnap_compact_4.stl | 184.5KB | |
| polysnap_compact_5.stl | 232.2KB | |
| polysnap_compact_6.stl | 275.9KB | |
| polysnap_compact_7.stl | 326.8KB | |
| polysnap_compact_8.stl | 372.5KB | |
| polysnap_light_3.stl | 205.4KB | |
| polysnap_light_4.stl | 287.4KB | |
| polysnap_light_5.stl | 355.3KB | |
| polysnap_light_6.stl | 416.9KB | |
| polysnap_light_7.stl | 499.8KB | |
| polysnap_light_8.stl | 574.3KB |
