Hello forum,

This is my first puzzle ever printed made with solidworks, the Elite Kilominx.
I'd like to thank Will (will_57) for teaching me how to use the basic differences to autoCAD in Solidworks, Tom for the video on how to make a good looking sticker template, Oskar for the types of cuts used to make this puzzle, and also Muffet for allowing me to sell it.

This Elite Kilominx uses two techniques I wanted to discover:

- Decepticuts (I like to call them that) like on the Kilominx or Oh Cube
- Olzing, which I never really used on a puzzle before

It results in a puzzle with edges split into 6 pieces of the same exact length.

The puzzle itself locks up a bit, when for example one of the 5 center pieces passes over the other piece instead of under, but that doesn't happen very much. The reason why I barely put fillets on that part was to hide the screws in its solved state. Speedsolving it will of course cause lockups

On the other hand, when you spin it without a lockup, the puzzle is probably much smoother than the Mf8 Teraminx on the two first layers, if not the third, and there is no clicking noise.

To be honest, I think this is definitely the best puzzle I ever made, and Solidworks is what's making this possible.

I will sell one at DCD on the 30th, one on eBay later on, and I'll keep one for myself so there will only be 3 examplars ever made.
(speaking of DCD I will also sell the 2nd prisminx and 2nd split 3x3x4 I had talked about)

Now, what you've been waiting for I guess

Video

Enjoy !!

Greg

That turns really well! A great accomplishment. We now have all the Minx puzzles made 1 through 7. Anyone want to tackle number 8 to bring the line all the way up to 9?

-Eitan

Really well made! wow! I wish I will own one some day...

Interesting choice of cuts for the outer two layers.

Looks like it turns extremely well, great puzzle.

Is it like a 6x6 megaminx?

What is its weight?
I can measure the edge length by myself.

Great work Greg. You managed to hide the screws really well with this puzzle.

Wow good work greg!

Awesome puzzle! Would making it larger eliminate the olzing?

@ Andreas: About as heavy as a helicopter cube, but much bigger ^^

@c1829: No it wouldn't, I made the olzing on purpose to make the edges seperated into 6 equal bits. Any size will not make it possible to avoid olzing.

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone

I guess I don't understand this?

All the red bits are equal =)

And I find the looks of Olzing very appealing

just because it seemed like a good place to put it here is another version I had considered, it also has "equal" sized pieces, give or take a little

I think yours would lock up a little bit more, since the hyper thin pieces are not only the centers :/
But it has a nice look, definitely !!

Getting a little further off topic then I like but I agree with Greg. It does look nice but the complexity of the cuts could affect turning. If I were to approach this problem I'd do something like this.



I'd make each of the pink edges equal to 1/6 of the puzzle edge (x), but I'd also make each of the green edges equal to 1/3 of the radius of the inscribed circle (y) on each of the hexagon faces. The deepest cut would look the same but the two shallower cuts would intersect the hexagonal faces to form a hyperbola on the surface of the puzzle. I think that would be less likely to have turning issues and could look even nicer. Off the top of my head I'm not sure how I'd define the hyperbola I'd want to rotate in Solidworks but I suspect it's doable.

Carl

You can't have at the same time x/6 and y/3, look closely. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm pretty sure you can. The easiest way would be just to cut the surface up with lines. You'd have v's you'd need to rotate about the puzzle just like Muffet did but the sides of the different v's (different depth cuts) wouldn't be parallel, as they are in Muffet's example. However I think hyperbolas would look even nicer then the v's.

Carl