Turner's cube

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This came of watching Brun's video on YouTube (I highly recommend his channel):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuS6HDHc7XE Turns out (not a pun) this is a classic puzzle presented to machinists:https://www.cnccookbook.com/how-to-make-cnc-turners-cube/ The challenge in this exercise was in trying to come up with a model suitable for 3D printing. Approached this as first as might a machinist - carving out cylinders from the nested cubes, but quickly realized the inside surface of the cubes was not ideal. Had to bump up my CAD game, slightly, to get a spherical inside surface. :) This is in fact a superior result practical with 3D printing that is not practical with subtractive manufacture. Either the inner cubes are not free to move, or the interior of the cube is not a sphere. (Some guy with a fancy CAM lathe might prove me slightly wrong. Perhaps my nephew.) Designed in OnShape:https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7578e4f3ee04d5c50b0f9ba6/w/8a71c61a2a394945cbf93649/e/0664345b59a74f88c0c675d9

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dreadedhill
A software guy working up the CAD and 3D printing learning curve.

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