@PuzzleMaster6262 Given your question to Garret/Andrew, could you tell us how you did the bandaging then?

The bandaging of the 3x3 is done before the 24-cube cuts are added to the puzzle

@TomZ Instead of putting a 2x2x2 over a 24 cube, I designed a master 48 cube, the same way the second pentultimate works on the last layer.

@Garrett The reason I'm asking is after rotating the 2x2x2 45 degrees, would you know if the 24 cube stayed in place or rotated with it?

Yes, but my question was how you bandaged the master 48-cube in to a 48-cube. (not really expecting you to disclose that, but I thought I'd try given you're asking Garret the same sort of question)

Your right that I won't disclose it, but the secret is to not make a master 48 cube in the first place My technique might be able to work on all hidden layer mechs but would not work as good as other solutions. When I finish the v2 in a couple weeks, I will show the mech.

if the mech you have now will soon be outdated, why not share it?

It is the same mech, I'm just replacing about 100 pieces. I don't have the money to print a puzzle of this size one after another.

I'd have to say that this is probably the most amazing and complex puzzle I have seen yet. Great job!

Thank you drew11.

If anyone has any ideas for improvement, please post them.

How well would spray paint work on the tiles/caps for this puzzle? What about dye? The tiles are solid and mostly 2 mm thick.

6 colors of dye should be easy enough to get, I'd go with dye.

+1 for dye.

Looks quite cool, but it's a shame it doesn't function as well as it should do. You should have tried your 'put a bunch of magnets on the pieces and put them around a steel ball technique.'

But seriously, it's a good idea, but it's going to take a long time to get it to a decent standard.

OK, it is MY mech, not Drews, and it is aligned above the 24-cube mech because it is attached to it.

I love your mechanism(it would have to be made out of glue to work worse than mine), but I'm being nitpicky about it being fully functional. When you rotate a 2x2x2 slice 90 degrees, everything would line up perfectly. My confusion is when a 2x2x2 slice is rotated 45 degrees. Because of your added cuts the 24 cube would still be able to rotate. But imagine that the inner 24 cube rotated with the 2x2x2 slice. You would not be able to rotate along the origional 24 cube cuts because the inner 24 cube wouldn't be aligned.

If I'm sounding stupid and your mech already allows all 8 rotations, great job!

Well, I'm not actually sure if it does or not because I haven't printed it. I have bigger, better things to print

Hopefully it's only better, not bigger

Can you rotate the pieces within solidworks?

I know this is a bump and all, but what's the current status of this puzzle? It's been a while and nothing new has been posted.

V2 is almost finished. However, I'm not making the same mistake twice of posting an unfinished puzzle.

Well this was embarrassing but I have learned a lot over the past year (and have no problem laughing at my epic fail ).

I thought it would be fun to show what happened after my first video ended and start this topic back up to continue talking about 48 cubes. Has any one else tried a prototype?

Your puzzle looks like it can be made much more stable with a sphere in the core.

Fillets would also help but it didn't have those either

PuzzleMaster6262, I will attempt this on solidworks... That mechanism was interesting.... Whatever, time to get to work.