Hello everyone!

This is my first post and I thought I would introduce myself a little, so here goes nothing. My name is Ben Streeter and I am 16 years old. I am mostly interested in twisty puzzle building and designing. I prefer to do this through 3D printing, but I also make puzzles by hand. I like solving puzzles as well, but I usually only do this in my spare time.

With that out of the way, I would like to introduce one of my first custom puzzles: the Shapeshifting 3x3x6.

As you can see, it is a 3x3x6 cuboid, which is fully functional:

However, you will notice that it is not evenly proportional, and was designed this way on purpose: when turning the 3x6 sides by 90 degrees, you can turn the puzzle again. This turns it into a 3x3x3:


Now, a Cubic 3x3x6 also turns into a 3x3, but it doesn't shapeshift since it is cubic. However, by extending some of the layers to be fully proportional, they stick out which cause the puzzle to change shape.

The puzzle was designed in Solidworks and printed in WSF by Shapeways. Size is 57mmX57mmX85.5mm.

Well, that's about it for this puzzle! Video coming soon Video

That's very cool!

Nice puzzle! And welcome to the community!

I would love to see the middle two layers designed so that Rubik's and Cube4You brand parts could be incorporated. For example you could take a 3x3x3 and use the middle layers to make a cubic 'shapeshifting' 3x3x4, or the Cube4You 3x3x5 to make a cubic 3x3x6.

I really do like this puzzles, and I'm looking forward to what else you have in store.

I've been hoping someone would make this kind of puzzle

Wow.. so young and already so skillful!

Yay future, this already looks great Can't wait to see the video

Wonderful work! Welcome to the forum!

-Eitan

Neat. It's like a split 3x3x5.

-Doug

Nice build. I've seen you on YouTube here and there. Welcome to the forum!

Beyond all the praise you deserve I want to say:
Very good photos.

As promised here is the video.

I shall blame my camera's video format for the delay

What a perfectly designed video! Very well done and my compliments.

I hope you can fix the issues with it, but it sure looks really nice