Puzzle Cube Design Brief
Client- Donoway Furniture------Target Consumer- Ages 3+ -----Designer-Ryan Sauer
Problem Statement- A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tons of scrap 3/4in hardwood cubes that comes from cut furniture pieces. The loss of expensive wood is a big loss of profit.
Design Statement- Donoway would like to return value to the waste product by making a desktop novelty puzzle cube. Design build, test, and present a 3-d puzzle system made from the scraps.
Criteria- Must be fabricated from 27 - 3/4in hardwood cubed
Must contain exactly 5 puzzle pieces
Each peice must have at least 4 but no more then 6 cubes glued together
No two pecies the same
Five parts must make a 2 1/4in" cube
Some should interlock
Client- Donoway Furniture------Target Consumer- Ages 3+ -----Designer-Ryan Sauer
Problem Statement- A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tons of scrap 3/4in hardwood cubes that comes from cut furniture pieces. The loss of expensive wood is a big loss of profit.
Design Statement- Donoway would like to return value to the waste product by making a desktop novelty puzzle cube. Design build, test, and present a 3-d puzzle system made from the scraps.
Criteria- Must be fabricated from 27 - 3/4in hardwood cubed
Must contain exactly 5 puzzle pieces
Each peice must have at least 4 but no more then 6 cubes glued together
No two pecies the same
Five parts must make a 2 1/4in" cube
Some should interlock
SKETCHES-Below is a slideshow of my sketches I drew when designing my cube.
Inventor Model Sketch- Below is a sketch of how my cube goes together
Below is a slideshow of my inventor sketches of my cubes parts.
Below is a video of my cube parts coming together on Inventor
Reflection- To make the cube I first came up with many solutions and choose the best one that created a 2 1/4in" cube. I made sure it was challenging and interlocked, and contained 5 pieces that each consist of 4-6 individual cubes glued together. I then created the cube pieces based off the sketches I drew. Then I colored each piece different colors. Then I sketched the pieces on Inventor and created a video of the puzzle pieces, for a demo and so you can see how it goes together. I came across many setbacks including tons of computer problems and designing the brown piece wrong. I learned how to use inventor and also learned its not as easy as it seems making a puzzle cube.