Students were given a challenge to create a difficult 3-D puzzle by designing and building puzzle parts in Pro-Engineer. Time yourself to see how long it takes you to solve the different puzzles and compare your scores with other students. Do you have the visualization skills it takes to solve the puzzles quickly? See how your visualization skills improve with practice. The puzzle instructions and links to several of the student puzzles are given below.
| Arrange the puzzle pieces to form a solid cube with the other pieces. The pieces must not overlap and exactly fit on top of the white platform. Drag the platform with the mouse to change your viewpoint of the cube. |
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| The pieces may be arranged using the panel controls. Select a piece to control by selecting a part on the control panel. The slider controls move the selected part along the three colored axes. Clicking on the rotate controls will rotate the selected part about the corresponding colored axis. |
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To make your own puzzle you must create four puzzle pieces as VRML files. The pieces can be created using a program like Pro-Engineer or a variety of other programs that output files as VRML. The four piece puzzle must form a 1.5m cube. Each piece must have a distinct color and must be placed within a 1.5m cube centered on the origin. In Pro-Engineer the origin is the intersection of the Front, Right, and Top datums.
All verticies on each part should be located on a 3-D grid with a spacing of 0.25m. It is best to limit all dimensions to 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5 on your parts if possible. The four parts that you use for the puzzle must be called PART1.WRL, PART2.WRL, PART3.WRL, and PART4.WRL. Save your parts in a directory with your name FIRST_LAST (no spaces) and include the files in this ZIP File. Replace the VRML part files with your four parts. The other files are needed for the puzzle to work correctly.