Do you wanna build a cuboctahedrooooon? (Patreon)

Okay, wonderful people, one more bolted polyhedron, and now my to-do list is done!  Well, the one about bolted polyhedra, at least :P

Yep, it's a cuboctahedron!

Made up of squares and equilateral triangles, each vertex is still identical, which means we still only need one corner bracket design (yay!).  

So, for this one you'll need:

* Eight triangles

* Six squares

* 12 cuboctahedron corner brackets

* 48 bolts

The brackets are oriented so that the long axis points along the same direction as the triangle... okay, that's not the best description, but there are only two ways to to it, and one won't work, so it'll be pretty quickly apparent whether it's correct :P

You know, in theory, I expected I would just print new brackets for each of these, and use the same parts I'd printed before.  In practice, I don't have the heart to pull them apart, so I print all the faces and bolts I need for each new structure :)

And so, there we are!  This has been one of those things that's been trundling along in the background while I was making things like the Vault Box, and it's great to finally have them sitting here in front of me in all their bolted splendour!

Like I said in the icosahedron post, I'm open to suggestions if anyone's excited for any particular polyhedron.  As you can probably tell, I'm far too easily led on things like this :)

You'll find this model under Bolted Cube on dropbox, in a folder called, not surprisingly, Cuboctahedron.

Have fun!  I sure did :)

xoxo

Sven.