Season 1 Challenge #3 is DONE | Parametric Sketching 3/5

Community Weekly challenges
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Time for the next challenge!

What you’re building

Task: Create a parametric model of a hexagonal honeycomb. By changing a single driving parameter (variable), the entire model must adapt and transition from State A to State B without any geometry failing or breaking constraints.

The rules
Fixed Dimensions: A
Driving Parameter: B
Driven Dimensions: All other structural dimensions must automatically update to maintain the honeycomb proportions.

:warning: Important: your design history tree must contain only Sketches and Extrusions. Any other feature type results in an automatic fail.

Lvl 3 - Drawing
Lvl 3 - Drawing2803×1975 209 KB

Submit your CAD file through this link by the end of the week on Sunday.

Your results are going to be shown on the leaderboard after the submissions are evaluated.

Scoring reminder

  • Complete the challenge → earn 10 completion point
  • Complete the challenge successfully → earn 6 success points
  • First 5 people to submit gets → 5-4-3-2-1 points (only correct answers count)
  • Stay consistent across the challenge → after 3 participations you get 3 extra points, after all 5 participations you get additional 10 points

As usual, questions are welcome here. Good luck :four_leaf_clover:

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I think you may have used the description of last week’s challenge by mistake here.

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Fixed, Thanks for spotting @DrKronos!

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I used a plane to set an array direction (in the same plane as the sketch itself), which I left in the history. I don’t think that breaks the sketches+extrusion rule, does it?

it turns out you can delete the plane and it has no effect on the operation of the sketch.

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i give up.

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Don’t give up!

There is still some days left from this challenge!

Don’t forget about the final prize in Season 1- Parametric Sketching Challenge:

  • 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse
  • giftable Shapr3D subscription
  • exclusive merch
  • digital community badge

We are halfway, there is still a lot of points to be collected.
Check the current standings on the Leaderboard here: Leaderboard - Parametric Sketching - #7 by Ambrus

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Both my iPad Air 4th gen and my iPad M5 pro hang a lot when changing the variable I’ve assigned to the hexagon parallel distance.

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I joined from challenge 2 and 3, but didn’t see any update about my points, my result or any replies. What’s wrong with my account?

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Didn’t get it - but put a few hours in and learnt a bit. My iPads and iMac were hanging as my hexagon count increased so I figured i was not going down the correct design route.

Got the outer tiles to change parametrically. Submitted in the hope I would get some credit for trying.

Look forward to seeing the solution!

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Time to wrap up Challenge #3.

Thank you for participating. How did you find this challenge?

Before we get to the score, here’s the solution:

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One of our users, @Xdrakosha, also shared their own solution, and we think it is a good alternative approach. Check it out to discover other ways to solve the problem and see a different workflow.