Change pin design

[katistix]

A request to change the design of the pins.

Why?

The current pin design is just a simple cylinder with a lip. This makes it very hard to impossible to have the right tolerances on the 3d printer so that the piece would fit as intended.

Solution

Make the pins "flexible". Like the actual legos, the pin/peg, has the ends open and have a cut. This makes the piece's end flexible and easier to fit to other pieces.

[marian42]

Just wanted to say, I agree with the request, the current solution is suboptimal.

There are two reasons why this hasn't been done yet:

• with the way the mesh generation is set up now, it's quite difficult to generate complicated geometry, such as a bifurcated pin
• the resulting geometry would be so small that it's hard to achieve on a 3D printer. Depending on the layer orientation, the two halves would probably break off instead of flexing