Enclosures and housings
Twisting Tower
- Bounding box
- 56.6 × 56.6 × 155.0 mm
- Engine
- Precision B-rep
- Parameters
- 8
- Published
- August 7, 2026
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The prompt
The plan: "Same Base, Rotating Twist" Base footprint: one box, 40×40mm (or a hexagon prism if you want it fancier — but square is fastest). Fixed floor height: 15mm for every floor. Never change this — it's what makes stacking painless. The "different every floor" trick: duplicate the floor and rotate each one a few degrees (like 5°) around the center before stacking. This gives you a twisting skyscraper — looks impressive, but it's literally just copy → rotate → stack. Every floor is technically different (different rotation angle) with almost zero extra work. Windows: add a row of small box or cylinder holes to your first floor, group it, then that pattern carries up automatically since you're duplicating the whole floor. Solo build steps in Tinkercad: Build Floor 1: box (40×40×15mm) + row of window holes, group into one object. Copy/paste it → rotate copy by 5° → use Align tool to center it on top of Floor 1. Repeat: copy the previous floor, rotate another 5° extra, stack again. After 10 floors, add a flat roof cap or small rooftop box on top for a finished look. 1-hour solo time budget: 10 min: build floor 1 template with windows 25 min: duplicate/rotate/stack 9 more floors (~2.5 min each once you get a rhythm) 10 min: roof + base/lobby details 15 min: buffer, fix alignment, render/export This gets you a genuinely striking twisting tower where "every floor is different" is satisfied automatically, and you're never starting a floor from zero.
Parameters
| Name | Value | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Floor Width | 40 mm | 10 – 200 |
| Floor Height | 15 mm | 5 – 50 |
| Roof Height | 5 mm | 1 – 20 |
| Window Width | 8 mm | 1 – 20 |
| Window Height | 10 mm | 1 – 30 |
| Windows Per Side | 3 | 0 – 10 |
| Number of Floors | 10 | 2 – 50 |
| Rotation Step (deg) | 5 ° | 0 – 45 |
Every value above is a live dimension. Open a model like this in the editor and each one becomes a slider you can drag before exporting.
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