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(Truly) Impossible Dovetail box

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This little box is my take on the classic impossible dovetail box. It's an interesting conversation piece, because unless you know the secret it is literally impossible to open. You will need a bit of 1/8th inch steel (or some other magnetic material) round bar and a fairly strong magnet as well as the 3d printed pieces here. I got the round bar from Home Depot, but I imagine that most home goods stores would have them. I used [these](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XD2X45M) magnets from amazon.

I suggest using a 5% infill and a modifier box under the hole that doesn't go all the way to the bottom if your slicer allows it. I set the infill for the modifier to be 15% and rectilinear with good results. If your slicer doesn't support it (or you don't know how) you can just use 15% or higher infill for the whole piece, you'll just waste a bit more material than is strictly necessary. The tolerances are fairly tight at .1mm all the way around (.2mm total tolerance), so if your mac
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Intermediate Low confidence
Single piece Hardware needed
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Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
Post-processing
Hardware
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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