Build the solid puzzles
This is the reverse of drawing views. You get the top, front and side view of a solid and a sheet of isometric paper, and you draw the shape that matches all three. Every puzzle is checked so that exactly one shape fits, and the answer page shows it. Print a fresh one in a click.
See the three views, draw the one solid that fits.
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Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the figure.
Two pages: the puzzle and its answer. Every figure is checked before it prints, so the answer is never wrong, by the same engine as our KDP studio.
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The puzzle and its answer, as they print.
Flat to 3D
Build the solid
Three filled-in views, top, front and side, and a sheet of isometric paper below them to draw on.
How to solve it
- 1The top view is your map. It shows which floor squares hold a stack of cubes. Start by marking those columns.
- 2The front and side views give the height. Each one caps how tall a column may grow along that direction. A column can only be as tall as both views allow, so take the shorter answer.
- 3Build from the floor up, then check. Place cubes so none float. When all three views match your shape, you are done.
- A promise about every puzzle
- Exactly one shape fits all three views with no floating cubes. If you find a shape that matches, it is the answer, and there is no other.
- What the answer page shows
- The answer page draws the solid on the isometric grid.
- How the grades differ
- Difficulty is how many features the solid has, such as notches, steps and tunnels. Slopes are left out of this type on purpose: a sloped face cannot be pinned down from flat views alone, and every puzzle here must have one answer.
- Good for
- Isometric drawing practice, the reverse of plan-and-elevation work, and the hardest of the three for a confident solver.
The other two puzzle types
- 3D to a numberCount the cubesA stack of unit cubes drawn in 3D on a faint floor grid, and one question: how many cubes make up the figure, including the ones you cannot see?
- 3D to flatDraw the viewsA solid drawn in 3D, with arrows marking the top (T), front (F) and side (S), and three empty grids beside it.
Making a whole puzzle book?
This page makes one puzzle. To publish a book on Amazon KDP, the KDP spatial puzzle maker generates hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF. Generate once, export unlimited sizes.
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Questions
- Are these build the solid puzzles free to print?
- Yes. Generate the puzzle above and print it with its answer, at no cost and with no sign-up. It is free for classroom, home and personal use.
- Do the build the solid puzzles come with answers?
- Yes. Every puzzle prints as two pages: the puzzle on page one and the finished solid drawn on the grid on page two. The answer is drawn from the same figure as the puzzle, and every figure is checked before it prints, so the answer is never wrong.
- Can I make a spatial puzzle book to sell on KDP?
- Yes. The free tool makes one puzzle. Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded puzzles of one type, with an optional how-to-solve page, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior and answer-key PDF, so you can publish a book.