![]() ![]() ![]() So you would need to add 2 plates below the brick to get the height of the stack (3 plates + 2 plates) to match the width of the 1×2 plate which also happens to be 2 studs. Replace the 1×1 plate with a 1×2 plate and you would have an overhang that is the 1 extra stud (2.5 plates) minus 0.5 plate = 2 plates high. The plate would cover the square portion but not the 0.5 plate high sliver below it. If you look closer at a brick with a stud on its side, you will see that the stud is centered in the square portion and that way if you were to attach a 1×1 plate to the face of the brick, its upper edge would be flush with the top of the brick (not including the stud). It is useful to think of the rectangular face of the 1×1 brick as being made up of a square that is 2.5 plates on a side that sits above a sliver that is 0.5 plates high. This would not match the spacing between the 6 studs on the 1×6 plate which as we saw before is 1 stud = 2.5 plates. If we had a stack of 5 bricks with studs on their sides, we would have 5 studs on the face of the wall and the spacing between these studs would be equal to the height of each brick which is 3 plates. If our wall used bricks with studs on their sides, could we just turn the 1×6 plate on its side and attach it to the face of the wall ? Not really. This is the same as the height of a wall built by stacking 5 bricks on top of each other (each brick is 3 plates high x 5 = 15 plates). What does this 6/5 ratio mean in practical terms anyway ? Let’s start with the width of a 1×6 plate which is 6 studs = 6 x 2.5 plates = 15 plates. This is an important ratio to remember when you are building sideways. So clearly, a 1×1 brick is a little taller than it is wide and the ratio of the height to width is 6/5. The actual width of a 1×1 brick is more like 0.78 cm (to allow clearance between bricks when they are placed abutting each other). ![]() Keep in mind that all these are nominal measurements. 1 stud also represents the stud pitch (or the distance center to center between any two adjacent studs on a LEGO brick or plate). The width of a 1×1 brick (0.8 cm) which we usually refer to as 1 stud is equivalent to 2.5 plates. Using this unit, the height of a brick (0.96 cm) is 3 plates. I have always preferred to use a simpler unit – the thickness of a plate (which is 0.32 cm and is equivalent to 2 LUs or 8 LDUs). There are a few different units that have been used to measure the dimensions of LEGO elements such as LU (LEGO Units) and LDU (LDraw Units), not to forget centimeters (metric units work better than US customary units like inches). ![]() The LEGO bricks being made today are fully compatible with the bricks made during the earliest days of LEGO. But one thing that hasn’t changed in all these years is the size of the brick itself. In the 60+ years since the invention of these plastic bricks, LEGO has grown to become the biggest toy company in the world. While we may think of the 1×1 brick as the most basic LEGO element, one interesting piece of trivia is that the first brick that was actually invented and patented back in 1958 by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen was the 2×4 brick. Yes, there are tiles too but tiles are essentially plates with no studs. Bricks are the basic building blocks of LEGO while plates are their thinner counterparts. The most common LEGO elements can be classified into two categories – bricks and plates. These are the bricks that are designed to facilitate sideways building, but they are a relatively recent development in the overall history of LEGO (most of them were introduced in just the last 10-15 years).īefore we get into the how and why of SNOT, it may be useful to get a little refresher on LEGO bricks and their geometry. If you look through the bricks that make up any recent LEGO set, there is a good chance that you will see some bricks that have studs (bumps) not just on the top but on their sides as well. SNOT is an abbreviation (though not the most elegant one) for “ Studs Not On Top”. The SNOT I am referring to here is not what you are probably thinking of, but a technique that is used by LEGO builders to build sideways (instead of stacking bricks one on top of the other). There’s definitely some blood, sweat and tears involved and not to forget, some SNOT. Michigan Avenue (John Hancock Center)Ĭreating your own builds using LEGO bricks can sometimes be a lot of hard work.
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