Editing Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling With Claude (section)

=== Polarity ===

Not everything went super well. I made the classic mistake of everyone who does this: I didn't keep the polarity right for the magnets. So what happened was that two of the surfaces would push against each other rather than pulling together. Rookie mistake!

I had a trick to make sure I'd get the polarity right. I put the first one in, then I put a second one on top of it and slid it aside till it was in the second hole. Then I'd put the next one on top of the first one and then place the hole on top of it and move it away. In this way the polarity is always aligned between the meeting surfaces.

I lost 3 magnets and two prints to this because the left-side and the middle, and the left-side and the right-side were both misaligned. Whoops!