Building with SNOT Techniques

First of all what are SNOT-techniques? SNOT means Studs Not On Top and as it describes building with bricks not facing the "usual" way. SNOT-techniques can be very helpful for your creations as they often allow for stable connections and structures that would not be possible otherwise.

This tutorial will focus on the basics of building with SNOT-techniques.

Let us start at the very beginning:

As you definitely know Lego bricks are bigger in height than in width.
A 1x1 brick is 9,5mm high (stud not included) and 7,5mm wide. A plate is a third of a brick which means it's about 3,17mm high.
If you do the math then you will notice that a brick and two plates (or simply 5 plates) are equal to the width of 2 studs.

That is a very cool and useful fact:

As you can see the four stud plate is exactly as high as two bricks and four plates. That means you can attach plates to walls simply by putting two plates between every brick with side-stud.

Next I will be taking a closer look at the angular brick:

The angular brick is the same as a normal brick with side-stud except for the fact that the stud is shifted to the inside for the height of half a plate.
This is indeed very useful in many situations:

For example you can create a three brick-high structure with studs at the bottom and top:

You can even make one with studs on four sides:

Let us now get to angular plates:

Angular plates are similar to angular bricks but instead of being shifted inwards the stud connection is shifted outwards for the height of half a plate.

Here is another useful creation that once more proves the statement from the beginning of the tutorial:

This is a visual proof that two plates and half a plate are equal to the width of one stud:

So these are my tips for building with SNOT-techniques.
You can of course combine all those tips and make more advanced structures:

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