Probably this is wildly known, but the closest I found was a surface with additional restrictive conditions. A perfect cuboid is a cuboid having integer side lengths, integer face diagonals and an integer space diagonal leading to positive integer solutions of: $$a^2+b^2=s_1^2\qquad \qquad \rm(1)$$ $$a^2+c^2=s_2^2\qquad \qquad \rm(2)$$ $$b^2+c^2=s_3^2\qquad \qquad \rm(3)$$ $$a^2+b^2+c^2=s_1^2+c^2 =s_4^2\qquad \qquad \rm(4)$$ wlog one can work with rationals and dividing by $c^2$ one can assume $c=1$ making (2) and (3) $a^2+1=s_2^2$ and $b^2+1=s_3^2$ and they can be parametrized by the substitutions $a=\dfrac{u^2-1}{2u}$ and $b=\dfrac{v^2-1}{2v}$ This leaves only (1) and (4). $s_1^2+1=s_4^2$ leads to the next parametrization $s_4=\dfrac{s^2+1}{s^2-1}$ and $s_1=\dfrac{2s}{s^2-1}$. This makes (1) and (4) equal and the denominator vanish for $u=0$,$v=0$ or $s= \pm 1$. So the surface comes from the numerator of (1): $u^{4} v^{2} s^{4} + u^{2} v^{4} s^{4} - 2 u^{4} v^{2} s^{2} - 2 u^{2} v^{4} s^{2} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} s^{4} + u^{4} v^{2} + u^{2} v^{4} - 8 u^{2} v^{2} s^{2} + u^{2} s^{4} + v^{2} s^{4} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} - 2 u^{2} s^{2} - 2 v^{2} s^{2} + u^{2} + v^{2} = 0$ The trivial rational points contain $0$ and $\pm 1$. >(A) Does the surface contain all perfect cuboids? > >(B) Is there a reason/heuristic to believe the surface might have non trivial rational points? **EDIT** Per John's answer some congruences were found on the homogenized surface $u^{4} v^{2} s^{4} + u^{2} v^{4} s^{4} - 2 u^{4} v^{2} s^{2} h^{2} - 2 u^{2} v^{4} s^{2} h^{2} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} s^{4} h^{2} + u^{4} v^{2} h^{4} + u^{2} v^{4} h^{4} - 8 u^{2} v^{2} s^{2} h^{4} + u^{2} s^{4} h^{4} + v^{2} s^{4} h^{4} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} h^{6} - 2 u^{2} s^{2} h^{6} - 2 v^{2} s^{2} h^{6} + u^{2} h^{8} + v^{2} h^{8}$ $$ v^{2} \cdot u^{2} \cdot s^{4} \cdot (u^{2} + v^{2}) \equiv 0 \mod {h}$$ $$ (s - h)^{2} \cdot (s + h)^{2} \cdot v^{2} \cdot h^{4} \equiv 0 \mod u$$ $$ (s - h)^{2} \cdot (s + h)^{2} \cdot u^{2} \cdot h^{4} \equiv 0 \mod v$$ $$ h^{4} \cdot (u^{4} v^{2} + u^{2} v^{4} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} h^{2} + u^{2} h^{4} + v^{2} h^{4}) \equiv 0 \mod s$$ The substitution $ s = u^{4} v^{2} + u^{2} v^{4} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} + u^{2} + v^{2}$ leads to a factor: $$ u^{4} v^{2} + u^{2} v^{4} - 4 u^{2} v^{2} + u^{2} + v^{2} = 0$$ This is genus 1 curve with known trivial points, and it is of rank 0 (if I have done the computations right).