3D Design

Start Here

• Learning TinkerCAD (ask Mr. Whitmer for a link)

• Pick a project/challenge or two or three

  • Beginner to Advanced Beginner Projects

    • Keychain or Luggae Tag

      • Step by Step Guide (is keyring hole too small?)

        • Sample I (connected letters) https://www.tinkercad.com/things/2zNGaice3AB i

        • Sample II (baseplate with letters) https://www.tinkercad.com/things/6A07DtC6iln 

        • Sample III (letters as holes) https://www.tinkercad.com/things/clSyFxMPQce  

      • Alternative Keychain - Tutorial

    • Make a Tinkercad House Step by Step for Absolute Beginners

    • Absolute Beginner Tinkercad Car Tutorial for 2022 | Shortcuts & More

  • Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Projects

    • Personalized Board Game Pieces

    • Design a car or a scribble car

    • Build A Snowman

    • Storystarter Dice

    • Marble Maze

    • Balloon powered car (challenging)

    • Mask Hooks & Lock (part II is challenging)

  • Intermediate Projects

    • Projects / Challenges

Samples

• Car - CWH3 JMW12

• TinkerCAD Learning Center

• TinkerCAD Project Ideas (some are too hard)

• Hour of Code TinkerCAD Projects

  • Code-generated Patterns in Tinkercad

  • Using Loops in Tinkercad to Design a Bursting Star

  • Designing with Algorithms in Tinkercad

  • Designing Icicles with Codeblocks in Tinkercad

Challenges

• Explore TinkerCAD

• Complete an existing TinkerCAD Challenge

  • Balloon Powered Car

  • Create a 3D Printed Penny Whistle

• Master TinkerCAD

• Master Fusion 360

• Design a functional object to be printed with a 3D printer

• Design an art object to be printed in a 3D printer

• Design a functional object or part to be printed with a laser cutter

• Design an art object to be printed or etched with a laser cutter/engraver

  • Learn TinkerCAD

Tools

• Software

  • TinkerCAD

  • Fusion 360

  • Meshmixer - Add supports for printing - https://www.meshmixer.com/

Resources & How-To's

• LinkedIn Learning

  • • Learning TinkerCAD (ask Mr. Whitmer for a link)

    • Tinkercad: Modeling Custom Designs for 3D Printing

    • Fusion 360 Essential Training

• Tinkercad Posters (download) - Navigate; Place; Scale; Move and Rotate; Group; Hole; Duplicate; Mirror; Align; Cruise

• TinkerTips from AutoDesk

• Learning to use MakerBot 3D Printers (free with Baldwin or West Bloomfield library card)

• 10 things to know when you know nothing about 3D Printing

• Sample Tutorial - MakerBot Replicator 2

• Thingiverse

• SketchUp Make

• SketchUp

• Export to Stl (Unit Millimeters) - How to export .stl files from Tinkercad - YouTube

• • Video Tutorials

  • Community Forums

  • http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials

  • http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/introduction-to-3d-design-printing-for-kids

  • How to Print

    • http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2013/12/09/makerbot-makerware-2-4-1-release/

    • http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2014/10/29/makerbot-software-new-makerbot-desktop/

  • Export to

    • These websites show you how to export your .skp file to an .stl file

    • https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sketchup-stl

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13hXothTtaU (Good video watch from 1:44)

    • Once you have gone through the directions it will ask for the export unit (Size) and ASCII or Binary These websites will help you decide Binary or ASCII http://jcflowers1.iweb.bsu.edu/rlo/makerbot.htm

Tips And Tricks