TinkerCAD

tinyurl.com/bcstinkercad

• TinkerCAD (main website)

  • Get class join code

• TinkerCAD Skills - video tutorials (see below for individual links)

Project Ideas

• • Beginner to Advanced Beginner Projects

    • Keychain or Luggage 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

    • Turtle Project

    • Chomping Fish Project

  • Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Projects

    • Make a Tinkercad House Step by Step for Absolute Beginners

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

    • Personalized Board Game Pieces

    • Design a car or a scribble car

    • Build A Snowman

    • Storystarter Dice

    • Marble Maze

    • Mask Hooks & Lock (part II is challenging)

  • Intermediate Projects

    • Projects / Challenges

    • Balloon Powered Car

    • Create a 3D Printed Penny Whistle

    • TinkerCAD Project Ideas (some are too hard)

    • Master ALL TinkerCAD Skills (Tinkercad Skill List)

  • Advanced Projects

    • 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

Resources

• TinkerCAD Learning Center

• TinkerCAD Skills - video tutorials (see below)

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

• TinkerTips from AutoDesk

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

Video Tutorials

1. 1. Navigating in Tinkercad

   2. Setting up the grid

   3. Adding and moving shapes

   4. Scaling and changing dimensions

   5. Using shape controls

   6. Rotating shapes

   7. Selecting shapes

   8. Using the Workplane

   9. Measuring with the Ruler

   10. Grouping and ungrouping

   11. Using hole shapes

   12. Aligning shapes

   13. Using the Mirror tool

   14. Color and transparency

   15. Copying shapes

   16. Duplicating shapes

   17. Shape Generators

   18. The Scribble tool

   19. The Text tool

   20. Part Maker

   21. Splitting a design

   22. Exporting a design

   23. Importing STL File

   24. Export for laser cutter