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A tutorial, Learning the Moves, is available for you after you login and enter the software. The tutorial opens TinkerCad and helps you work through basic skills. Once in the tutorial you can click Next in the left hand column to proceed through the tutorial. You can continue through a set of lessons to learn the basic controls in Tinkercad. You can also find these lessons on the Tinkercad Basic Skills Page. They are:
Learning the Moves
Camera Controls
Creating Holes
Scale, Copy & Paste
Key Ring, Letters!
Die on the Workplane
After practicing the basic skills, follow this tutorial for creating a Chess Pawn.
Do you need more practice? This video, an Introduction to TinkerCad, takes you through logging in, creating a new project, reviewing the camera controls (note, your controls may be different on a Chromebook and controls are easier using a mouse), and the steps to create the Chess Pawn. When using the video, consider using two screens or laying two browser windows side-by-side so that you can work in TinkerCad along with the video.
Review this series of videos and choose skills you still want to practice: Tinkercad Tutorial – Complete Guide
This course in PrintLab, Designing in Thinkercad for 3D Printing, gives you tips for creating Tinkercad files for 3D printing. This is worth looking at. Tips for designing with a variety of features are included, such as overhangs and bridges, wall thickness, and orientation for printing. The files for printing the shapes in the video are included. Signing up for this course will also give you access to a wide variety of additional courses around 3D printing with Tinkercad.
Printing a file created in Tinkercad.
Export your Tinkercad file by choosing Export in the upper right menu. Save the file in the proper format.
Upload the file into Tinkerine Cloud in order to splice and send to your printer.
In Tinkercad Teach find resources to complete the following tasks:
Add your students to Tinkercad Classrooms. The Teacher How To slideshow (slides 10 - 25) also has directions.
Have your students sign in. Notice that you can do this through Google Classroom.
Explore lesson plans that involve the use of Tinkercad with your students.
Download a customable file from Thingiverse. Upload it to Tinkercad, modify it and print it on your 3D printer. You can also use the Customizer built into Thingiverse to customize a file.