What Is "Tinkercad"?
Tinkercad is a simple, online 3D design and 3D printing app for everyone.
Tinkercad is used to make toys, prototypes, home decor, Minecraft models, jewelry and many more things.
How it works:
1. Place
Shapes are basic building blocks of Tinkercad. A shape can add or remove material. Import your own, or work with existing shapes.
2. Adjust
Move, rotate and adjust shapes freely in space. Use tools like the ruler to input exact dimensions.
3. Combine
Group together a set of shapes to create models as detailed as you want.
- Tinkercad features
- browser-based 3D design and modeling tool
- Tinkercad Basic Skills (Beta), as well as Tinkercad Projects (Beta), more Lessons, tutorials & how-to's (in English) - YouTube
- Tinkdercad Teach
- Teachers: sign in to your account to create an Invite Code from the Teach page and share it with your students. Many teachers write the code on the board.
- Students log in and access their dashboard by clicking the Tinkercad logo.
- Students enter the Invite Code in the Get Approved box. They are added to teacher’s Moderated Kids as approved Tinkercad users. Students age 13+ may create their own Tinkercad account and start designing immediately. Students age 12 and under will need the Invite Code for instant approval of their accounts.
- 3D Design Gallery
- Tinkercad Blog - From Mind to Design in Minutes
- Part of the Autodesk Family Tinkercad became part of Autodesk in 2013.
How to use Tinkercad
Sign In
- Go to https://www.tinkercad.com/.
- In the top, right corner, click "SIGN IN", (there isn't any need to sign-up; you will be using you School Account).
- Click "OR SIGN IN USING SOCIAL PROVIDERS".
- Click "Google"; if you are not already signed in to your School account, sign in now.
- click "Allow" and "Continue" (You will only need to do this the first time).
- You should now be at you profile.
How to share
- Go to https://www.tinkercad.com/ and sign in
- On the left side, under "COLLECTIONS", click on "Lessons"
- Click on the Lesson that you want to submit
- To the right of the Title, click on the Gear icon (Edit Thing properties)
- Change "Visibility" from "Private" to "Public"
- Click "Save changes"
- (If necessary, repeat Steps 2 & 3); A new section "Share with friends:" will be visible. Copy the contents of the "Link:" box and Add it as a link on the Google Classroom assignment.
- For bonus marks, right-click on the image of your project and select "Save image as" (or "Save Picture as ...") and Add it as a link on the Google Classroom assignment as well.
- Repeat Steps 1 - 8 for each object you want to submit.
To mark THIS assignment complete, ADD a link to your profile before you submit it (See my example below).
The link to your profile is in the top-right if you click on your image and then your username.