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Tinkercad Chess Piece

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In this tutorial you will learn how to use the basics of Tinkercad by creating a chess piece, a pawn.
Creating the Base
Creating the Middle
Creating the Top
Congratulations!!! You Just Created a Chess Piece!

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the basics of Tinkercad by creating a chess piece, a pawn.

The first step is creating the base. Drag a cylinder into your workspace and shrink it so it is 3 tall.
In the cylinder’s settings, change the sides to its maximum, 64. This will make everything look smoother
Now to finish the base, drag a cone to your workspace and move it up so that it is off the ground at the same height of the cylinder you just made.
Make the cone 2 tall, then in the cone settings, set the sides to 64 and the top radius to be 8.
Use the align tools to line up the cylinder and cone and then group them together to make the base.

One of the best parts of design is you can create the same thing in many different ways. You can make the middle using the exact same method you used with the cone creating a base, but here you’re going to use a different method.
Drag a cone into the workspace and move it up so that it is the height of the base, here 5.
In the settings of the cone, set the base radius to a little less than the base, here 7.5 and again, set the sides to 64.
Bring the top of the cone to around double of what it was previously, around 40 high.
Add a cube hole into your workspace, bring it up to around height 20 and put it over the cone you just placed so it completely covers the top of it. You may need to increase the size of the hole.
Now Align the middle and the base and if you want, group them together.

Drag a cylinder into your workspace, set the sides to 64 and the height to 1.
Set the size to be a little smaller than the size of the base, 13 is used here, and bring it up so it is on top of the middle.
Bring a sphere into the workspace and set its steps to the maximum, 24.
Make the sphere a little smaller than the size of the top cylinder you just made, 10 is used here, and bring it up so the bottom of the sphere is touching the cylinder.
Finally, align and group everything together.