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Discover: 3D Printing
Careers of the future
- Create up an account on tinkercad.com OR sign-in using the class link
- Set Up
- Making Your Name Tag
- The Base:
- Adding Text:
- Congratulations!! You just made a beautiful name tag for yourself! Time to get 3D Printing!
- To print your name tag, go to 3D Printer OS Tutorial
Create up an account on tinkercad.com OR sign-in using the class link
Set Up
- In the top left corner, set the title of your creation: YourFirstNameTheThingVersion EX: SimeonNameBadgev1
- Then, in the bottom right, click Settings and then change your units to inches and change preset to Dremel 3D40/3D45.
- To zoom in or out, scroll up or down respectively.
- To change perspectives, either click the cube on the top right, or hold down right click and move your cursor.
Your final design will look similar to this:
Making Your Name Tag
The Base:
- First, using the basic shapes menu to the right of your workspace, drag a box into your workspace. This is how you add shapes to our project.
- Use the Shape Edit menu on the right to change the Width to 3, and height to 0.25. Make sure the radius is still 0 and the length is 1.
- Add a cylinder to your workspace and make sure the middle of the cylinder is in line with the end of the rectangle.
- Select the cylinder and drag the white rectangle in the middle of the shape down so that the height is “¼”
- Now left click and drag your cursor so that a box is made that overlaps both the base and the cylinder.
- Press “Ctrl + G” or this button in the top right corner to group these two shapes together. Now they act as one shape.
- Add another cylinder in the exact same spot you put the last cylinder
- Select the new cylinder and then click where it says “Hole.” This now changes the cylinder to a negative space that removes whatever it’s in.
- Again, select the new cylinder, hold “Shift” and drag the bottom right and top left white rectangles of the cylinder towards the center.
- Finally left click and drag so you overlap each shape and group them together again using either “Ctrl + G” or this button in the top right corner. You now have a fully complete base!
Adding Text:
- In the basic shapes menu, scroll down until you find text. Drag the text over your base (It’s okay for the moment if it doesn’t fit).
- Using the Shape Edit Menu, Change the text from “TEXT” to your name, and if you want, change the font to something else.
- Now, most likely your name will no longer fit on the base. Drag the white squares in the corners of your name to be inside the base.
- Drag the white square in the middle of your name down so that the height is now “⅜”
- Finally, now group the text and the base together!
- Now you have your finished design that looks something like this!
