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Shaun C. Bryant
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March 27, 2018

Tinkercad For Dummies

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Create in 3D with Tinkercad!

If you can dream it, you can create it—using Tinkercad. This free tool gives everyone the power to create 3D models, regardless of your level of experience. With the help of Tinkercad For Dummies, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan your designs, the know-how to utilize the platform’s drag-and-drop tools to create your design, and the information you need to print or export your designs to use them elsewhere.

Tinkercad is for everyone! It’s simple enough to be used by kids and students, but robust enough that an adult could use it to create a complex product prototype. With more than 4 million designs posted in the Tinkercad community, the platform is also popular with teachers around the world. Why not join in on the fun?

  • Create your Tinkercad account and join the community
  • Use the drag-and-drop tools to build 3D images
  • Export your designs to have them 3D printed
  • Learn the principles of great 3D design
Tinkercad is truly fun for all ages, and this hands-on guide makes it faster and easier to start using it right away!
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About The Author

Shaun C Bryant has 30 years of experience in the CAD/BIM field and is a consultant, manager, and trainer as well as a user. He teaches CAD and BIM courses at LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) and maintains the highly respected “Not Just CAD!” blog. An Autodesk Certified Professional, Shaun is also an Autodesk Expert Elite and an Autodesk Certified Instructor.

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Tinkercad is a superb cloud-based 3D design platform, which enables you to design 3D prototypes and those 3D “wow” projects that you want to show off to your friends and colleagues (and your mum and dad). Tinkercad For Dummies gives you a great grounding in how to use Tinkercad, but what about all those little shortcuts and tips and tricks that will take you from being a Tinkercad Jedi padawan to a Tinkercad Jedi master?
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It is often really tough to decide on what materials to use when 3D printing. A lot of this information, including a number of figures, actually comes from the Tinkercad blog page. It is a useful guide when you consider 3D printing your Tinkercad designs. You should consider numerous factors, including the Type of material Minimum thickness of the printed material Texture of the printed material Cost of the material (probably the most important) The cost also depends on whether the 3D print will be a prototype for a design, a gift, or even a product to sell.
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A 3D model is represented either as a full solid or a shell of a solid. Imagine an old-fashioned wooden toy block as compared to a hollow Lego™ brick. Pretty much all 3D models fall into one of two categories: Solid: These models define the volume of the object or entity they represent (like a cube, for example).
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As technology and computer hardware have moved forward and become much faster and much more capable, 3D models are now widely used anywhere in 3D graphics and CAD. Their use predates the widespread use of 3D graphics on personal computers nowadays, and many computer games used prerendered images of 3D models as sprites (not the soft drink) before computers could render them in real-time.
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3D printing in stainless steel (type 316L) combines excellent surface quality 3D prints with great resolution and a significant level of detail. Stainless steel is not as strong as titanium, but it does allow for better detail and thinner walls at a much lower price.As with nylon (polyamide), the 3D printing technology prints a stainless steel model by binding together layers of ultra-fine grains of stainless steel powder in an inkjet-like printer.
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Nylon (polyamide) comes in a raw powder format that is normally white, but it can be dyed, sprayed, or smoothed to pretty much any 3D print of any 3D design. It is also known as white plastic, durable plastic, or strong plastic.When 3D printing, the laser in the 3D printer melts the nylon powder in layers that are microns thick at exactly 170°C (338°F), thus giving you incredible flexibility in your 3D printing of your design due to this incredible accuracy.
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3D photorealistic effects achieved without wireframe modeling can be hard to distinguish when in their final form. Some of the software available has incredibly sophisticated filters that you can apply to 2D vector graphics or 2D raster graphics on transparent layers, making the finished image look remarkably realistic.
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Ceramic 3D printing is done using specially designed 3D printers. The printers use ceramic powder, placed on a powder bed to build a model, layer by layer, from bottom to top. The ceramic powder is made up of miniscule, ultra-fine particles of alumina silica ceramic. Once finished, the 3D print is removed and placed in a drying oven.
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The 3D modeling stage consists of shaping the individual objects that are used in the 3D scene. Numerous modeling techniques exist, including the following: Constructive solid geometry: This is where you create a complex 3D surface or 3D object using Boolean to combine simpler 3D objects together. Implicit surfaces: An implicit model is formed by a continuous, volumetric model, where the volume of the model forms the 3D implicit surface, developed using numerous mathematical algorithms.
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ABS stands for Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene and is often used in home-based 3D printing. ABS is classified as a thermoplastic, which means the ABS softens to be molded when heated and hardens when cooled. ABS has been widely used in many industries because of its ability to take on many forms and maintain high quality in those forms.
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When you sign up for a Tinkercad account, the login you create becomes your Autodesk ID, too, which means you can use the same login everywhere on all of the Autodesk websites. This is especially useful if you’re using other Autodesk applications, such as AutoCAD or Inventor, because it gives you an identity on the Autodesk user forums and on the Autodesk Knowledge Network, or AKN for short.
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When you set up a new Tinkercad design, it will be a blank design initially, but you’ll add to it as you go. You can even sign out of Tinkercad and return to finish it later.When you log in to Tinkercad, your Tinkercad profile is top left, along with a profile picture if you set one up. (If not, you can go to your Tinkercad account settings to add one, if you want.
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Gold is rarely 3D printed directly. Most often, gold is printed using a wax 3D print with lost wax casting process. This process uses STL files with a wax-like resin. Support structures are printed along with the model (which is often quite delicate) to ensure that the model does not fall apart during the process.
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As with gold, wax 3D printing and lost-wax casting are used to build your design when using silver. The wax printing process uses STL files with the same wax-like resin with support structures that are printed along with the model to make sure the 3D model doesn’t fall apart. These support structures are automatically generated and manually removed after the printing process.
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Instead of using powder or filament, STL files use a liquid resin to produce 3D prints. It is a liquid material, so more often than not, you will need to provide a support structure for overhanging parts and cavities.A resin 3D print is created in a tank filled with liquid resin. The 3D printing process starts with a layer of UV-sensitive liquid polymer being spread over a platform.
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Paintable resin provides all of the qualities of resin, but it has a rougher surface that provides a key for paint and color. To paint on a 3D model effectively, you need a key, which is a slightly rougher surface that allows the paint to adhere to that surface.The maker and hobbyist communities love paintable resin because they can 3D print a design and then apply colored paints to give the 3d print realism and make it look real world.
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Did you know that 3D models are, quite literally, everywhere? Many consumer products you now buy and use are 3D printed verbatim from their 3D models and used at work, in the home, and in numerous industries. The technology behind 3D is moving fast, and you’ll find that 3D “stuff” is affecting design and the human interface in ways you never thought existed.
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Because the 3D model is formed by a collection of data (points and other information), you can create these 3D models by hand (manually), algorithmically (procedural modeling), or scanned (using 3D scanning methods). You can create a 3D model in one of three popular ways: Polygonal modeling Curve modeling Digital sculpting These methods, which are described here, allow for very artistic exploration of the model with topology created over it after the models form and details have been sculpted.
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Now that there is a process where the 3D conceptual design (inside your computer) can be made into something real (outside your computer, in the REAL world), it has revolutionized the world of design. Designers and manufacturers can now 3D print anything and everything they need to.The following discussion provides just a small overview of some of the uses of 3D printed models around the world right now.
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Tinkercad is a superb cloud-based 3D design platform, which enables you to design 3D prototypes and those 3D “wow” projects that you want to show off to your friends and colleagues (and your mum and dad). Tinkercad For Dummies gives you a great grounding in how to use Tinkercad, but what about all those little shortcuts and tips and tricks that will take you from being a Tinkercad Jedi padawan to a Tinkercad Jedi master?
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Gypsum is used in powder form when 3D printing. A technology called powder binding is often used with gypsum to create 3D prints. The powder binding technique was invented at MIT in 1993. It is an additive manufacturing (AM) method that works by solidifying a powder with a binder. In 1995, the American company Z Corporation obtained the exclusive rights to this technology, and in 2012, it was acquired by 3D systems, which renamed the company to ColorJet Printing.
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Titanium is a metal used for 3D printing because it has numerous advantages over many other 3D printed metals. It is lightweight and, mechanically, very strong. More importantly, though, it is biocompatible and resists corrosion very well, hence its extensive use in high-tech fields, such as aeronautics and space exploration, and in the medical field.
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3D is the abbreviation for 3-dimensional. In the world of Computer Aided Design (CAD), 3D modeling (also known as three-dimensional modeling) is the process or workflow of developing a computer-based (mathematical) model of any surface of an object, regardless of whether it’s inanimate (such as a gear wheel) or living (such as an animal or a human being).
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