Ep. 1 3D modeling - MAKING CUSTOM BENDS AND CURVES ADVANCED TINKERCAD

welcome to my advanced tinkercad modeling instructional series i've been using tinkercad for almost 10 years and have taken it about as far as it can go before moving on to other cad programs such as fusion 360 and blender but i still use tinkercad to make some amazing models these are a few examples of projects i've made completely using tinkercad there are already a zillion basic modeling tutorials online so in this series i'm showing you some advanced tricks if you want to take this program to its limits in this episode we're going to create custom shaped curved shields tinkercad is great for making geometric shapes but not so great for making curved objects here's a trick i've been using for producing curved shapes such as this fender shield seen on my atst models which were made 100 in tinkercad [Music] let's go ahead and get started okay we are going to make a curved shield similar to this now you can't do this with the native tools in tinkercad so we're going to draw out vectors to make this possible so i am in coreldraw you can do this also in inkscape illustrator whatever you like to use alright so i'm going to start right there with a bezier tool to draw this curve and i need to make this thicker i'm going to ah that's too thick i'm going to make this about a 16 point line yeah let's make it maybe a little thinner let's do 14. okay so here this dictates the curve we are going to convert this to an object we're going to make this a hairline we're going to turn off the fill okay here's our object there's our side curve i'm gonna as best i can match the height of this and we are going to draw the shape of the shield i think i'll do something like this [Music] i'm not trying to make this exact i'm just trying to give you a little example here let's close off that line okay so we have the shape of our curve the profile oops the profile of the curve and then we need to make a cookie cutter so i'm going to grab another instance of this duplicate it bring it out over here and i'm going to make a cookie cutter out of this [Music] let's make this a larger area okay so we have these three shapes i'm going to copy these guys open a new project i'm going to increase my page setup here a little bit we're going to paste those objects okay so one at a time i'm going to save these out as svg folders so we're going to save as i'm sorry svg projects so up here we have svg so this will be called shield one control z we're gonna get rid of that we're gonna get the next shape and we're gonna call this one shield two make sure that your saving out is svg and shield three which is our cookie cutter okay so let's go ahead and start up a new folder in tinkercad actually i'm just going to use this guy here we're going to move him out of the way and start from scratch so i can show you import button we're going to choose our files and we can only choose these one at a time so here's shield one we're importing this 100 scale as artboard and we'll do this for all three objects shield two and shield cookie cutter okay let's go ahead and turn all of these objects up 90 degrees just find it easier to work with when it's oriented like this okay and then this guy i actually need to flip him around or 90 this way and we're going to push him out like so okay so this is going to be in the center of this plane so we're going to align it in the middle and then again in the middle the cookie cutter is going to be stretched out so what we're doing now is cutting off the edges of this curve with this cookie cutter so i'm going to shrink my cookie cutter down by just a little bit so i can cover all the edges let me turn it into a hole so i can see what i'm doing okay so there we go so i am covered up left right top and bottom and i'm going to select both objects group okay there is your finished shield this is just a really quicky tutorial but it gives you the basics and what you can do by importing an svg vector as a curve and then another svg vector as its shape cutter and there you go you can make curved pieces to your heart's content i used these same exact principles to make a piece like this this is one of the fenders for the return of the jedi atst so you can see where that piece lives right here this entire thing by the way was all done in tinkercad every single piece so this fender same principle we start with a vector drawing just kind of draw a straight line here and i think there's like a little bit of a little bit of a hump or something here then it goes to a curve i don't know something like this all right same thing boy this is sloppy but this is just for this example i'm going to make this a let's make it again let's let's do a 14 point stroke in corel anyways we turn this into a object and we take away its fill we export this object again as svg data and we import fender we turn this so we can work with it 90 degrees [Music] widen this out so there's your your basic building blocks we're doing your custom shapes i've got ridges on it so i think what i did is i duplicated it what did i do i think i kind of elevated it i brought a subtractive box this is for making like a a raised detail on the edges here a border ridge i'm going to go ahead and center this real quick and we are going to subtract this box from the green so that you get the idea you can just keep playing with these shapes i'll have other tutorials that show you some more finer detail and more granular detail but you get the impression of what you can do very quickly and simply in tinkercad using extruded vectors thanks for watching this series feel free to leave a suggestion for future content in the comment section if you find these tutorials helpful consider hitting the like and subscribe button and hit the bell icon to be notified when future content goes live thanks for watching [Music]

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Length: 11min 52sec (712 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 09 2022