Epic! Tinkercad steps to design an accurate historical building... for FREE!

[Music] good day 3d Vermont friends today i'ma show you how we can complete our project using Tinkercad start by clicking create new design when it launches you should name it I'm making my nifty building in Wilder Vermont I notice we cannot build in feet all we can do our millimeters and inches I'm gonna stay with inches in my grid fits 200 by 200 so I'm just gonna tell it okay I'm gonna start by finding my building in Google Earth I have hit search and typed wild in Vermont and now I need to find out how large this building is they give me a nice top view ruler so I can click on it and I can measure it across and find out that it is 86 feet in that direction I'm gonna hit escape and then I'm gonna measure this direction so I can find the main part of my building so it's gonna be 70 by 86 I'm gonna go back to Tinkercad and I'm gonna bring out that cube this side would be my 86 side click this corner and make this my 70 side now you may want to write all these numbers down as you do it I'm gonna just go back and forth between the project as I build it so let's go I'm gonna hit escape again let's calculate this distance so that's 12 feet I'm gonna zoom in and make sure I really got it right though so I'm gonna hit escape that's 11 feet I'm gonna click escape and so I'm gonna move 11 feet in and I'm gonna make a 12 foot by 32 foot chunk coming off the wall and that'll be the same on both sides so 12 by 32 11 feet in let's go back to the project now we're really not working in feet we're just marking in millimeters so I'm gonna help myself out by clicking on the shape moving right to its selection and I'm gonna put it right on a millimeter grid line so now I can drag in this new box and remember this new box was 12 by 32 and then if I line it up what's this fat corner and I'm just using the arrow keys remember it was 11 that way I'm gonna make my life easier for counting I'm gonna go by fives there's 10 switch my grid back to 1 notice I'm doing 1 not point 1 and there is my 12 by 32 I'm gonna do ctrl D or duplicate I'm gonna go back to those fives to move it all the way across just using the arrow key to nudge it to the other side it does not quite connect when I used my back view I like the back corner better click on it switch back to my one millimeter grid snap those over till they're connected and then I'm gonna take those three items and make them one large part of my building now we need to find a height to do that I first need you to go to the Chrome Web Store and I need you to add the page ruler once you've got that added it'll be right here and then go back to Google Earth zoom out a little bit so you can drop the little street view dude a little bit to the right of your building or you can pick wherever it has to be for you I have to go here so this tree is not in my now this part should make your math teachers proud we are gonna use a spreadsheet you can get a link and make it copy to this using the file make a copy choice from the video we need a known distance and we're gonna do the front of the building using that new ruler tool so when you click it it lets you grab the chunk you care about and I'm gonna do just the front of my building get it as close as you can to perfect notice the image is skewed so it may be a little off but check this out it is 781 pixels wide so that we can go back to our pixels and we can change that number to 781 and then we know that the building was 86 feet and then we can use these two numbers to calculate other things let's start with the height I'm gonna draw a new rectangle it just goes from the bottom to the top notice I always keep it nice and skinny so that way it's easy to tell oh the width was 8 but that height I wanted was 375 we type 375 pixels right here since we know three of the numbers it is now just a simple proportion if you double click the formula you'll see it's just pixels x feet and then divide it by pixels to get our solution and then I've made it absolute so that you can copy it all the way down and it will calculate for all the ones you put in so let's go back to our Tinkercad design and let's make it 41 feet tall that is starting to look like the front of our building let's calculate a window click by simply grabbing a window and getting its measurements it is 84 pixels high and 38 pixels wide 84 press enter and 38 press enter so our windows are each nine feet by four feet approximately let's return to Tinkercad real quick and let's make a window I'm gonna cut my windows into the building here's my four feet wide here's my nine feet tall granted memory these are all millimeters but we'll worry about that conversion we're done and I want to cut into the wall one millimeter so that is what a window is gonna look like I'm gonna drag that window right to the edge and I'm gonna sink it into my building so it's flat now let's figure out how high the window has to go so we are gonna raise it up and over so this is from the edge we're gonna move 28 pixels left and 98 pixels high let's go back to our spreadsheet you can write in any labels you want I just did these for my project so there's my 28 and there's my 98 so I'm gonna move three millimeters to the left and I'm gonna go 10 our 11 millimeters up I'll see how it looks when I get in it I'm still set to 1 so there's no one two three and then I'm gonna cheat to go up my 10 and just go to clicks now notice I'm using the cone or watch this if I change my work plane which is the letter W now the work plane is this wall so the up arrow moves it up I'm gonna change that work plane back to the ground because my next window has to go to the left I'm gonna switch to my one millimeter measurement do control D which is duplicate and I'm just gonna tap it to the left and I'm gonna put that gap between it I'm gonna do control D again and it memorizes those steps and I now have my first set of three windows I'm gonna hide in my building real quick grab those three windows and I want to make them a group cuz all of the windows go in threes I'm gonna do ctrl D and I'm gonna nudge that to the left and I'm just putting a double gap in between them let's bring back our building and take a look at how close that is to perfect this was the show that brings it back I'm gonna do hide again I'm gonna grab all of those windows and I'm gonna group them I'm gonna do show I'm gonna do duplicate this time I'll use this button where it still shows you the control D this time I'm gonna move by fives then I'm just tapping my left arrow to move it across to that wall notice my distance is already pretty accurate if you want to make it more accurate you can do your measurements back in Google Earth that is up to you I am definitely gonna change mine and bring it one more click to the right but I have to switch to the one millimeter move right there I think is a great match I'm gonna hold down shift and select both those sets of windows after I hide the building and then I'm going to do ctrl D bring back the building I want to go up but I don't want to use the cone I want to use the arrow keys so I'm gonna do my work playing again on the front of the building and now when I tap that up arrow my windows moved up to the location I want them real quickly I'm gonna take a peek at my Google Earth and let's see what kind of gap there is between these two sets of Windows it is height 43 so if I go back to my spreadsheet my between window measurement is 43 so that means that should be about 5 millimeters up let's double check if I come down here and go one two three four five now my window should be the same distance I'm going to shut off that work plane take a look at it take a look at it I'm pretty happy with that but I think I want to raise those up one more click it just felt like they were a little higher on the real one so work playing get it so us on that front face I'm gonna hide the building for a second hold shift so I can select both of those and I'm just gonna go up one more click show all I like that better and now I'm gonna group everything so my windows are actually cut out let's put our work plane back to the ground take a look at our Google image I want to add this piece of brickwork real quick once again I'm gonna grab the little measuring tool and it looks like this one needs to be 319 across by seven pixels wide and it's partner on the other side 202 by 11 so it's by 11 pixels the one that's 323 will be 35 across the other one I'm gonna put it 200 let's add those click and see what they look like there's my 35 I'm gonna have these stick out 0.5 millimeters so they're gonna stick out from the wall let's see what this looks like if we go one millimeter I I think that is a good number I'm gonna do ctrl D to duplicate that and bring the other one over here and then all I have to do is take that measurement and change it to 20 to move my brickwork to the wall remember these are gonna stick out let's make sure I actually connected them and I did and let's quickly check how high they need to be above the ground so that height above ground number is 41 back to the spreadsheet and that height of ground is 41 which is four point five millimeters so let me show you another cool trick I'm gonna lift this up wackadoodle numbers but then I'm gonna go over here and type 4.5 and press Enter BAM it goes to the exact height once again grab the cone sometimes you need to switch to a corner view so you can get the cone to turn red lift it up click the box type your real number and all of a sudden you have got the cool brickwork added to the front of your building I'm going to group those pieces all together I'm gonna change them to a color white or gray just because I think it looks a little cooler and ladies and gentlemen boys and girls we're gonna call this the end of lesson one hopefully you've learned a lot of cool strategies you can keep working on this as much as you want while you wait for lesson two to appear if you found these 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Channel: HL ModTech

Views: 2,652

Keywords: HLModTech, 3dprinting, design, stem, educational, basic skills, tinkercad, 3d vermont, competition, authentic design, historical building, scale without measuring, google earth, pixel ruler

Id: Fz6YHbQwZBI

Length: 13min 40sec (820 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 25 2018