Perfect Alignment: Mastering the TinkerCAD Align Tool

hey everybody Chris here and today I am going to teach you everything you need to know about the Align tool in tinkercad but before we get started I just wanted to mention I've done another video where I use everything in this video and others to create a full project from concept to 3D print in just under 30 minutes so after you're done here head over to watch that video so you can see how you can combine all of these tools to create your 3D models in tinkercad [Music] in this tutorial I'm going to show you the Align tool so let's go ahead and drag in a few boxes and let's go ahead and change the sizes of some of these and there we go so let's go to our top view let's say that I want all of these boxes perfectly centered along the same line so what I would do is I'm going to drag a box and select all of the objects I'm wanting to align and then I'm going to come up here to my align tool or you can hit L on your keyboard when you hit L on your keyboard or click on the Align button you're going to see all of these little nodes show up now these nodes will actually show you how you're wanting to align this now if I click on this middle one right here it will move everything to this center line or I can click on the top one or the bottom one and the nice thing about tinkercad is when you hover over it it will show you where it's going to go so if it's to the top right there so now that we have everything aligned in the center what if I wanted to align them vertically when you change your angles different aligns will show up so we can actually align them all to the middle right here so when you have multiple objects selected you can just look to see which one you want to align it to so do I want them all aligned to this Edge and you can see how they'll all move to that edge or this Edge let's say we want to align them all to the bottom so now they're all on the same plane the other great thing about the Align tool is once you've got all of these selected and you're in the Align tool mode you can click on a specific object so let's say that this object right here I want everything to be aligned to the top of this object so if I click on this everything is going to move down now and even the same thing if I click on this and click on the bottom here everything will be aligned to the bottom of this smaller box so your align tool is a very powerful tool so a good example is if I have a cylinder right here let's say I'm going to have a long cylinder and I want to point on the top so I would just grab my work plane put that there then I would drag this right on top of it then change my work plane back now if I want to align this perfectly I could do it this way and I could try to eyeball it but is it going to be perfect I don't know so all I would have to do is Select both of them click on the Align and I could center it so if we go to a very top View Center it this way Center it this way now that is perfect it's a perfect looking pencil your align is great I use the Align for almost every single project that I am working on so definitely mess around with your align tool and get comfortable with it because it's one of those tools that you're going to use all the time so that's everything you need to know about the Align tool in tinkercad now be sure to head over and watch the full project video so you can see how this tool and all of the others work together in tinkercad thanks a lot for watching and I hope you have a great day and I'll see you in this video right here

Channel: ItsMeaDMaDe

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Id: uviljfyqlZ4

Length: 4min 12sec (252 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 02 2023