Ten Tinkercad Tips and Tricks in Ten Minutes

hello and welcome back today i'm giving you 10 quick tips and tricks to help you out with using tinkercad some of these are things i wish i had known from the beginning and some of these i literally just learned i'm constantly learning new things with the more advanced and in-depth designs that i'm making and learning how to make the steps easier to accomplish what i'm designing and it always makes for a better experience in the long run for example simply aligning things when i first started using tinkercad i would align by eye which while it can be done it is time consuming and time is precious then i learned that there is an alignment tool that takes care of that for you anyway without further ado let's get into it [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so the first thing we're gonna do is go over all these buttons never being one to read the manual i skipped over these and wasted a lot of time because of it okay so starting from left to right we have our copy and paste buttons duplicate and repeat trash and finally the back and forward step arrows and if we move over here on the right side we have notes visibility show all group and ungroup the alignment tool and the mirror tool so a quick rundown of what these buttons do the copy and paste is pretty self-explanatory but did you know you can open one of your other projects click an item in there and copy it then go back to your current project and paste it moving on to the duplicate and repeat tool this is very handy if you're making a repeated pattern as long as you don't click off of what you want to duplicate you can repeat the pattern as much as you want until you come up with a design that you like and if you don't like the design you've just made our next button comes in really handy the trash can wait a minute maybe you're being too hard on yourself and you do like that design after all thankfully the next button is an undo button well looking at it again uh yeah it's trash so let's click that redo button next on the right side we have our notes visibility button which unless you have a terrible memory or are sharing your design with someone else you won't be using this too much but you can add a note by clicking and dragging this notes button to your design and typing whatever you want and you can hide it with the visibility button or click the trash can and delete it all together next up is our show all button if you click an object and select the hide button within its parameters you can show it again easily with the click of this button then we have our group and ungroup buttons which are pretty self-explanatory next we have our alignment tool for keeping these pesky little objects in line with a couple clicks of the mouse and finally we have our mirror tool for easily flipping your design from one direction to the other if you find yourself working on the side of an object for example let's say we want to put a word on the side of this cube we can grab our text and flip it upright and resize it and then move it over to our cube and after a handful of clicks we can achieve what we want but a quicker way to do that would be to grab the work plane and place it on the side of the cube that we want our text on and then we can simply resize our text and we're done this is an easy one to overlook yet easy to figure out if you just take a minute to figure out the object rotation arrows and how they work this took me forever to figure out because i would just grab and go but if you click and hold and stay within this circle you will snap to an angle but if you move outside of this circle you can fine tune your angle ah that's nice huh okay first off if we hold the shift key and grab one of these measurement blocks and we pull it in one way or the other our object will resize automatically on all sides you can also let go of the mouse button and type a size and all sides will go up or down the same amount you've changed it to another thing we can do while holding the shift key is moving a straight line either left or right or up and down like a plus sign on the x or y axis now if you want to fine tune your movements you can click an object and use your arrow keys to move it around maybe you've got a wandering mouse hand dependent on what your snap grid is set to by default it is one millimeter so one click of the arrow key is one millimeter moved up down left or right okay this is something i've recently learned and i don't know why this works this way but for whatever reason in tinkercad it just does so let's say you're trying to make a rectangle with rounded corners let's start by grabbing a box and make it 100 millimeters by 50 millimeters if we grab our radius slider and the shape parameters and turn it up the corners don't round very well you can see kind of flat and goofy looking if this were a square and not a rectangle it wouldn't look this bad one easy way i've figured out how to get around this is by using the shape parameters to set the size instead of resizing with the boxes around the object so if we change this block to 100 millimeters by 50 millimeters on the sliders and then turn the radius up we have what i was wanting in the first place a rectangle with rounded corners again i'm not sure why this is like this but it's just one of those caveats of using tinkercad also while we're in the shape parameters are you finding that your holes aren't quite circular are they looking like more of an icosagon grab that slider that says sides and turn it all the way up and voila a hexaconta tetragon [Music] alright so over here in the shape pane on the right if we click this drop down menu we have a ton of different libraries full of shapes there's a ton of different shapes in here so i suggest going through this and checking out as much as possible you can use them to create something great or you might find some inspiration for designing something of your own [Music] while we're on the shapes pane let's take a look at the featured selection from here we can grab any shape and drop it on the canvas as usual but in the parameters we have something that looks a little different you can see the shape with all these circles and squares surrounding it we can use those circles and squares to make our own shape as you can see after just a few clicks this kind of looks like a guitar pick and we can still edit the object the same way we would any other but this is just a fun little way to make custom shapes or organic shapes as some call them often long before i jump into tinkercad i jot down ideas and shapes of what i want to design i'm clearly not a good artist by any means but it's good enough starting point you can also get all your measurements written down and have them at the ready for when you are building your design and tinkercad it just saves time in the overall building process now for those who have watched my past videos you've seen how i make these simple countersink holes for screws using two different size cylinders but there is another way that i don't often use it makes more of the traditional countersink hole that you're all familiar with so to do that we're going to first grab a cylinder turn the sides all the way up and let's just make this six millimeters next we're going to grab the cone shape turn those sides all the way up as well and then let's flip it over let's give this a 12 millimeter radius and shrink the height down a little bit now if we align it to the center of our cylinder and turn this into a hole and group those what we have is your traditional countersink shape and we can use that instead of the double cylinder trick that i often use [Music] now the last thing i'm going to leave you with is this if we go to the main page after you log into tinkercad and we click on the learn link up here on the top right we're presented with a page titled learn how to tinker in here you'll find a lot about how to use tinkercad they have starters lessons and projects you can create with step-by-step guides that will get you started on creating your own designs i highly highly suggest checking these out i actually skipped over these as i said i'm not usually one to read the manual it's just my nature but i suggest if you're just not getting it you know any other way try these out if i'd have just taken the time to go through these i'd have figured out a lot of this stuff a lot sooner all right and that's all i've got for today if you liked the video give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already consider subscribing to all my old and new subscribers i appreciate you tuning in catch you in the next one and as always have the best day ever [Music] is one millimeter moved up is one millimeter moved is one millimeter moved up you can use them to create you can use them to create something great or you might find some inspiration and you can use them for something damn it this is very handy if you're making a room

Channel: Avel

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Keywords: creality, tinkercad, designing, how to, help

Id: aB06DaYnuhU

Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021