TinkerCad Tip - Shape Generator The Circular Array!

[Music] welcome to this episode of DIY 3d techcom in this episode we're going to take a look at the shape generators inside of Tinkercad and we're gonna take a look at one in particular so the way you get there is you go up here and select the basic shapes or the pulldown right here next to it and then we're going to do is we're going to go down to all Shave generators and then we're gonna scroll down you notice there's quite a few of them but we're looking for one in particular and that one is the circle array and so what we're going to do is we're gonna pull the circle array on to the workplane and we're gonna drop it now one of the things that you notice is that it's has a number of objects rotated around basically a circle in this case it's a square so let's go ahead and take a look at what we can do with this so the first thing we would go over here to its control panel we see that we have squares circles triangles or custom profile and so I'm going to change it to circles and notice these are turned two cylinders now for custom profiles you can actually use this working plane here to actually change the shape of these objects into irregular shapes so I'm not going to go into that in this episode for just know that's what this is for now what I'm going to do is to show you another aspect of this I'm going to turn these into triangles because we also have direction now or cylinder it really doesn't matter but for something like a triangle currently right now we're pointing inside so what that means are these points are pointing inside we can change it to point outside and see how they've changed and then we can also change them to point south so they point downward for this case I'm just going to turn this back to a circle and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to give it a point inside which is that going to make a big difference also once we drop down here a number of copies so as you see as I increase the copies the number of cylinders on my working plane increase I'm gonna actually go ahead and I'm going to just type in six here so I want six cylinders now the other thing we can do is we can change the angle at which we place these six cylinders so we can do a half circle or a full circle we're gonna leave this at a full circle the other pieces we can change the diameter of these from you know down to almost nothing to extremely large and then the other piece well I'm gonna go back here sorry I'm gonna change this to back to ten millimeters just for the grins and giggles the other thing we can do is change the radius is how far these are spread outward now notice the size of this so the this the radius is the internal radius and so one thing you have to watch here is how you know big your objects gonna get so this this I'm not sure how the exact ratio works because notice I'm at 65 and notice it's at 140 so it pushes out so again I would measure this based upon the size you wanted so in this case what I want to do is I want to create roughly 100 millimeter ring so now you notice that I'm at 68 and seven in 77 and that's because notice how this is okay cubed off where these are bumped out further with these are bit in so anyway it's just something to keep in mind when doing it so I'm going to go ahead and turn these into holes and I'm gonna be good with that for the time being so now I have this round space set of cylinders that I can work with and now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go back up here to my basic shapes and scroll up and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pull a cylinder out and it's mentioned I'm gonna want to go I'm gonna actually make this about 85 by 85 is for grins and giggles and pull this over so that should be pretty good I want to have some smooth sides on it so I'm gonna kick this up and I'm gonna lower this down to 5 millimeters because I don't need to be that tall and that looks pretty good so now what I'm going to also do is I'm going to bring in another cylinder and I'm gonna make this 45 45 and then I'm gonna make this about Oh 60 tall and then I'm gonna move this over here again I want to kick up my sides from 20 to 64 and now I'm gonna bring in a hole and I'm gonna make this 40 and make this one 40 and I'm gonna make this 80 tall and I want smooth side so I'm gonna kick this out and I'm gonna push this over here and I'm gonna pull this down just a little bit and so I'm gonna highlight all this and we'll go to my favorite tool whoops a line and so I'm just gonna line all these components with this line I'm gonna select this and then now I'm gonna join this and boom I now have a flange quick design really slick now if you try to go ahead and put these holes on here yourself that would be a lot of work a lot of math and you see how the shape generator has shortened all that effort for me so this is a real handy tool for creating flanges and other things like this we you need a certain set of holes around a circular object so anyways hopefully you found this interesting and found it handy and you're Tinkercad workflows if you did hey give it a big thumbs up also don't forget the swag shop up there in the corner let me know in the comments what your favorite shape generator is below I'd be interested to hear I'm gonna probably do some videos on writing code for shape generators this is done in JavaScript and so I'll probably do a set of videos later let me know down below - if you'd be interested in seeing those see what kind of interest there are getting into a little bit of the coding of tinker kit and hey we'll see you guys in the next video Cheers [Music]

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Id: yiH93u7W2yo

Length: 6min 36sec (396 seconds)

Published: Fri May 18 2018