3D Design

I have never “tinkered” with Tinkercad before as our school does not currently have a 3D printer.  I have seen 3D printers and Tinkercad in action at other schools and in workshops, however, it was not as much fun as designing on my own!  I completed 7 very short, basic tutorials that taught me how to place, move, view, rotate, size, group and align one or more shapes.  I also completed a tutorial on “Introduction to Primitive Shapes”.  In that session, I learned how to identify and combine primitive shapes to create basic designs.  In my final tutorial, called “Build a Tinkercad House”, I learned to use ‘boolean operations’, which is the action of combining and/or modifying 2 or more primitive shapes.  I have posted my completed house below.

I would love to offer my students the same opportunity that I had today of exploring, learning, creating and ‘tinkering’ with 3D design.  I would also love to have a 3D printer in my school so that students could take their designs to completion by printing and sharing their projects.  What a wonderful learning opportunity!