TinkerCAD - Lesson 2

TinkerCAD - continued 

TinkerCAD Lesson 1: Learning the moves 

To create this shape I had to: 

1. Drag the light brown construction on top of the orange outline construction  

2. It had to be as accurate as possible

The skill I learnt in this lesson was to move shapes along the workplane. It was really easy because it actually just had one step since it was lesson one and there were no hard parts, but it was really good for lesson one. As well it did actually help you to practice your accuracy, and I must admit my hand was kind of shaking when I was dragging the shape. 

TinkerCAD Lesson 2: Camera controls result

To create this shape I had to: 

1. Use the corners on the top left corner to move around; left, right, up, down to see who was actually behind the corner. 

2. Then I used the zoom '+'and '-' buttons to zoom into the picture. 

3. You can also use the scroll on the mouse, to zoom into the picture

The skill I learnt in this lesson was to look around the picture, using the zoom and the corners. It was a little bit confusing in the start because you didn't know which zoom button or arrow to click and sometimes it didn't take you where you wanted it to. But then I got the hang of it and I now know how to look around the shape. 

TinkerCAD Lesson 3: Creating Holes Result

To create this shape I had to:

1. Drag the brown hexagonal prism shape on the area outlined in orange

2. Then I clicked on the Hole feature and chose a cylinder hole

3. I placed the cylinder hole on the other side of the key

4. After that I grouped all three shapes together by pressing shift and clicking the hexagonal prism shape and the cylinder hole; I then clicked the 'group'option which made them group and stick together 

The skill learnt in this lesson was to group shapes together using the group option and by pressing shift. As well I got a chance to also look at the different shapes that are available to use when I'm going to create real objects. This lesson was a bit tricky because I didn't really understand what to do and I'm not sure if I actually did the shape correct but in the end I did learn something. 

TinkerCAD Lesson 4: Scale , Copy and Paste Result

To create this shape I had to:

1. Find the orange cylinder in the shape list 

2. Drag it on the area outlined in orange 

3. Repeat the process, and drag the shape on the area outlined in orange next to the first cylinder  

4. Then using the white dot below the arrow, scale the orange cylinder on the right to a height of 15 mm

5. Then drag another cylinder next to the first cylinder you placed (on the left)

6. Again, using the white dot below of the arrow, scale that cylinder to a height of 15 mm

The skill I learnt in this lesson was how to drag, scale, copy and paste shapes on the workplane. Even though I didn't use it when I was creating the shape because I found the shape immediately, throughout the lesson it told you how to copy and paste a shape. To copy and paste you have to select the shape you want to copy and press the Ctrl+C from your keyboard, after that press Ctrl+V to paste the shape.