In order to devote almost all of our face-to-face workshop time to hands on exercises, please watch the videos below, setup a TinkerCad.com account, and then complete the quiz at the end. The quiz is to help you know if you’re prepared to attend the workshop. If you don’t do well on the quiz, you might watch to watch the videos again, or Google some of the ideas and/or skills that you’re not as familiar with.
- Setup an account at http://tinkercad.com.
- Introduction to TinkerCad (just watch, don’t try to follow along) (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwjWT-EvKSU
- How to move around in TinkerCad (try this in TinkerCad) (1 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa37nrj0pH0
- Move objects & change the grid (try this in TinkerCad) (2 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prpjk8dgf9I
- Resize and Rotate objects (try this in TinkerCad) (4 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-bGROLcrMg
- Copy, Paste, and Group (try this in TinkerCad) (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjP0c7rLSU
- Repeating patterns (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYiMMxOt3A
- Hole and Subtraction (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPSmvYUvob0
- Radius and Fillet (2 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw7Lgttc-iE
- Align and Flip (2 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnvNXCh-mw
- Export object to STL file for 3D printing (1 min) – https://goo.gl/ko9zOr
- Please complete the following quiz so that you can get a feel for how prepared you are for the face-to-face orientation. The anonymous responses from this quiz will be stored on a server in the United States. If you are not comfortable with this, please print out the questions, answer them by hand, and bring them to orientation: https://goo.gl/forms/CCGJRdlV9uDVLI9F2
Congratulations you’re ready for the workshop!