TinkerCAD- 6 basic skills

Skill 1- Learning the moves

This tutorial taught us how to move the shapes around. It was very easy as all you had to do was click and drag with your mouse.

Skill 2 - Camera Controls

This tutorial taught us how to change the view point of our model and how to zoom in/out. You can change the view point by either clicking control and moving your mouse around or by clicking on different sides of the cube in the top left hand corner of the screen. Zooming is accomplished by either the zoom buttons of the left side of the screen or by how you would normally zoom on your computer track pad. 

Skill 3 - creating Holes

This tutorial taught us how to remove material from an object. Firstly, you can choose what shape you would like your hole to take from the right hand panel of shapes. You then need to drag the shape on to where you would like your hole to be and click on 'Hole' in the inspector window. From there, you need to group the objects by selecting both of them and clicking on 'Group' at the top of the window. You will now have a hole in your object!

Skill 4 - Scale, copy and paste

In this tutorial we learned how to change the scale of the shape and how to copy and past objects. Copying and pasting is done how you would typically copy and paste (command-c for copy and command-v for paste). To change the scale of an object you simply click on the object and move the white dots to the dimensions you desire.

Skill 5- Creating Custom designs

This tutorial taught us how to bring multiple objects together. To make it easier to position the objects correctly, you can change the snap grid from 1mm to 0.25mm by clicking on this option on the bottom right of the screen. We also used our previously learnt skills of resizing and grouping to complete the key chain and make it a single object.

Skill 6- The Workplane

This tutorial taught us how to use the work plane. To access the workplane you simply click on the workplane on the right side of the screen and drag it to where you want on the grid. To reset the workplane, simply drag it to a blank spot off the grid.