How to Make a City in Tinkercad and 3D Print It

Hello! In this instructable , I will be teaching you how to make a customizeable city in Tinkercad and 3D print it!

( note that the finished model will either be smaller than your hand or however large you wish to print it)

Free Tinkercad account

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Accessible 3D printer and fillament color of your choice

Hi! This is a quick minitutorial on how to use tinkercad! Remember, this is OPTIONAL , so you don't have to do this. I would recommend doing this if it's your first time using tinkercad. Let's get started!

When you click on a shape, you can stretch or enlarge your shape to many different sizes. You can rotate it with the arrows postitioned in a semicircle when you click it .

To get different shapes, use the shapes library when you click the "basic shapes" row

Scrolling down will give you more options

To put something somewhere, drag it to where ever you want

To raise something to a certain height, use the cone on top and drag it to your desired height

To color something, click the solid option and then you can color something

To export the model, click export and then you can export as .obj,.stl, and .glb for 3D printing and you can export as .sfg for lasercutting . To export straight to your 3D printer, you can click "3D print" and it will have a list of printer brands that you can export to . To export as a schematic for Minecraft, you can do that by clicking the pickaxe icon and click export there

If you want to see an example, go to this link and see my city in whole , copy /paste this link https://www.tinkercad.com/things/aibXFUmiqNV-city-block

Using cubes, make the base of your city. Make roads and leave space for parking lots and things like that.

Also, make the outlines of your buildings and leave it like that. You can copy and paste shapes to make it easier.

Make your buildings to whatever size you please. Be sure to make them scaled to whatever else you put in so it looks good. Make your road to be level to a height that you're comfortable with what you've made. Add lines to divide the road if you wish. If it's glitching, don't be worried , it's perfectly normal for that to happen

Use round roofs, tires , and cubes, make whatever vehicles you want and place them onto the road. Be sure not to leave them floating or else they won't print well

Add A/C units, logos, fans, and other details to make your buildings look nice from the top. Don't just have 1 thing, make many!

Put whatever you like in the empty spaces . Ideas could be; Bus stops, lampposts, phone booths, but if you run out of ideas, just stuff tons of trees in there . :) Feel free to modify my design and add many different ideas in. The sky's the limit with this one!

Load your model onto your 3D printer and print it out. I used a Makergear M2 printer with gold fillament but you can use any color you like on any 3D printer . Your finished product should look something like the image shown . Happy Printing!