3D Print Keychain Name

In this project, you'll learn how to make a keychain by connecting letters together to make a solid object from 3D printing.

When you log into your TinkerCAD account, you can start creating your 3D design! Just hover and click with your cursor over the "Create new design" button, right under the "My recent designs" text.

When you get into the Workplane, you should be able to see all your different varieties of shapes. If not, there should be and button with an arrow on it to the right of your tab to bring up the shapes panel.

After seeing your shapes panel, you should be able to find the text shape and drag it into your Workplane.

Then click on the text shape and there should be an arrow at the top right beside the shapes panel to edit your text shape.

After getting your text shape into the Workplane, add your text letter by letter by copying and pasting (Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V) your text shapes. Repeat until you have your text.

Then when you get all of the letters you need, use your arrow keys to overlap the letters. Use the aline function to aline all your letters so they are straight along with each other.

Grab 2 cylinders (one regular and one hole cylinder) from the shapes panel and set the dimensions of your cylinders.

Aline the 2 cylinders (Hold shift and click on both cylinders) using the alinement function ("L" is the shortcut to using the alinement function).

After alining the cylinders group (Ctrl-G) both cylinders to create a hole through the orange cylinder.

Using all the objects you have made, put all your objects together and make sure you have the right dimensions.

When you are done, right above the shapes panel there should be an "Export" button. Click on it and click on ".stl" so you would be able to use your design on a 3D printer.