Tinkercad Tips and Tricks

This a collection of my favorite tinkercad features and a couple tricks I use.

I may add more soon

In tinkercad 2.0 and up there is a view cube you can rotate it to change view or click one of views on it to go there.

This is also in other autodesk software

This is very simple but very useful if you design image is not showing up

• Click share
• Click download

You can set it to cover

• Add photo
• Click choose file
• Choose file
• hover over image
• Click set as default image

This one is very simple but kind of cool

To switch view just click button under zoom out.

• Click work plane or press f8
• Click on surface

Useful for larger projects

• Click edit grid
• Choose your unit and dimension
• Click update grid

The ruler tool is very useful for viewing and editing dimension

• Click ruler
• Click where you want it
• Click object for dimensions

This is my personal favorite

• Click object
• Press control d or click duplicate
• Move and/or rotate
• Press control d or click duplicate to duplicate what you just did

Mirroring is also a cool feature. I don't use it a ton but still very neat

• Click object
• Click flip or m
• Click arrows to flip in that axis

Sometimes you may need to round edges. You can use the controls. However if you don't want the whole thing rounded you will need to make something.

My method

• Bring in cube
• Brink in cylinder
• Put maximum amount of sides on cylinder
• Switch to hole
• rotate square 45°
• move cylinder 75 percent into it
• align
• group
• switch to hole
• rotate -45°
• group with your object

You can also render a tinkercad design. see this instructable

If two or more slightly different shapes have a side merged with another you get your colors flashing

• Click shift while resizing an object to resize all dimensions
• Click f after selecting an object to focus on it

If you would like to know how to use tinkercad for dual color printing

Check this out Dual Color Printing