AUTODESK Tinkercad 3D Designing Learning Tool User Guide

: June 13, 2024
: AUTODESK

Table of Contents

Thank you from Autodesk
What is new in Tinkercad?
Tinkercad 3D Design
Tinkercad Circuits
Tinkercad Codeblocks
Tinkercad Classrooms
Tinkercad to Fusion 360
Tinkercad keyboard shortcuts
Tinkercad Resources
Let’s stay connected
References
Read User Manual Online (PDF format)
Download This Manual (PDF format)

**AUTODESK Tinkercad 3D Designing Learning Tool

Thank you from Autodesk

From all of us at Autodesk, thank you for teaching and inspiring the next generation of designers and makers. Going beyond the software, our goal is to provide you with all of the resources and partners to help you engage with your students. From learning and certifi cations to professional development to classroom project ideas, we have what you need.

Autodesk Tinkercad is a free (for everyone) web-based tool for learning 3D design electronics and coding, trusted by 50 million teachers and students around the world. Learning design with Tinkercad helps to build essential STEM skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity.

Tinkercad’s friendly and easy to learn tools provide rapid and repeatable successes, making it fun and rewarding for learners of all ages to bring their ideas to life!
Help to your students develop a sense of curiosity and a passion for STEM- related fi elds and inspire your students on their path to future careers as designers.
We have lesson plans and support for teachers to feel confi dent teaching design. Be the facilitator and watch your students become the experts!

Sign up is easy using popular services like Google.
Alternately, add students without requiring personal information using only nicknames and a shared link.

Design in Tinkercad begins with simple shapes and components. Level up quickly with our library of starter projects and tutorials and check out the community gallery for endless ideas to remix.

What’s new in Tinkercad?
Learn more about the newest functionalities in Tinkercad
Tinkercad 3D Design
From product models to printable parts, 3D design is the fi rst step in making your ideas real
Tinkercad Circuits
From blinking your fi rst LED to reimagining the thermometer, we’ll show you the ropes, buttons, and breadboards of electronics
Tinkercad Codeblocks
Write programs that bring your designs to life. Block-based code makes it easy to create dynamic, parametric, and adaptive designs
Tinkercad Classrooms
Send and receive assignments, monitor student progress, and assign new activities all in Tinkercad Classrooms
Tinkercad to Fusion 360
Level up your Tinkercad designs with Fusion 360
Tinkercad Keyboard Shortcuts
Use these handy shortcuts below to speed up your Tinkercad 3D workfl ow
Tinkercad Resources
We’ve gathered a wealth of Tinkercad wisdom all in one place to help get you started

What is new in Tinkercad?

Sim Lab
Put your designs in motion in our new physics workspace. Simulate the effects of gravity, collisions, and realistic materials.

Cruising
Easily drag, stack, and assemble shapes dynamically in the 3D editor.

Codeblocks
Refreshed with powerful new blocks for improved object templating, conditionals statements, and programming colors.

Tinkercad 3D Design

Elevate your 2D designs
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If you can dream it, you can build it. From product models to printable parts, 3D Design is the fi rst step in making big ideas real.

Combine and cut out with a vast shape library to make your ideas real. A simple interface allows you to focus on creating your vision and less on learning the tools.

Arrays and Patterns

Use Duplicate one after another to create repeating shape patterns and arrays. Mirror objects to create symmetry.

Simulate

Visualize your design in action by clicking into the new Sim Lab workspace, or enter the AR viewer on the free iPad app.

Custom Shapes

Create your own set of draggable shapes you frequently use in the “My Creations” section of the Shapes Panel.

Tinkercad Circuits

Power up your creation
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From blinking your fi rst LED to building autonomous robots, we’ll show you the ropes, buttons, and breadboards of electronics.

Place and wire electronic components (even a lemon) to create a virtual circuit from scratch or use our starter circuits to explore and try things out.

Learning with Arduino or micro:bit? Build behaviors using easy to follow blocks-based coding, or switch to text and create with code.

Getting started

We have a large collection of premade virtual electronic components you can try out in the Starters library. Modify with Codeblocks or text-based code for your own circuit behaviors.

Schematic view

Generate and view a schematic layout of your designed circuit as an alternative view of how it works.

Simulation

Simulate how components respond virtually before wiring your real-life circuits.

Tinkercad Codeblocks

Tinkercad Codeblocks
Build a coding foundation
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Write programs that bring your designs to life. Familiar
Scratch based block coding makes it easy to create dynamic, parametric, and adaptive 3D designs.

Drag and drop from a library of blocks. Snap them together to form a stack of actions that can be run and visualized in an animated simulation.

Create and control variables for object properties to experiment with endless variations of your code. Run, stack, repeat for instant feedback.

Conditionals + Booleans

Conditional blocks combined with the boolean blocks will add logic to the designs your code builds.

Color Control
Tinkercad Codeblocks
Use the “Set Color” blocks to control color variables within a loop to create colorful creations with code.

New Template
Tinkercad Codeblocks
Defi ne objects with the new “Templates” blocks, and add them only where you need them with the companion “Create from Template” block.

Tinkercad Classrooms

Accelerate learning with Tinkercad
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Lesson Plans
Tinkercad Lesson Plans span all subjects and adhere to ISTE, Common Core, and NGSS standards.

Tutorials
Tinkercad tutorials from the Learning Center can now be added to a Class Activity for in-app learning.

Safe Mode
Default “On” for each Class, Safe Mode cuts down on Gallery distractions and limits students from sharing publicly.

Tinkercad to Fusion 360

Tinkercad to Fusion 360
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Fusion 360 is a cloud-based 3D modeling, manufacturing, simulation and electronics design software platform for professional product design and manufacturing.
It provides full control over aesthetics, form, fi t and function.

Fusion 360 is the perfect next step for Tinkercad users that start fi nding limitations to make their ideas real.
When you’re ready to design and make like the pros,

Fusion 360 will let you:

Gain full control of all shapes
Enhance the quality of your 3D prints
Assemble and animate your models
Bring designs to life with realistic images

Take your design to the next level
Get started and download Fusion 360 today. Educators and students can get Fusion 360 for free by creating an Autodesk account and verifying eligibility.