3D Printing Projects: Further Utilising AR/VR and Tinkercad

 

We have spent the last week of school looking at a range of options to produce the furniture series for our students related to the 2025 Dolls House Project.

In yesterdays post we explored how students were using Tinkercad with more originality and detail to customise the furniture that it going to fill the house.

These designs are the next step in that process.  Each of the designs has been created by the seven and eight year old students using Tinkercad and then the design has been AR/VR into the Dolls House so we can see it before it is printed in its final state.

This has a number of affects on the project.  Firstly it allows students to see their design before it is printed, for the students to look at balance and form and to have an idea what their creation might need to have adjustments with.

Secondly the volume of work coming from the students means the practicality of printing all of the designs (which are typically four hours or so) allows them to finish the project rather than wait for the printing - we have previously identified that sometimes Tinkercad can be used to create a project that does not mean that the project at the end of the process can require, or is indeed suitable for printing.

Throughout the process we wanted to scale designs for the students in a simple way - hence the repeated featuring on of the plastic figure.   

The students require an iPad to complete the task as the Tinkercad App with an updated version has a AR/VR option built into its main options screen.

We still want to continue to refine the designs next term as they are pleasing but in some cases could clearly benefit from some placement and details to show exactly where they could go.