3D CAD Design - Festive Images of Tinkercad Designs 2.0

 

In the run up to Christmas and the end of the 2025 School Year we were setting weekly and daily challenges for our students involving the use of Tinkercad to create a series of designs.

Some of these were 3D Printed projects and increasingly some of these remained virtual designs or images that we have been printing by having the students creating a virtual image - which is then projected using the Tinkercad App, and specifically the AR/VR function, the students iPad and saved as a picture file.    This allows the entire class to complete the task.

We already published some early examples of one of the tasks - which was to make a literal creation of a festive song by creating its 'virtual' interpretation of the title or line from a song.  This was easily created by the students and then led to much explanation and refinement.  For instance the design shown top left was created by a student to show 'Jingle Bells'.    The student also used the motion option on the Tinkercad App which we have used previously to test the viability of the prints to make bells move or jingle.

The example shown left was along a similar theme but was 'Rocking Around the Christmas Tree'.   Although its not particularly clear there are rocks placed around the outside of the design to lead towards the identification of the lyric and the song - although the student could have perhaps increased the size of the rocks so they stood out more clearly.

The student then took this design to the next step where the entire image was projected onto the floor of the classroom, the carpet being shown as the background.  The next step of course was then to place this image into a festive filter.  We have extensively used the Pic Collage app to complete this however there are a number of apps that are able to manipulate and create virtual versions of images or shapes (in this case Tinkercad designs).   This is something that we will be focussing on and working with our students this year when the class returns.  If you would like some examples about other non 3D Printing tasks you can click on the link to our non-printing 3D printing slideshow here.