Make: The Complete Guide to Tinkercad

Project 4: Cut a Hole with

the Group Block

While designing, change numbers in the text fields to see how the design

is affected. Experiment! Drag and stack codeblocks in different orders to

see the result. While the Template block is needed for coding efficiency, you

don’t need it just to play around. Let’s drag some codeblocks directly into the

editor without inserting them into other blocks.

1. Drag the Heart block into the editor (Figure

6-41

). Note that it doesn’t

have fields for changing its size. Fix that by dragging the Scale block

under it. Type 2 in the text field to double its size (Figure

6-42

).

2. Drag the Cylinder block in and type ...