Make: The Complete Guide to Tinkercad

Example 9: Reduce an STL File

Have you found a great file on Thingiverse or elsewhere that you’d like

to import into Tinkercad to customize it, but it has too many polygons to

import? Import it into Fusion’s Mesh workspace first, reduce the polygon

count, export as an STL, and bring it into Tinkercad. Figure

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shows a

Thingiverse model that we’ll use.

Search online for “shark popcorn bowl thingiverse” or find it directly at www.

thingiverse.com/thing:6423111. Download it and then, in Fusion, click File/

Upload, navigate to the STL file and drag it into the upload box (Figure

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).

Click on the Mesh tab at the top of the screen to enter the Mesh ...