March 2018
Beginner
264 pages
5h 26m
English
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Chapter 3
Taking a Tour of Tinkercad
IN THIS CHAPTER
Viewing designs
Changing options and settings
Working with Tinkercad
Discovering how to use Tinkercad Help to answer your technical questions
Entering the Tinkercad community
In this chapter, you take a tour of the Tinkercad screens. You find out how to view your recent designs and tinker with Tinkercad. You discover how to use the Help screens to access the amazing knowledge base that is incorporated into Tinkercad. You also explore the Tinkercad community by visiting the Tinkercad Gallery and blog.
Viewing Recent Designs
Tinkercad provides great visual tools so that you can easily view and open your recent designs.
When you log in, your Tinkercad profile is on the left side of the screen (see Figure 3-1). Just to the right of your profile you see your recent designs. In the following example, my existing Tinkercad design is called Shaun’s Nameplate. All your recent designs have a little preview box. If you move your mouse over it, ...
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