How to Use TinkerCAD to Make a Pen Holder

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How to Use TinkerCAD to Make a Pen Holder

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This article tells you how to use TinkerCAD(https://tinkercad.com/) with Makerbot to make a "REAL" pen holder, you can see the amazing 3d printed pen holder as the attached picture. You can also see the video from here. http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XNjIwNTIyMTky/v.swf 

 

Open Tinkercad

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Launch Chrome with Tinkercad(https://tinkercad.com) and click "Create new design" button

Drag the Box and Shape Scripts to Canvas

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Drag a box from “Geometric” to canvas, drag the module “Voronoi” from “Community Shape Scripts” to canvas.(You can edit the parameters of the shape script module to what you want)

Copy & Paste the Modules

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Use Ctrl C/Ctrl V to copy paste lots of modules(For any shape scripts, you can change the properties to make them different)

Set Shape Scripts Modules As Hole

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Set the shape scripts as “Hole”

Group the Box and Hole

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Group the shape script and the box together to get the sides of the pen holder

Make the Sides and Box Together

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Rotate and move to make the sides and box together

Get the Final Model Pen Holder

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You will get the final pen holder

3d Print the Real Model

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Send this module to Makerbot and print it, you will get the real 3d pen holder