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General Questions

Kathy E

July 24, 2015 13:10

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First, let me say, I have had fun playing with Tinkercad.  I have figured most things out, but have a few questions, I hope someone can help me with.

1.  What is Snap Grid supposed to do?  When I follow the lessons, and change the settings, I don't see a difference.

2.  Why is when I try to look at my lessons from different angles, the shapes don't line up with the lesson outlines, on all angles?  When I enlarge the screen, to see better, sizes don't matches up.

3.  How can I better see the rotation arrows, especially when the shape is small.  The arrows, to move the shape from "flat" to standing" is very hard to find, to use.

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  Guillermo Melantoni July 24, 2015 13:41

  Hi Kathy. 

  When you move objects in Tinkercad, you will notice that they kind of get "sticky" at certain intervals. For example, every 5mm. You can change that value with Snap Grid. Let's say you want to move something every 1mm because you want to be more accurate, then you can do it by defining this new value in Snap Grid.

  I'm not sure I follow you on the second question. Can you explain more?

  You can orbit around a bit and you'll see the arrows better.

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  Kathy E July 24, 2015 19:07

  1.  Thanks, that makes more sense.  I will have to play with it now, and get a better understanding now that I know more of what I am looking at.

  2.  Here's what I mean:

   

  shouldn't the outline (placeholder) and the shape line up/fit together, no matter which angle you are viewing them from?

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  Guillermo Melantoni July 24, 2015 19:54

  ok. I see. What may happen is that in the first view, it seems to be ok but remember that you are trying to understand 3D within the limits of a 2D representation. So something might look ok, but there's a misalignment on the depth. This is why you always need to orbit to understand what you are doing (at some point it will be natural, but for some time, orbiting helps a lot).

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  Cat lovin' me November 19, 2015 20:04

  How do I get my creations in the gallery?

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  Guillermo Melantoni November 24, 2015 23:47

  Under the menu called Design, there's an option called Properties. This will open a window with some other options. One of them is to change something from Private into Public.