hi, still new at tinkercad, I was wondering if it was possible for me to add shapes to tinkercad. I noticed in tinkercad on the right side of the screen above the shape generator, there is something called Community and seems to have shapes done by others. Any help appreciated. thanks.
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Permanently deleted user Hi Trudy,
Those shapes are called Shape Generators and are created based on JavaScript. They require some programming skills. We are lucky to have an active community that constantly creates new shapes.
If you ever want to get into the fascinating world of programming, under My Shape Generators we have a series of templates that will show you how some shapes are done.
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Cleared Ok. I understand. thanks. Maybe in the future Tinkercad will add more shapes or more shapes like the Extrusion ones.
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Permanently deleted user Hi Trudy
Extrusion Generators are probably the easiest ones to create. Starting with the template that Tinkercad provides, you just need to replace their circle.svg file with one of the shape you want to use.
For example, I just created this one using a star polygon, which is a resized version of the one from this page.
SVG files are simple xml text files. Here's the entire code for the circle.svg used in the Tinkercad template:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<circle cx="0" cy="0" r="10" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" fill="red"/>
</svg>Apps like Illustrator and Inkscape can be used to create svg files, or an online converter like this one can create one from a bitmap.
So anyway, if you want to give it a try, it's not difficult, and we're here to help :)
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Cleared To convert a file to SVG, I like https://convertio.co
It's simple, works online and looks pretty, just like Tinkercad!
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