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Saturday, July 11, 2020

How to make a digital I.D Tag on "Tinkercad"

Hello everyone after finishing my real I.D tag we were told to make a digital version on https://www.tinkercad.com/.

After we learned how to do everything because Mr. Rees showed us how to do some of the stuff. We needed to do it by ourselves and then record with Screencastify. Or any other way to show how we made our digital I.D tag.

If you want to just watch the video click here - 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16lwbSKJ1tFC9sx7z7a1aLwrm7NWIjuqJ/view




Here is the method with just using pictures.

Step 1:
Go to the https://www.tinkercad.com/ and this photo shows what the front page should look like.




Step 2:
If you are just starting you need to click "join now" if you have already tried to sign in a while ago click "sign-in"




Step 3:
If you had just joined you need to create your own personal account. Once you click "Create a personal account". You have to follow the procedures that it tells you to do. It's not that hard just a bit of typing and clicking.




Step 4:
Once you have finished creating an account this page will show up after a few seconds of loading. It will not be like this photo because you probably have made no design yet so it will be empty. Now you have to click "Create new design"



Step 5: 
Once this page shows up.


On the side, you can see those 3D shapes what you need to do is click the box shape. Then drag it onto the grided platform.



Step 6:
When you put the cube on the platform this tab will be on the side click on the arrow so it can show you all the settings like this photo. In this photo, I had set everything to where it needs to be so just copy what's in the photo. 




You change the color by clicking on the circle that has the word solid under it, then this will show up. You can click any color but the preferred color is grey.



  

This is now what it should look like.




So now you should get the cylinder shape, (I already showed you where shapes are). When you get the cylinder on to the platform, make it hole and not solid.
Click on the cylinder then click on one of the corner squares. Change the number 20 into 5.


Then click the square that is at the top and also change the number to 5 like this.


The cylinder should now look like this.


After you have done you need to now place the cylinder around the top of your I.D tag. You can put it in the corner if you like but I put it in the middle, once you have done that it should look like this.



Now you need to scroll down on where shapes are and select the cone shape, drag it onto the platform. Now this bit will be a bit tricky so I will try to thoroughly explain it. 

So when you have the cone on the platform change it to hole so it's not solid, that means it would look like a holograph instead of a purple cone now. Once you have done that you need to rotate the cone so it's upside down. But before that, you need to change the size. By doing that you need to click the one of the white squares out of the four on the bottom. Click on the place where it says 20 and change it to 7 in each place it says 20. 



At the top of the cone, there is a small white square you need to click that and change the 20 to 5. 

At the top of the cone, there is a curved grey arrow and it should look like this.



What you need to do is click and hold that arrow, then you need to rotate it so it's upside down.

Now you need to drag to your I.D tag and put it where the circle is, so it would look like that you have a circle inside a bigger circle. 

It should now look like this. 


Now, this part is optional but you can add a name or initials, the way you do this is to go to the area where there are the shapes. Scroll down and select on text, you need to make it hollow. Then you can select what it says as an example "James". After that, you need to make sure the height is 3 and then angle your screen on its side view. Once you do that at top of the text there will be a triangle that will look like this. 


Click and hold it then drag it up so the top is lined up with the to of I.D tag her is a photo of what it should look like.


As you can see the text is kind of floating, now that it's like this you need to drag it to where you want on the I.D tag. So now it should look like this but with your initials.


Now here is the last thing you need to do which is to highlight your whole project and make it one piece. To do this you need to just follow this diagram I had made.


In your top right corner, there are these icons.


Click on this icon.


Click on it then your final product should look like this.










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