iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

If you’re familiar with the 3D designing, it’s unlikely that you are not familiar with Tinkercad. Tinkercad is a user-friendly design platform that allows even the most basic beginners to construct a 3D-printable model. See our Easy Tinkercad Tutorial for Beginners article for a step by step walk-through of how to start Tinkering.

Additionally, Tinkercad offers a plethora of learning material and educational videos. Under the Learn tab on tinkercad.com to get you started on becoming a modeling expert.

Already a seasoned modeler? Tinkercad is not only for beginners. Tinkercad allows you to upload your model to share designs around the world. This also means you can copy a model that has been uploaded by another user and “Tinker” it yourself. Here we present some insanely cool things that have been modeled on Tinkercad.

In this Tinkercad tutorial for beginners, we will show you in just five easy steps how to create 3D models in Tinkercad. You can do it!

I’m serving as a “Minecraft Consultant” to our 6th grade Social Studies teacher (Sara Zedlitz) and middle school librarian (Michaela Freeland) who are collaborating for a second year on an awesome 3D design and 3D printing project that is part of a study on ancient Rome and Roman structures. Yesterday I helped students who had designed their 3D structures in Tinkercad export their files as “schematics” for Minecraft. Today I used MCEdit to import those objects into a flat Minecraft world and add some modifications to them, including lighting and water in the aqueduct. In this post I’ll highlight the key steps of this process and share both a Google Doc how-to document as well as a 5 minute screencast I recorded of my initial import efforts.