Compound 3D shapes

Design and technology

Sustainable housing

The TinkerCAD user interface

Modify 3D shapes

Complex 3D shapes

Manipulating 3D shapes

Critique 3D eco-houses

Exploded diagrams in CAD

This unit introduces 3D Computer Aided Design to pupils.  They will investigate modern architects to understand the techniques and materials they use in sustainable housing.  They will develop knowledge of TinkerCAD to design and present a model sustainable house.

CAD structures: architecture

A shape made by combining two or more simple shapes

Joins selected shapes into one compound shape

In Tinkercad, what does the "Group" function do?

If you want to make a hole in a solid shape in Tinkercad, what should you do?

Which Tinkercad tool would you use to separate compound shapes?

Which of the following best describes the use of Tinkercad?

What is the main purpose of the ViewCube in Tinkercad?

What does "translating" a shape mean in 3D design?

If you scale a shape in Tinkercad, what are you doing?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Compound 3D shapes

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.