Modify 3D shapes

Design and technology

Sustainable housing

The TinkerCAD user interface

Compound 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

Match the Tinkercad function to the definition.

If you make a mistake in Tinkercad, you can always {{}} an action.

When you click on a rotate handle in Tinkercad, what appears to help you rotate accurately?

Enlarging or shrinking a shape in Tinkercad is known as what?

What does it mean to translate an object?

change its size to make it bigger or smaller

When rotating an object, what unit is usually used to measure how far it turns?

How do you start a new design in Tinkercad?

the screen showing all the tools and workplane

a tool you can click to change the view of your design

Starter Quiz

What does it mean to rotate an object?