Simple Steps for Tinkercad Sweeping Text | Master Tinkercad in Minutes
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Check out these Simple Steps for Tinkercad Sweeping Text in this short tutorial. A user on Reddit asked if it was possible in Tinkercad. I think the text turned out pretty darn sweet.
Tinkercad is an amazing design tool that works in a web browser. Fun, fast, and full of tools that you can create with. This lesson is quick but covers some really useful skills.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge, very much appreciated. This is so awesome.
Glad you enjoyed it! Duplicate, nudge & rotate are so fun. We have a blast with this flower in class. czcams.com/video/ivOl3Go7cVg/video.html
On windows pc, make sure the sticky keys are on!
How does that help?
@@HLModTech My pc had sticky keys off. I was unable to execute the short cuts. After some frustration, I figured out the issue and now the short cuts 2o4k.
… work
That is interesting. I do not have them on and my shortcuts work fine. Either way, glad you got it solved! 💯👏
one year later you have helped yet anohter person. Thanks!
The perfect way to start my day UserName _. Thank you.
I've been looking to do this for table price plates. I have previously tried in Tinker but could not work it out. Just a simple keystroke I was missing. Fantastic tutorial. Subscribed. Many thanks :)
Awesome Aurious Blu! I appreciate the feedback and it makes my day to hear you were successful. 💯👍
Awesome explanation. Thank you for taking the time to teach this.
My pleasure Ryan Cooper. Thank you for the feedback! 👍💯
you're the man! thank you!
The perfect way to start my day @BoredLockpicker. Thank you. 💯🔥
in my case it was rotating from the center of the word not from the bottom of the word, any setting I should change?
That is a result of clicking somewhere and "cancelling" the saved nudges. It takes a little practice to get used to it, but you need to do the steps without clicking somewhere between the First and (many) Ctrl-D presses.
You made it look so easy and I almost had it but after I duplicated it made two shapes one floating and then when I angled it and duplicated again it didn’t make anymore. Then I couldn’t find the text shape to enter a new one again. I think tinkercad glitches out or something I can’t find it anywhere
It takes a bit of practice to get it right. If you ever click in the middle of the process it breaks it. This is me trying on a iPad and you can see how many attempts it took me... czcams.com/video/8C6BpZZwh20/video.html
Coming back to this again, great tutorial!
Thank you. I think I am going to mod this and use it with my resin printer. Thanks for the nudge. 👍
@@HLModTech Even when I don't group I am having a hard time exporting some designs. Tinkercad told me it was too complicated?
Exelent video! Lettssss goooooo
Makes my day to hear that! Thanks kennethias20 LL. 💯👍
Thank for this awesome tuto!
My pleasure Phi-Long TRAN. I had a lot of fun with that one too! 👍💯
I wasn't sure how well this would work, but it's giving me nice flashbacks of calculus rotating shapes around an axis! Nice potential in CodeBlocks I suppose
Good idea to try it in Codeblocks too. I believe it only has 1 font available.
Thank you very much 🤩
My pleasure Yasin Borlu. Thank you for the note! 👍💯
Thank you so much this help out
My pleasure Nightmare7. Thank you for the feedback! 👍💯
Thank you !!!!
My pleasure @moonshynesflorida3239. Thank you for the note! 👍💯
I'm trying this and my text don't sweep up it rotates from the center of the font
The nudges are the trick. Also making sure you do not click the mouse anywhere after the rotation. Essentially 3 nudges up, 1 nudge back rotate 3 degrees... then hit Ctrl+D again and again.
Good video, nice CZcamsr. Greetings from Germany
Thanks tons! Love it when the videos are useful world wide. I have fond memories of a few trips to Germany. 🍻
Thank you. I am finding impossible to get the angle at 3 as the immediate next step. Doing CLT D thereafter just raises. I am using a touchpad. Any suggestions? Thank you for sharing awesome knowledge with us!
It is tricky with a touch pad. Maybe the version I made of this for the iPad will be useful. czcams.com/video/8C6BpZZwh20/video.html
@@HLModTech Thank you! I will try with a mouse on laptop. Else, create an object and place text. Thank you again!
I'm trying to get mine to do it but when I do the Ctrl up to make it curve it just goes straight up. I was able to do it once but now it won't work.
The trick is to make sure you do it without clicking anywhere... That cancels the "recording" of the steps. I show my attemps in the iPad version. czcams.com/video/8C6BpZZwh20/video.html Let me know if that helps.
Thanks for this awesome and quick tutorial!! I saw a similar name plate but it was a straight column with a 45deg slice at the top for the face (vs a sweep). I wish I could figure that out but this is just as cool. For some reason tho I cant get this model to export on TC. I keep getting an error about a 'node' not loading and then the export times out. No problem with my other models though. Thanks again TC Master! 😁
Check out this trick to make complex designs simpler. It may help. czcams.com/video/GukWvUfkOAo/video.html You can also reach out via gmail hlmodtech and I will see if I can assist you.
On your video at around 3:34 you mentioned something about making them thinner... What were you talking about and how do you do this? What is typically the best speed to run something like this at? Yes... you guessed it, I am a newbie to 3D printing.
Thanks!!
I print everything at 60mm per second. I am not in too much of a hurry and the results are good for what I need. With the steps, I meant a thinner part with a smaller nudge would make the layers thinner and potentially smoother. It also could get so complex that Tinkercad bogs down. Good luck with it!
great tutorial and thankyou. Is there any way you can add emojis? Maybe the ability to copy and paste them into Tinkercad and put them before or after the text? Thanks
I think the trick would be to bring the emoji’s in as SVG files like this. Make a Tinkercad Kool Aid Man Fast using Images & SVG files | Pixlr
czcams.com/video/ua1fT4Xh2fY/video.html
After 3 degrees, Ctrl D 3 times not working for me. Where am I going wrong?
It is most likely a click somewhere in the middle... that breaks the "recording" of the steps. I saw a lot of users where it just took a bit of practice to get the order of the steps right.
I've watched and practiced this so many times and had students do it (with some success). Sometimes I can do it once, but I have trouble repeating the success. Today my TA and are both having trouble with the first duplication. Ctrl D. up arrow 3 times, but it moves sideways, backward, etc, not lifting straight up. Any tips? I think the angle I'm viewing from makes a difference?
The angle you are viewing it from does make a difference. I agree it takes practice to get the steps right. If you ever click somewhere in the middle of the steps it cancels them out too.
You may like the new trick I came up with last week too! czcams.com/video/ryf2B9PtPOQ/video.html
Hello I am having some trouble my duplicate button does not stack them together just moves the text around on the grid any idea on how to fix this ?
You have to do all 3 steps without clicking anywhere else in Tinkercad. I do it on a iPad in this video. I left in my mistakes, so it may make it more clear of how the process works. czcams.com/video/8C6BpZZwh20/video.html
I’m using a Mac for my designs, but the “Shift+N” for nudgeing doesn’t work. What is the command, or instructions to nudge that top layer back?
It is shift and the arrow key of choice for nudging. Sorry if I did not say that clearly.
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Thank you. I had some fun with that lesson.
Thanks for the tutorial , unfortunately i am not sure if i am missing something i can seem to bed the text ...any help with that?
I have printed and extruded flat text, so i am a bit familiar with tinkercad
instead of bed, you mean bend... right? The trick I use is duplicate, nudge, & rotate. That motion gets saved and then you can duplicate again & again to get the curved shape. This video shows the idea too, but in a circle for a flower. It may be a good starter. czcams.com/video/ivOl3Go7cVg/video.html
Is it possible for these types of objects to be made in rhinoceros?
I have not really played with Rhinoceros. When I did we were modeling really basic cars instead of text.
Hi thanks for the wonderful video.I have been practicing seeing your video,i need some clarification in sweeping text, "i don't know how to get smoother on outer edges".
Because we are using that nudge and rotate trick it really will always be a little rough. More expensive tools can make it smooth without the "trickeration". I just prefer free toys. =)
Is there any other tools to solve this problem because for printing it won't look nice
I printed mine and was happy with the result. If you do smaller nudges it gest closer to smooth. (It also gets more complex which can slow Tinkercad down). I do not think you will find a free tool that does it.
@@HLModTech I will try with smaller nudge for better result.
Came up with a new solution! Thanks for nudging me. =) I gave you a bit of a shoutout in the vid. Hoping I pronounced your name correctly. Will take me about an hr to get the vid edited and posted.
can you please explain me to make text stand?
I am not quite sure what you mean. If you would like to send me a picture it may help. You can track me down via email at hlmodtech gmail. I would be happy to see if I can figure it out.
Mine isnt exporting. It is stuck on preparing model for export.
It is possible that it has become to complex to export. I have had so many layers to froze everything up. Do you have just one word in there or more?
Maybe I was trying to get too fancy. I put words and a . Svg. I actually got it to work by exporting each one individually then importing them again and combining. Thanks for the tutorial. I learned a lot of other tricks as well
Is there a way to make a cut out of the text you make. So let’s say I made the text say “welcome” and I used the hole feature and pushed it into the item 2mm and that looks great printed in bright yellow. But now I want to print “welcome” in black about 1mm thick so I can inlay that into the yellow welcome to make it pop. How do I do that??
Let me see what I can whip up. Thanks for the idea.
@@HLModTech I have been poking on this for a day. Did a search and nothing but landed in your video and thought….this guy will know.
Sorry I did not get this done yesterday. I had a memory of it... but could not find the comment. It would depend on the font and it would be 1 letter at a time... so tedious after printing. Are you thinking of doing it with the sweeping text?
@@ipon70 See if this works. czcams.com/video/IeJLqeoXcHI/video.html
@@HLModTech so yeah I am just using the default “multi” text I believe. I am at work right now, but I don’t have anything except the couple of default fonts installed. But I was thinking just each letter, and then gluing them in. And as far as getting back in one day……dude I am just happy your willing to help, so no worries. No sweeping text, just straight across and flat.
How much time takes to print this plz reply
I printed mine really small so it took less than an hour.
Hello HL, Thank you for taking your time and demonstrating this it is awesome. So I was doing this in Tinkercad and I noticed there are tiny gaps in between, is this normal? as I redid it a few times lol. Thank you for your time. Smiles, Donna
The gaps can be normal. It depends on the rotation degrees and nudges you use before duplicating. I used to guess and check till I got mine how I liked them. Thanks for dropping by!
@@HLModTech Your Welcome and thank you for responding. Instead of just 1mm I added 2 and it looked great. Happy Week. :~)
Sweet! Great job solving it. 💯👍
Hi, your videos have helped me out a lot. Thanks! Do you know if there is a way to bevel custom font letters? It's really racking my brain 🧠 🙃
There is nothing built into Tinkercad to do fancier bevels than the font tool already has. More expensive programs have fancier stuff. Bevels are tough for a web based tool though.
@@HLModTech thanks! That's what i figured. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't some hidden feature.
thanks for the lesson. i ask you how smooth the letter ?
I do not have a strategy for that. The way were tricking Tinkercad to make it, it’ll just have that stagger in the back. If you do smaller nudges it would look more smooth but the more parts you have the more it strains tinkercad.
When I hit control d for it to stand up, it does nothing.
Finally got it.
Well done. I was just going to say how tricky it is at first to not click somewhere in the middle of those steps. 💯👍
great vid is there a way to make two lines? - one under the other? Thanks
I will do some thinking. The trick really kicked Tinkercad's butt... #lag so I am not sure.
@@HLModTech no problem as I have an older laptop I am trying this on and man talk about LAG hahaha- you have a great site btw- I'll still try and get this to work - it's fun even with the lag- thanks for responding sooo fast
This doesn’t work on the iPad. I can’t get it to work right. It just picots in 1 spot at the middle of the text.
Do you have a keyboard that you can attach to the iPad? Without those arrow keys for nudging it will be pretty tricky.
@@HLModTech no. Not for my iPad.
Ok, let me see what I can whip up.
@@HLModTech ok
Video posting now. It works, but even in the video you will see it took me 3x to get it.
How do you make text on a round cylinder?
Check this trick out. czcams.com/video/y6zaALTYYms/video.html
Are you having any problems uploading exporting these? Mine always time out. I contacted Tinkercad and they told me they were too intricate. It really isn't doing me any good designing these if I can't export them back to myself.
I just exported one today for the resin printer. I did have to wait about 5 minutes or so for the grouping to happen. What do you mean by uploading it? I exported mine as an STL and then brought it into the slicing program for printing.
@@HLModTech Yes, I mean exporting. I even made on with only 15 parts and it times out? Maybe it is a problem on their side.
Here is the link: www.tinkercad.com/things/iiJdY7PCDmA-terrific-blorr-blad/edit?sharecode=1sadqruGRh2pir7IV8cBr-vW5fzDJl2MOMUsLCrmil4
TinkerCad is so awesomly easy to use, but once you create a 3d object that is slightly more complex then a basic prefab like the model described here in this video, it seems that it will not export out to STL. It chokes and says "Oops, something went wrong"
What sort of proejct are you struggling with? These tips can help you make some pretty complex things. czcams.com/video/wP7TUabWTqw/video.html
Why is mine saying -3?
And part of the text is going beneath the plane.
Do you mean -3 when you rotate? That is just based on which direction you rotate or which direction the text was facing when you started. As far as going beneath the plane, I picked the numbers (.5 and .75 up) that allowed it to work. You can do it with different values, but you will need to use guess and check to dial them in... that is how I did it.