Chapter 4
Exploring the User Interface
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exploring the Tinkercad Start screen and Dashboard
Using the Tinkercad ViewCube to your advantage
Seeing how the Tinkercad viewing tools work and how they make your life easier!
Using the Snap Grid in the Tinkercad Workplane
Applying some great Tinkercad keyboard shortcuts
In this chapter, you delve deeper into Tinkercad and its user interface. You explore the Start screen and Tinkercad Dashboard and discover how to use the ViewCube to your advantage when working on your Tinkercad designs. You also find out more about the viewing tools and Snap Grid and discover some great Tinkercad keyboard shortcuts!
Venturing Away from the Start screen
After you log in to Tinkercad, you see the Start screen.
The Start screen incorporates the Tinkercad Dashboard, but if you’re not sure what to design, go abstract. Just click Create new design. Tinkercad takes you to a blank design where you can drop a basic shape into the Workplane and see what ...
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