Tinkercad

I think Tinkercad is fun to mess around with and see what you can create even though it is a basic website for 3D modeling. I didn’t have to much trouble creating all the different items, however some took longer than others such as the bowler hat and aviator glasses. Everything else like the egg, pvc tube, spoon presented slight challenges however they used simple shapes and were easy enough to construct without having to make a lot of cutouts. The aviators on the other hand got me going, I had no idea where to start at first until I looked long enough at a picture of them and I still don’t think I got super close to a pair that look good, but I think you could guess that they are indeed a pair of aviator sunglasses.

It took me a little longer than two hours to create a pair of glasses that I was happy with. My biggest struggle of creating the glasses were the lenses themselves, I couldn’t seem to make the square oval look on them so I got them as close as I could using an oval. I feel like mine look more like a retro pair of aviators rather than the newer ones, they are definitely an interpretation of aviators rather than looking exactly like a pair of real ones. Another problem I ran into was with the spoon and trying to create the curve need to lead in to the spoon part so I made two different versions of a spoon, interpret them as you would like. The bowler hat was simple enough, just a matter of getting the correct brim on the hat and the fact that it needs to be oval in shape rather than round. The egg and pvc were definitely the easier ones, simply using 4 sets of tubes for the pipe and 4 sets of the half spheres for the egg. The erlenmeyer flask I think was the most interesting one to create because you have to figure out the curvature of the neck and and base in using a cone which I never would of thought of had I not had an in class walkthrough. Tinkercad overall is fun site to mess around with, but doesn’t have much practical use other than that.