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Tinkercad - Design & 3D Print A Custom Keyring (Udemy.com)

Create amazing custom 3D designs you can 3D print

4.8

61 reviews

Created by: Ruan Lotter

Last updated September 2023

What you will learn

Learn how to use Tinkercad to design amazing 3D models and 3D print them
Learn how to convert any logo image to an SVG vector image using Adobe Illustrator
Create shapes from reference images using Tinkercad
You will learn how to create your own custom Keyring object using Tinkercad
Learn how to export your designs from Tinkercad to your favourite 3D printing slicer

How it compares

Against the other 545 rated Udemy courses in 3D Modeling on CourseDuck:

Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 90% of them
Reviews61#501 of 546 by number of reviews
Length0.7 hoursshorter than 98% of them
Last updatedSeptember 2023more recently than 61% of them

Course Description

Tinkercad - Design & 3D Print A Keyring From Any Logo or Design

In this exciting new course I will show you how to make a keyring or tag from any logo or design and then 3D print it on your 3D printer.

During this course we will make use of Adobe Illustrator for creating vector artwork!
You can download a free trial from the Adobe website.

You can also use one of the following free alternatives to Illustrator:
Inkscape or Gimp

The following topics will be discussed during this course:

1: Introduction
2: All about logos
3: Importing into Adobe Illustrator
4: Tracing your logo in Adobe Illustrator
5: Export vector logo as SVG
6: Create your first Tinkercad Project
7: Importing SVG files into Tinkercad
8: Create basic keyring shape
9: Create the ring geometry
10: Export STL file for 3D Printing
11: Slicing your STL
12: Conclusion
13: Bonus Lesson - Create a personalised signature keyring!

You Will Learn:

1: How to convert any logo image to SVG vector using Adobe Illustrator
2: How to import the SVG into Tinkercad
3: How to create a 3D object using the vector image
4: How to create your own custom keyring in Tinkercad
5: How to export your project as a STL for 3D Printing

I really hope that this course will enable you to come up with and create amazing 3D designs using the easy and free application Tinkercad! Let me know if you have any questions and I will gladly answer them.

Please upload your class project deliverable as JPG or PNG to the Skillshare project gallery for review! You can find the details regarding the project under Class Project.

All the best and happy 3D designing!
Ruan Lotter

All Levels

Time: 42 mins

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Instructor Details

Ruan Lotter

4.8 Rating
61 Reviews

Ruan Lotter is a VFX & 3D Artist, Online Teacher, Music Producer and Author from Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked on many short films and TV commercials for brands such as Hasbro, Lipton, RB, Ryobi and HP doing mostly camera tracking, general 3D work and compositing.

It all started in 1994 when he discovered 3dsmax for DOS! Back then it was called "3D Studio" and that changed everything... A few years later, 3dsmax for Windows was released and the world of online tutorials was born. Ruan instantly started binge watching online tutorials on a website called "3D Buzz" and dove deep into the world of 3D. Over the years he used many different VFX related software such as Adobe After Effects, Maya, Cinema4d, Modo, PFTrack, Boujou and Nuke to name a few and he fell in love with the world of Visual Effects and YouTube became his university of choice.

At the beginning of 2020, after many years of using Maya, he found Blender which quickly became his go-to application for anything 3D or VFX related. In mid 2022 he published his first book "Taking Blender to the Next Level" which is available on Amazon.

He currently works as a VFX Artist & 3D Generalist at Accenture, doing mostly 3D and VFX work on TV and Web content for well known brands.

He also runs a YouTube channel called TunnelvizionTV where he teaches VFX and Motion Graphics using a variety of applications.