Filleting Corners in TinkerCAD

[@ssranon]

Thanks for this video, I'm a total newbie at TinkerCAD and this was really helpful.

[@morrice]

Excellent tool...much appreciated.

[@emschrader418]

4 years later and you helped me greatly. Thanks!!

[@HagerHay]

That makes the corner slightly thin, how about building up the material on the inside ?

[@stuffoflardohfortheloveof]

If you wanted/needed to do that you could use the same filleting tool but change it from a 'hole' into a 'solid' and add it to inside of the corner, then group it with the model etc 👍

[@PatrickMcNealPuppets-n-Things]

Thanks for the tips; I tried it myself and this works really well.

[@Mrstrikerace]

Way too much work, just use a cube and a circle same size. Align them together with the align tool and then cut out. Perfect every time. Just something to save you time for yourself and your students. I admire what it takes to be a teacher. :-) I just noticed that the video is older so new tools in the new versions where you can save the item to your favorites. You can also just ctrl c the item and then just paste it into the other tab where your item to be modified was. Nice job on the part though and very useful. The internet is a horrible and cruel mistress. If I ever take the plunge and do a video I will know that there are terrible people out there and we have to expect ANYTHING when it comes to comments from the general public. I ran a business for 20 years and you would be amazed at the things that come out of the mouths of people. And that is when they are standing right in front of you.

[@tensor131]

One other 'tweak'. I don't know how others find this but when I'm trying to align objects in the plane, I find it much easier to go TOP and use 'flat view' .. I find aligning objects in any perspective view, very confusing but maybe it's just me.

[@kjamison5951]

I have a lot of issues with TinkerCAD due to severe lag when I am dealing with many elements on screen. I’m using an i5 with 16GB RAM and a 32Mbit broadband stream which is fine for everything, except TinkerCAD. So I am currently learning to use a free to use software package that can be downloaded to my computer as an app. I cannot imagine what it’s like to use TinkerCAD in a classroom environment with the dreadful internet speeds I witnessed when I worked in a school. Good video and clear concise explanations. I found myself explaining a lot of stuff to students. They just wanted to do stuff but they didn’t know how so I prepped files ahead of time and stepped them through. It’s important to provide the ‘instant gratification’ for students after a few steps, rather than at the end of the entire exercise. They need to see they are accomplishing tasks and getting results to maintain their focus.

[@awjaaa]

Boy, I've never seen so many TinkerCad snobs in one place, before. C'mon, y'all, it's 5 years old (before much of what ya mention was available in TinkerCad), and the dude is sharing knowledge. Get the sticks outta yer butts.

[@compudude]

Pro Tip: In your saved "4mm Fillet tool" item, go ahead and create your tool in every orientation around a square: 4 on each corner one direction, and 4 on each corner in the other direction (since sometimes you want to fillet horizontal corners, too). And of course set them all to be holes, too. And then the next time you want to round off the corners off something basically square or rectangular, no more rotating and adjusting and changing state, just copy them all into the new item, and start aligning them to your object. Huge time saver!

[@dancollins4673]

excellent tutorial!! would you consider other shape ideas that would help me in learning tinkercad. I'm a complete novice, but catching on quickly

[@JoeTaxpayer]

Special place in the afterlife for HS teachers! Unfortunately, often a thankless job. I'm curious - if you can save the file to import as a tool, this means it can be shared. Wondering if there's a collection of such useful small tools somewhere. Either way, I appreciate your time and patience explaining this.

[@deltajohnny]

Great video! 👏👏

[@TheLEDwheel]

There is an item already setup in the library to do this. This is more complicated than it has to be.

[@tensor131]

where is that please? By the library you mean the selection pane (basic etc.) on the rhs?

[@TheLEDwheel]

@tensor131 two things. The basic shapes square can already have rounded edges in its object menu on top right when selected. It's the same place you change the color. The other is in the shape generators section. It's a corner that has a round cutout. It's basic color is blue. You can make it negative and adjust it to fit the radius you want on any corner and then combine.

[@danko6582]

You've reinvented the metafillet. If you want to do it the hard way you should have rotated the roof 90 degrees before aligning (or just use a box. Then use cylinder with a number of sides divisible by four like 24 for example.

[@DONphantasmo]

Man... This is really helping me with my corners. Great video Ryan!!!

[@max0r4axor]

you can just copy paste instead of importing and exporting stl

[@dugy40]

Great but you should have shown everyone how to save that on the right in “your creations.”

[@dennisgignac5103]

Thank you

[@robertl6711]

Easiest way for me to do it was leave tinkercad and go to fusion 360.

[@sampiro2133]

This is the way. …and kind of AutoDesk’s plan.

[@TheGnthreman]

Me too.

[@loydbrush2041]

If you want round corners you can adjust the Radius to get round corners.

[@l3d3ni]

Just a suggestion if you ate watching this in 2024, it is easier to rotate a part than the filet tool. You setup one corner then duplicate the tool, then merge, then rotate the part, duplicate tool, merge...

[@RudiVDS]

Very usefull movie , thank you for sharing

[@MrKeenSharpeningService]

didnt see the necessity to change the work surface. also when you rotated the main object all you had to do was select the view plane. you instead used the more complicated methods in several instances IMO

[@mwpowell1969]

You made this waaaayyyy harder than it needs to be. First, there’s already a fillet tool, just search the meta & you don’t need to do any of this. Also, your manipulations were overly complicated. You don’t need a new workplane to move the cylinder in an orthogonal direction, just move it. And if you’d just rotated the triangular prism to align orthogonally along the base sides instead of the hypotenuse, you could have then used the align tool to get a perfect fit and avoided that entire part about deleting the small remnants.

[@EnricoMerigliano]

Great! Thanks!

[@TheBestUni]

❤

[@iq0099]

Autodesk dont care about tinkercad and therefore its ignored without any new features.

[@Farmboyjason]

You sure are slow to make a point.

[@markjoly8597]

I'm looking for a quick video about rounding corners. This isn't it

[@ryancastor9249]

I am a high school teacher, so my tutorials are intended for students who have never used the software before. I have be as descriptive as possible. Try figuring it out on your own next time if you want to be so critical about my work. The internet could use less people like yourself.

[@dancollins4673]

yet you found enough time to make a negative comment