Make a Fidget Toy in Tinkercad

Learn how to easily make a fidget hexagon in Tinkercad. This cool project is very easy and can be done very quickly.
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Step 1 - 0:25 Making the Starter
Step 2 - 4:13 The correct initial size
Step 3 - 5:22 Duplicating
Step 4 - 7:17 Align and Group
Step 5 - 8:20 Make one Group
Step 6 - 8:37 Delete, Duplicate and Rotate
Thicker Fidget Hexagon Numbers
100, 94
88, 82
76, 70
64, 58
52, 46
40, 34

[@koraRose]

It's awesome to see tutorials for the complex use of tinkercad. I use tinkercad myself for things and had to learn this stuff by trial and error. Great work!

[@Teaching3DPrinting]

Thank you. I think I push Tinkercad because my students would get bored if I didn't.

[@JoeHenson23]

I am also stuck on step 3- when I hold shift and shimmy the mouse - then enter a number and hit enter, the other axis (Y in this case) doesn't auto-scale to maintain the aspect ratio - any suggestions?

[@Teaching3DPrinting]

The way around this is to hold the shift key and slowly move the mouse until the number on the right matches the numbers that are posted on the right side of the video. For example, on the first shimmy, just drag the corner until it reaches 85. I hope that helps.

[@JoeHenson23]

Thanks! What I found is that you cannot have the ruler on the work plane for this to work. Once I removed the ruler, it worked perfect!

[@YTheSuperGamer]

Are we able to get a download?

[@Teaching3DPrinting]

Sorry, I want to my students to learn how to make it on their own. Otherwise they wouldn't try.

[@rafaellaparodi8254]

Hi! I am stuck in step 3, trying to figure out how to make everything move at scale, my laptop is a lenovo and it doesn't have shift? and everything I try doesn't work. Do you know how could I do it? or give me the height of the piramids? thank you! awesome video btw!

[@Teaching3DPrinting]

Sorry for the late reply but I don't know how to do it without the shift button. The way I would work around it is by connecting a regular keyboard to your laptop and use the shift key on the regular laptop while doing the shimmy. Hope it works for you.

[@JoeHenson23]

What I found is that you cannot have the ruler on the work plane for this to work. Once I removed the ruler, it worked perfect!

[@TCL-wf7mu]

2:58 how did you select both

[@Teaching3DPrinting]

You can drag over the two items or hold the shift button down while clicking on both items.