Then use the snap tool (the one that looks like a magnet). To make the hoop, instead of a circle, just make another smaller diameter cylinder that is taller than the larger one. Trust me, as much as I loved 123D, you're going to fight with it more than you will your projects. In fact, however long it's going to take you to get used to the align tool in 123D, TinkerCAD takes not even half the time. I know everyone and their uncle is going to tell you to abandon 123D just like Autodesk did, but believe me when I say not only has it been matched on many levels by the likes of TinkerCAD, but it's been surpassed by the likes of Fusion360, SelfCAD, Vectary, Clara.io, and even OpenSCAD/ BlocksCAD. If you need to be a little more exacting, whenever you move objects around, you can just click on the little window with the measurement displayed and manually enter the distiance. Mastering this is kind of hard to walk someone through, it's easier to pick up if you just mess about with it for a few minutes.Īs for the second bit, aligning that center track is going to boil down to your mastery of the alignment tool. This is why we have the almighty ALIGN tool. Of course, this mode is more than a tad fidgety and seems to require surgical levels of steadiness. If anybody could lend me a hand I would be ever so grateful.įor starters, when you make one shape and then another, while your'e dragging the second shape around, it will snap to edges and centers of faces. I can cut out an entire slice like going from the cylinder to a hoop but I am not sure how to cut just a 1mm or less out of the center of the hoop. I am also not sure how to cut out just a track. That again, needs to be centered and the centering in this one is more critical because the track will not be very deep (the lips on the cans don't project out a lot). The second issue is cutting the little track out of the middle hoop the lips of the soup cans will rest in. I wound up doing it by looking at the x and y and I am off by a bit. I found no way to exactly position the circle in the center of the cylinder. I started with a cylinder, and I tried to center a circle in the cylinder to cut the cylinder into a hoop. I have a couple major issues with trying to make this. The hoop would have a shallow track out of the middle to hold the protruding lips of the soup cans captive. The piece is a circular clamp that would go around two soup cans with a rectangular piece that is split that has a screw to draw the two sides of the hoop together. It is a hoop to hold two soup cans together end to end. I am working on what I thought would be a first project in 123D design.
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