Editing the Grid

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Transcript

At this point, you probably are getting a bit more comfortable with the basics of tinkercad. And you're probably ready to start making your own designs. The next thing we're going to talk about is how to adjust the default settings of the workplane and something called the snap grid. This isn't as interesting as the rest of the material in this series. So as a reward for getting through this part, at the end of this video, I have a special guest star. I'll see you at the end.

In tinkercad, the default workplane is set to millimeters. So whenever you see a number when you're hovering over these boxes, or if you're using the ruler tool, these numbers will be millimeters. So this cube is 22 by 22 millimeters. To change the default settings, you can go to the Edit grid button in the bottom right corner. From here you can change the units from millimeters to inches. By clicking update grid, everything will now be shown in inches.

You can also change the default size of the workplane. So the default size is 200 by 200 millimeters. That is if you have it in millimeters you can change the size by manually changing these numbers, or you could set it to a different preset tinkercad has many different presets for if you're working with a specific 3d printer. To change it back to the default, simply click on the preset strap down and at the top. You can click on default and then update grid The Edit grid button you'll see something called the snap grid. The default is set to one millimeter.

The snap grid is the smallest increment that your object can move. So currently, if I were to use the left and right arrow keys on the selected object, it can only move one millimeter to the left and to the right, or up and down. If you need to use finer precision with your object, you can change this to a smaller number. If I set it to point one, my movements are going to be much smaller. Alternatively, you can make it a bigger number. And now things will snap five millimeters at a time.

For most projects, the default settings will do Just fine. Okay, as promised, here is your special guest star

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