Design a Snail Cup Coaster with Tinkercad with the "Sketch" Tool

SNAILS Coaster Design on Tinkercad

The thought about making a snail coaster is not new. About a decade or more ago I designed a snail coaster and had it cut out with a laser cutter. Which was used a a door gift to all the participants in a Design & Technology teachers conference. 

SNAILS again

Here again I thought of snails when I begin tinkering with Tinkercad. Some things never change.

Don't they look so cute when you have a family of them?

TOP VIEW

45 Degrees View

How Do I Make This Profile in TInkercad? 

I am guessing you want to know how I made this. If you used Tinkercad you'll quickly understand that this snail profile will be extremely tricky if you use the basic combining shapes method. Not only that - you may go crazy.

Glad that I found the "Sketch" tool. This tool is an incredible feature. I cannot NOT use it as soon as I learned about what it is and what it can do in Tinkercad. While it's features with the pen tool cannot be compared with the likes in Adobe Illustrator - however once it's limitation & simplicity is understood - more complex shapes can easily be created.

Several layers of "sketch" took place to create the final snail coaster profile I was looking for. 

Something that was impossible for me in Tinkercad is now possibilities only limited by my imagination. 

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Want to learn Tinkercad and start designing? Feel free to contact me at mrdanielsos@yahoo.com.sg for more details.