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Design a robotTinkerPieCAD tutorial 6 of 10 · Intermediate · 20 minutes

Build a friendly robot from boxes, spheres and cylinders. Practise positioning many parts.

Open the finished design in TinkerPieCAD (free, runs in your browser)

What you will learn

Shapes you need

Box ×4Sphere ×4Cylinder ×3

Steps

  1. Body and head

    Body: Box 30 × 20 × 34 at Z 29 (grey). Head: Box 26 × 20 × 18 at Z 55 (white).

  2. Face

    Add two Spheres 6 × 4 × 6 as eyes at X −6 and 6, Y −10, Z 57.

  3. Antenna

    A thin Cylinder 3 × 3 × 10 at Z 69 and a red Sphere 6 × 6 × 6 at Z 75.

  4. Arms and legs

    Arms: Box 8 × 8 × 26 at X ±20, Z 32. Legs: Cylinder 9 × 9 × 12 at X ±9, Z 6.

  5. Name it

    Click a part and rename it in the Shape panel, then press Home to admire your robot.

Why it works

Parts that touch or overlap print as one piece. Parts that float will not stick together, so use Drop.

Challenge: Give your robot a mouth using a hole box cut into the head (remember to group).

All sizes are in millimetres. Type exact numbers in the right-hand panel. Press Export to get an STL file for a 3D printer.

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