CAD for Kids - Intro to 3D Design & 3D Printing

This exercise teaches kids basic 3d design in CAD by building a simple house and tree with boxes, a roof, a cylinder, and a sphere, while orbiting, panning, and zooming.

Learn to use new commands in a kid-friendly CAD tool: create designs, move, rotate, scale with grips, and group objects.

Design a simple chair with the box shape, adjusting color, radius, and dimensions in the properties window. Copy, paste, and duplicate parts, then group legs, seat, back, and supports.

Subtract volumes by turning shapes into holes and grouping them to remove overlapping areas. Design a simple bridge by creating piers, a deck, and railings with duplicating, rotating, and centering.

Learn to subtract volumes with holes, then master the align and mirror commands to position and reflect shapes, as you build a snowman in our beginner cad for kids course.

Design a rocket by combining cylinders, cones, tubes, and letters, align objects with front, center, left, right, and vertical guides, and flip parts with the mirror command.

Learn to align objects and stack them precisely using the work plane, adjust inches and millimeters units, and set grid and snap grid for 3d printing.

Design an airplane in a kids CAD app by building the body with a cylinder and adding the nose, cockpit, wings, tail, and landing gear.

Design an airplane by adding engines and landing gear, using tubes, cylinders, and a paraboloid, then align, duplicate, and group parts for a complete model.

Learn to use the ruler to measure from the origin in x and y, switch between midpoint and end point, and place holes precisely on a plate.