
Learn to use a beginner-friendly 3d design software through step-by-step projects, starting simple and building to complex models with sketching, manipulating, cloud account navigation, and importing and exporting files.
Meet Olivia Klein, architect and educator with 30 years in design. She teaches 3d printing, digital modeling, and drafting, and writes books on 3d printing and modeling.
Set units to inches, create a half-inch box and a circle, extrude to form a hole, then fillet edges with snap, and use combine and subtract to shape hair beads.
Model a Lego Duplo block in Autodesk 123D Design by extruding a rectangle, adjusting nonuniform scale, adding studs, and creating a rectangular pattern to reproduce rows and columns.
Learn to design a 3D printable business card in Autodesk 123D Design by using sketch fill, text, and extrusion to create a merged card ready for printing.
In this Learning Autodesk 123D Design training course, expert author Lydia Cline will teach you how to create simple, useful items suitable for 3D printing. This course is designed for the absolute beginner, meaning no experience with Autodesk 123D Design is required.
You will start by learning about the interface, then jump into learning about basic tools and techniques, including mirror, offset, scale, split solid, chamfer, and non-uniform scale. From there, Lydia will teach you advanced tools and techniques such as sketch fillet, combine/merge, loft, and sweep. Finally, this video tutorial will teach you how to 3D print the model.
Once you have completed this computer based training course, you will be fully capable of creating and editing your own models that will be suitable for 3D printing.