Yes, we actually really DO have a To-Do list — no lip service here! — where we keep all of the highly requested (and sometimes begged for!) features from you, our awesome Tinkercad users! This morning, and thanks again to our fab development team, we are pleased to bring you two fantastic tools to the editor. As always, tell us what you think! But before you do, check ‘em out:
MIRRORING. Woot! There it is!
Here’s a real-life example of how to mirror letters…
…just drag the resize handle to the left or right:
And….MULTICOLOR!
Ever felt that your designs could use a splash of internal color? Here’s a relief CD case that clearly needs something to spice it up:
Multicolor to the rescue!
This setting preserves the original colors of shapes within a group. It works on a per-group basis, so you can even combine unicolor and multicolor groups into yet another multicolor group.
You can enable it in the color picker:
See how the color picker button is smart enough to display the actual colors within the group? This is a very fashion-forward feature!
Enjoy!
Tinkercad Team
This is really neat, is it possible to apply color post grouping or do we need to walk back our grouping to recolor? (as of 10:41am pictures don’t display in blog post)
Thanks, srduval! You will need to ungroup it in order to multicolor. And thanks for letting us know! We fixed it =)
You could also dive into the group by double clicking it (a light red square appears on the workplane showing group’s dimensions) and then color individual shapes. To exit the group just click anything but the shapes in the group. This way you can change colors without ungrouping.
The image links are broken
Yes! Sorry. Fixed =)
Hmm… most of the images that are in this post are showing up as broken for me…
Thanks for letting us know! We fixed ‘em =)
I was hoping someone would make this mirror feature. So glad to see it. Thanks!
Fantastic! We were hoping you’d say that =)
Multicolor is great, but it doesn’t seem to be working correctly in the 3d viewer.
Thanks for pointing this out, Nic! Reported and fixed hopefully very soon =)
Hi Nic,
This should be all fixed now! Let us know if you see any other issues.
Thanks!
I think mirroring is great, but what is multicolor good for?
As far as I know you can’t print something in multicolor…
Hi Julian! Great question =) Multicolor looks cool, so it’s fun to be able to use it even though you may not print it out. There are printing companies out there, like i.Materialise and Shapeways, that allow you print in beautiful (and multiple) colors. Check out: http://i.materialise.com/materials/sample-kit and http://www.shapeways.com/materials/sandstone.
MIRRORING!!!!!!!!! That is really REALLY Awesome!!!!!!
Thanks very much for adding this feature
Heheeee! Thanks, Perry! We thought you might really appreciate this new feature
The multicolour feature is awesome. I accidentally stumbled across it when I was creating the new revision to my 8-bit cartridge holder. I just ordered a copy with 2 colours from Shapeways and can’t wait to see how it looks!
Sweet!! =) How did they come out??