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Adding a star

Adding a star - Tinkercad Tutorial

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Adding a star

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- In this video, I'll show you how to add a Star to serve as a customized plaque for your trophy. I'll use the Shortcut menu at the top to jump to the Symbols. Then I'll click and drag a Star into the work space. Zoom in a little bit closer here. I'm gonna hold down the Shift key to keep this proportional, and I'm gonna drag this out. Want it to be about 55 millimeters, sort of on average. That looks good. And I'll click and drag this with sort of approximately centered. Orbit around my view. Now I'm gonna rotate my Star to a 45 degree angle. Again, snapping by keeping my mouse close into the inner snapping ring. I'll keep it there. Now I want a couple things. I want these bottom points of the Star to be above the workplane, so I'll use the cone to drag it up. And then I want it to be intersecting with my base, and so I'll use the arrow keys to push it back into space. That looks good. It's roughly centered. Later on I'll do an align and perfectly center it. All right, so that's good.…

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