To separate one design into multiple parts for printing, use a box that is a hole in TinkerCAD to group with the part of the design you are removing from the print. Similarly, I couldn't print the words all at once, so I needed to break up the phrase to print one word at a time. My printer wasn't quite tall enough to print the entire thing upright in one go, and I was afraid a 14+ hour job might fail in the middle. I decided the temple needed to be printed upright so I wouldn't have to use supports or do much cleaning after printing, so I split up the object into multiple pieces I could print separately, then glue together. Next, with the words and the temple now in TinkerCAD I was ready to prepare for printing. (Note: If you haven't used TinkerCAD before, following a quick tutorial on Youtube should give you the basic skills you need for this!)įor an example of the temple design in TinkerCAD, here is the link. Finally, grouping the hole and the temple effectively cut off everything below the workplane so I just had the front facade left, sized how I needed for the canvas. Next, I added a box that was a hole below the workplane and dropped the temple below the workplane until just an inch or so was above the plane. ( Note: If you click 'Edit Grid' in the bottom right of the canvas and change the setting from millimeters to inches, it will be easier to get the size you need.) Then I sized the temple so the length up and down would be about 10 inches to fit on the canvas (you do this uniformly by selecting the object, holding shift on the keyboard, then dragging one of the corner boxes to shrink the object smaller until the desired length/width). So, I rotated the temple to put the front facade on the top (you do this by selecting the object, then clicking the double arrows that appear above the image and rotating it around 90 degrees). For me, I only wanted the front facade, about an inch or so coming out of the canvas. Next, determine how much of your image you will want popping out of the canvas. STL file from the thingiverse download and import. Then, open a new design in TinkerCAD and click the 'Import' button on the top right. Just follow the steps below!įirst, download the thingiverse files and unzip the folder.

You really can choose any design to customize for wall art. Next, on to the 3D design! The design I chose of the Salt Lake Temple on Thingiverse is found here.

3d canvas frame