Six Shooter
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Here are a few stray thoughts on TinkerCAD.
TinkerCAD saves EVERYTHNG immediately. Assume you have a design and you have given it the name "Item 1". You have a good design and are somewhat happy. A couple of days later you think of an improvement to the design. You see the design in your history and call it up using the "Tinker This" command. You then begin making improvements. Unfortunately, your idea was misguided and you have made changes to your original design which has modified the design in an unacceptable way. You exit TinkerCAD. When you reenter TinkerCAD you expect to see your original design before the inappropriate modifications. Instead you unhappily find "Item 1" now contains the most recent changes which have ruined your "good" design.
There are two solutions to this problem:
PREVENTION: Never retrieve a design using the "Tinker This" command. Always point and click on the options button (gear shaped icon) in the upper right corner of the box and choose the "Duplicate" command. This will place A COPY of your design on the work space thereby saving your original design in its original form. I suggest changing the name of the new design from "Copy of Item 1" to "Item 1 v 2.0". This technique will always preserve your prior copies should you need to revert to an earlier design. Each itineration of your design should receive a new version number.
RETRACE: Remember the first sentence, "TinkerCAD saves EVERYTHNG immediately"? Well, it does. When you see your ruined design in the history pane, point and click on the options button and choose "Version History". You will find that TinkerCAD has changed EVERY change you have made to your design. You can scroll through the various stages of the design and "Restore" your design to the appropriate design stage, thereby, saving your ruined design and restoring it to the "good design" stage.
Hope this helps someone.
TinkerCAD saves EVERYTHNG immediately. Assume you have a design and you have given it the name "Item 1". You have a good design and are somewhat happy. A couple of days later you think of an improvement to the design. You see the design in your history and call it up using the "Tinker This" command. You then begin making improvements. Unfortunately, your idea was misguided and you have made changes to your original design which has modified the design in an unacceptable way. You exit TinkerCAD. When you reenter TinkerCAD you expect to see your original design before the inappropriate modifications. Instead you unhappily find "Item 1" now contains the most recent changes which have ruined your "good" design.
There are two solutions to this problem:
PREVENTION: Never retrieve a design using the "Tinker This" command. Always point and click on the options button (gear shaped icon) in the upper right corner of the box and choose the "Duplicate" command. This will place A COPY of your design on the work space thereby saving your original design in its original form. I suggest changing the name of the new design from "Copy of Item 1" to "Item 1 v 2.0". This technique will always preserve your prior copies should you need to revert to an earlier design. Each itineration of your design should receive a new version number.
RETRACE: Remember the first sentence, "TinkerCAD saves EVERYTHNG immediately"? Well, it does. When you see your ruined design in the history pane, point and click on the options button and choose "Version History". You will find that TinkerCAD has changed EVERY change you have made to your design. You can scroll through the various stages of the design and "Restore" your design to the appropriate design stage, thereby, saving your ruined design and restoring it to the "good design" stage.
Hope this helps someone.
