{"id":31800,"date":"2017-06-13T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=31800"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:27:38","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-21-3d-design-made-simple-morphi-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/tutorial-tuesday-21-3d-design-made-simple-morphi-ipad","title":{"rendered":"3D Design Made Simple With Morphi and an iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the landscape of beginner-friendly 3D design software, I’ve come across an option that’s just as good for adult beginners as it is for kids. But how early can kids learn to create 3D printable designs? As soon as they can use an iPad, if they\u2019re using\u00a0Morphi<\/a>, a\u00a0friendly and\u00a0powerful 3D design app.<\/p>\n

Morphi also removes the annoying barriers to designing in a classroom: How does a student get a picture and send it to the computer? What if the internet connection goes down? Not a problem any more.\u00a0Hand a second-grader an iPad with the Morphi app<\/a> and they\u2019ll be designing their own 3D printable models literally in minutes.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re looking to learn 3D design yourself, Morphi is one of the easiest ways to\u00a0get started.<\/p>\n

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already have a file? print it here<\/a><\/h4>\n

Morphi for the Classroom<\/h3>\n

One of the best features of Morphi is its\u00a0very\u00a0simple and intuitive interface for\u00a0turning 2D sketches into 3D models<\/strong>.\u00a0In\u00a0the\u00a0iPad version (there are also\u00a0desktop versions for Mac and Windows<\/a>), you\u00a0simply draw 2D images with your finger and then extrude and place by dragging on the screen. Here’s a simple sled design<\/a> with rails drawn by hand, then extruded into the design.<\/p>\n

For straightforward educational use, this is amazing, since you\u00a0can navigate, zoom, rotate, scale, align, add color, join or subtract shapes, and do pretty much everything else you’d want to do, right on the iPad touchscreen.\u00a0It’s also easy to take photographs with the iPad and import them into Morphi.<\/p>\n

Morphi makes 3D design feel breezy, like this simple extruded light-up LED star:<\/p>\n

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Getting Started with Morphi<\/h3>\n

To get a quick idea of how Morphi works in practice, check out this\u00a0playlist of short Morphi tutorial examples<\/a>:<\/p>\n