Codeblocks

I've recently come across several tweets like the one to the left of people working with Codeblocks in TinkerCad. I figured today was a good day to test it out. I explored the Basket Tutorial and then modified it a bit to get the results below. I wanted to see if I could get positive results using my daughter's name.

I had to try several times, continually adjusting the font as well as the height, edge, edge steps and version values. The letters would not connect completely leaving open spaces in the basket that created separated layers. I solved the problem by adding a rod in the second section of code.

To do this I moved to a new project and figured out the dimensions I would need to get a rod to run completely through the text and therefore join everything together. With the proper values sorted, I just added them into the code provided by the tutorial and we were off.

Now I need to explore a little more to develop my full understanding of the code. I understand how it works, but I'm not sure I could duplicate the process on my own.