Guided 3D projects for iPad
Guided 3D projects on iPad teach you to design and print, with help inside the editor. Start with a calibration cube, then make a case for a Raspberry Pi.
iPad · iPadOS 27 or later · No CAD experience needed
Pick up right where you left off
Project 2
How it works
The coach walks you through it in the real editor, one checked step at a time.
Send it to your slicer, a friend's printer or a print service.
Measure the cube with calipers. Fit the Pi in its case. Then make the next one.
The coach
Each project shows the next move, checks your model as you go, and explains what to fix.
The editor
Sketch on planes or right on a face, with exact sizes. The same tools the projects teach are there when you go your own way.
The print
Your Parts are ordinary files in the Files app, and every one exports for printing.
Projects
Each one ends in a real print, and teaches moves the next one uses.
Design the cube every maker prints first: 1 inch, rounded, with X, Y and Z marked so you can check your printer. About 20 minutes, and it prints in well under an hour.
Design a case for a Raspberry Pi Zero: sketch on its faces to hollow it, hold the board and open its ports. About 25 minutes; no Pi needed to make it.
Questions
Anything else? Support has more, and an email address. The guide covers every tool.
The guided tutorials and any two working projects are free. For more working projects at once, it's $5/month. If you cancel, your Parts and exports stay yours. There are no ads and no account.
No. You can make every project and export the file without one. See No printer yet.
No. Everything works with a finger. Apple Pencil adds shortcuts like quick lines and scribble to erase. See Finger and Apple Pencil.
MakerSketch is for iPad, and needs iPadOS 27 or later.
In the Files app, under On My iPad › MakerSketch, unless you moved them. See Your Parts in Files.
Price
Pay only if you want more projects on the go at once.
Everything you need to learn and print.
$0
For when two projects at once isn't enough.
$5/month
Works with a finger. Pencil makes it faster.
The Calibration Cube is 1 inch, rounded, with X, Y and Z marked, and it prints in well under an hour.
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