Tools
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Canva For Beginners
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool that students can use to create various types of designs, including infographics, marketing flyers, and short videos. This is a quick overview of Canva. This will provide you with general instructions for first-time users of Canva. So, if you are new to this design tool, please continue reading. Step 1: Setting up Your Account If you choose to sign up with your email, you will receive an authorization code from Canva sent to your email address. You can set a password in Account settings later. Step 2: Finding and Customizing Templates If you want to find a pre-made template: If you want…
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Tinkercad
Tinkercad is a free, web-based computer-aided design (CAD) platform that is simple to learn and use. It features a block-based design system where users can modify shapes by either combining them (additive design) or cutting away parts (subtractive design). This makes it a flexible and beginner-friendly tool for those new to 3D design. Pros of TinkerCad Cons of TinkerCad How to get started The Tinkercad website offers tutorials and step-by-step lessons, starting from the basics.
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Quick Guide to using Fusion 360
Fusion 360 is a 3D CAD/CAM design software and a part of the Autodesk suite. With a Trinity College e-mail address, you can obtain a free education license that provides access to Fusion 360. To activate your education license, go to Autodesk Fusion for Education webpage, and follow the instructions. You will typically be able to verify your student status once you verify your Trinity e-mail. Pros of Fusion 360: Cons of Funsion 360: Tutorials:
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Making Cricut Stickers
Cricut is a free, easy to use software to use for creating 2D designs for a variety of purposes; at the STA desk, we offer vinyl stickers/labels, buttons/pins, paper/card cutouts, and more. Here are some of the projects we’ve done with the Cricut machine in the past! Creating a project in Cricut is easy, and we’re here to help with every step. Here, we’ll outline a quick sticker project you can follow along with. At our desk, we offer printed vinyl stickers that you can design yourself (more on that later). We recommend filling an entire sheet before printing. Our sheets are 8.5in x 11in (21.6cm x 27.9cm) with a…
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A list of specialized software you can use at home
For students on campus, specialized software remains available through the open computer labs outside of class time, such as LITC B02. Students either on- or off-campus have access to a variety of software packages through a Windows virtual desktop. Information about how to access the virtual desktop from either a Mac or PC can be found at https://edtech.domains.trincoll.edu/windows-virtual-desktop/. Software available through the virtual desktop includes: SPSS STATA ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro Atlas.ti ChemDraw Eviews Mathematica Access options for other software are listed below, and note that there is a Student Emergency and Equity Fund for students that could find any additional cost prohibitive: ChemDraw Prime – Trinity…