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Tinkercad celebrates its 10th birthday

Tinkercad was born of a desire to extend 3D CAD and along the way 3D printing to the world. Original founders Kai Backman and Mikko Mononen were determined to break the logjam that has grown along with interest in 3D design. They could see that there was huge interest in 3D design to enable 3D printing, create rendered visualizations, and ...

Kathleen Maher

Tinkercad was born of a desire to extend 3D CAD and along the way 3D printing to the world. Original founders Kai Backman and Mikko Mononen were determined to break the logjam that has grown along with interest in 3D design. They could see that there was huge interest in 3D design to enable 3D printing, create rendered visualizations, and just play.   All this is happening and Tinkercad is part of the story.Backman and Mononen were paying attention to the times. Backman had been an engineer at Google. Mononen was active in game development and was a veteran of Finland’s
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