The Tinkercad team have been busy enabling an interesting new capability in their product called Community Shape Scripts. As I've mentioned before, for some time it's been possible to make Shape Scripts public for other Tinkercad users to inspect and learn from, but now it's even easier to share – and to discover – interesting Shape Scripts.
You still need to select the "Share Code'" option inside the script's properties – if you want to share the implementation details with the community – then once you have the Shape Script just as you want it to be shared, simply click the "Publish to Community" button:
To see what's been submitted by other Tinkercad users around the world, expand the "Community Shape Scripts" panel in the right-sash:
I checked the day after (they may well have been available sooner than that), and – sure enough – my Shape Scripts had made it onto the list:
Cool stuff. Now it's even easier to find interesting Tinkercad Shape Scripts and understand how others have created them.
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