PopUpTober Meets Circuit Sketcher
In anticipation of PopUpTober, we’re demonstrating a way to create a virtual model that may help speed up the production of your 3D ideas, including pop-up cards!
- Design and simulate your paper circuit virtually.
- Export a printable template of your design.
- Make your paper circuit!
Circuit Sketcher (our NEW Digital Design Software) is a digital design tool that allows you to experiment and play virtually with paper circuit components before using physical materials.
Designed with educators and students in mind, Circuit Sketcher allows you to choose from a variety of connectors, LEDs, battery holders, switches, and more!
Circuit Sketcher Can Help Reduce Abstraction
Working in 3D can be very challenging, especially when working with hidden layers (such as a pop-up card).
Circuit Sketcher can help to reduce the abstraction, by allowing you to play around with the location of a circuit’s connections. It allows you to actually see how a circuit will look once it’s built, even if the physical model requires that parts of the circuit be concealed.
This video demo will show you an easy way to play with circuit design, overlayed on an image of a 3D model, to help streamline the prototyping process!
Learn More
You can learn more about Circuit Sketcher, in general, by visiting Try Circuit Sketcher: Design Software for Paper Circuits.
Or, to learn how to use it to create “bridges,” visit Tech Tip: Build a Bridge to Prevent a Short Circuit.