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A lot of the 3D Printing guys like that program, I haven't delved very far into it yet
Does it allow you to do animation/simulation?
You can use Sketchup to animate, but it's not great.
The main features are stuff like hinge movements and exploding groups of parts. You need a plugin to do this too.
You'd be better off with Maya or something similar in my opinion, Sketchup wasn't really designed to be used in that way.
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Hi Shaggy  Im doing a project in school and its to build a tumbler ! Im completely lost on it and i was wondering do you have any designs on how to make a model tumbler with the largest size being 300mm/ a foot . Its for metalwork. I'd really appreciate a response thanks
~daire
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Hey shaggy your 3d model is looking good . With the work you have put into it there
are ways to see if this is going to work before you build it. It's a little expensive but you should
give it a try. It's called stereolithography , it's a type of 3d printing that everything comes out smooth and with working real parts . Your files can be converted to do this. This lets you find problems before you spend all the money for a full build just to run into a problem
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| I have an interesting question to pose to everyone reading this thread. What if you were to use aluminum plates for the body of the tumbler to get that overall Metal look without the ability to break like fiberglass would? The body would be light but it would also offer more protection for the driver against God for bid any kind of wreck or accident while driving said vehicle.
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| And I have one more question to shaggy. have you noticed any differences body wise from the paper tumbler model versus the real model how accurate is that to the real car? Because I was thinking of using the templates from the paper model to mock something full-size. I have noticed one particular difference in the model versus the actual car , down the side of the paper Model it's straight but there is an angle there on the real car . A slight adjustment to the template I think would fix that And would have the basic templates for building the whole car. What do you think shaggy?
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Crash, can you give photo reference so I can see what you mean?
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Backside of the front side scoop middle of the scoop itself going across that side panel which would be right underneath the filler caps
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The Paper model you posted isnt of my work though. 
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It's the terrordron model. I just finished it recently , I was looking at it and just wandered if you could use it for mock up and how accurate it is.
. We had talked awhile back about it and you said you had the same file , see I don't have access to the files you put on this site yet . So I have been improvising
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Hi crashnburn,
You asked about aluminum, steel and fibreglass. Here's an opinion but the most important thing to remember is perhaps engineering etc. That aside here goes....
Cars are made from metal because its plentiful, cheap and easy to press into shape. Cars have been made with aluminum like the delorean and a few others like some audi's, etc and then some expensive cars use it on some panels to save weight but remember its aluminum and opens like a tin can so in an accident its going to get shredded. You would of course be mostly protected by your well designed chassis. So your body would basically collapse and the brunt of the impact would be on the chassis which would then transfer directly to your body. Unless your chassis has crumple zones but don't expect aluminum panels to do that. Steel panels do crumple which is better.
As for fibreglass perhaps you should check your facts. Fibreglass in an accident can actually provide more protection to the occupants as it flexes and as a result absorbs the impact. I'll see if I can locate a report on it from a crash expert. Corvette, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc have all used fibreglass and now they all use Kevlar or variants. Plus for a low speed impact you might be able pop the panel back into shape. Steel and aluminum stretch when dented.
Anyway something to think about?!?!
Any other opinions?
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