Cars and Automotive Design

I prefer to use Alias Autodesk. the Alias has tools specific for surface and the tools of it are very helpful for this job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qnFpQ6xIc&t=816s

This is my latest work in 2 hours check it with alias: https://grabcad.com/library/concept-car-morphus-1

Rhinoceros and Alias are very similar.Both works on Nurbs technology. Car designing basically rely on Alias, Maya, Icem Surf surfacing tools. Solidworks, Inventor is designed for engineering more than surfacing. In a future if you would like to work in automotive industry better learn Rhino or Alias. Rhino has huge advantage - price! And it's fully professional tool

Thanks, I will check alias, hope the learning curve is not steep.

You said you did that in two hours, does that include the time you spent birthing the concept as well as sketching or just the time spent transferring from paper to model

BTW, you've got really nice works there, did you use Alias for the hammer as well?

Actually, I was using a video where a guy designed a Ford GT in Solidworks, I designed the car half way and I realized it was taking a lot of my time than necessary.

I think I will try rhino now then alias later

Thanks

I spent 2 hours to transferring from paper to model (because there are many reverse curves as you saw), but I could make in 1 hour.

for the hummer I used inventor and cinema4d in order to add the several spheres as texture.

Hi Clifford Olawaiye,

(1) How much do you have to push yourself to model a car ??? External, internal, engine etc etc .. or ONLY external ???

(2) Do you need to create surfaces from existing meshes ??? Obtained, from Iges or Step conversion ???

(3) Will you have to work on existing native files ??? Which CADs... ???

(4) How much can you invest in money... ???

By,

Giuseppe Spinelli

well all depends what do you want to do. İf you aim working for a car design firm You want to learn alias if youre engineer and want to work for automotive industry learn catia. Every tool is suitable for drawing complex surfaces even solidworks. But if you want industry standards Alias and other A class surface capable CAD softwares are what you want.

https://onrdastan.myportfolio.com/audi-r8

Thanks for the suggestions. I have modelled the car with rhino. It took about a month to get fully comfortable with it (Rhino, including it's advance features - grasshopper).

I was only trying to design the external part of the BMW and I did just that about 2 weeks in.

well mate whats your intention? If you just want freely explore your design without depending on 2 much dimensions I strongly suggest you polygon modeling. It is really fast and once u get really good at it u can model anything, literally anything!

Rhino is a low budget nurb modeling tool and it does great job so u can see all around the web. But nurbs can be hard to deal with. On the other hand we have solid modeling which made for mainly engineers.

What do industry use? well they mainly use autodesk alias! What do add industry use for renders and animations? Autodesk Maya