Hello I’m Jeff seeking to buy a 3D printer but first trying out the soft ware here to design things before I buy it is very hard to do what I desire most likely because on the free version they give me to use dose not have all the bells and whistles that I thought I’d get to design custom motorcycle…

Your profile says you are using SketchUp Pro 2020. Is that the 30-day trial? What bells and whistles are you thinking you need? There are loads of extensions available although before you even start looking at them, you should probably learn how to use the native tools. You could start with learn.sk…

Well I’d like to have where it creates geometry in triangles that I can adjust to flow into curves and rounded areas this one lacks the ability to do that I only have like 8 tools of things I can manipulate I want ovals it only gives me circles or half circles or a slighted curve.

[image] classic_swinger: …this one lacks the ability to do that… Clearly you need to spend some time learning how to use SketchUp. It is possible to make ovals and ellipses with just the native tools. There are extensions available that make it easy to draw non-circular curves, too. The elli…

Nice. Yeah time I was hoping to be able to take what I have like spent weeks in melting plastic together take some pics of what [image000000 (19)] I’ve’ designed so far and out line but trying to get it to measure exactly is difficult.

I can’t tell what it is but I’m sure that could be modeled in SketchUp. It’s definitely not a thing for a beginner who doesn’t know how to use the tools, though.

[image] Cotty's 3D printing adventures Gallery One of my first self-printed models is this wall mount for a mobile rounter that I’m using in my caravan… Cotty_router wall mount Aircard 785.skp (193.2 KB) Cotty_router wall mount Aircard 785.stl (515.6 KB) […

So I’m finding out. No wonder manufacturer’s take so long now to introduce new lines of Motorcycle designs to sell to the public but I would like it left up to the buyer to decide what they want Bigger saddle bags or smaller ones not to mention better area for larger speakers not what has to come e…

It sounds like you don’t want to learn how to use the tools to do the job. Maybe you should hire someone who has already done the learning to do the work for you.

Oh yeah here is the Front took 4 months to get these done with melting plastic together.[IMG_20190705_201953_01_01] Even like came up with adding LEDs into the build as i did it,

Nice. Aren’t the LEDs distracting when you are driving?

Having trouble here

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pbacot November 15, 2020, 6:37pm 7

You might check out this thread for some idea of 3d printing from SketchUp.

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