Is there any motorcycle tutorial.

em4fun · 17 Oct 2010, 11:30

hello everyone, im using sketchup for a few years, I used it for making game-modifications, mostly it were fire trucks, (here is my 3d warehouse account: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=1755711722844912479514954&scoring=m

Now I have a bike in real life and I love to make it in sketchup, but its real harder then moddeling a car or truck, I tried a few times but every time it results in a fail, so here is my question: is there any tutorial for modeling a bike? or could someone make one?

greetings, carlo

em4fun · 17 Oct 2010, 13:08

@numbthumb said:

Hi, carlo and welcome!
I assume that you have already gained some experience in car and truck modeling, from setting up bluperints to basic SU operations and different kind of plugins.
You are more likely to get a useful response if you are explicit about what exactly resulted in a fail.
Regards,
NT

just the shape, I cant get it into the right shape, I cant explain it very well,but the main problem is that my bike has a lot of curves compared with a car or a truck,

numbthumb · 17 Oct 2010, 13:46

Yes, they are sure less "squary" than those trucks
There are some plugins you might want to consider:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28586&hilit=plugin&start=0

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=25362&hilit=plugin

(www.smustard.com)

(www.tensile-structures.de)

It looks like motorcycle modeling tuts are scarce, but there are some excellent car modeling tuts like these http://ely862me.webs.com/tutorials.htm that might give you some ideas of modeling such curved, "organic" shapes.
And there are also plenty of bikes and bike parts - engines, frames, etc - on 3DWH, so try downloading some of them and see how they were built.

em4fun · 17 Oct 2010, 16:35

thanks i will try it again

numbthumb · 26 Oct 2010, 07:30

Hi, carlo and welcome!
I assume that you have already gained some experience in car and truck modeling, from setting up blueprints to basic SU operations and different kind of plugins.
You are more likely to get a useful response if you are explicit about what exactly resulted in a fail.
Regards,
NT

Saksham Sahgal · 4 Apr 2016, 07:22

yeah i have a tutorial on How to make a MOTORBIKE (kavasaki ER-6 ninja 650 - R) in SKETCHUP!
here is the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELtX14gb6i0