@sketchykev said:

Hi angy,

I'm afraid 'sand' might be too much for most computers to handle, so I have attached a model with a load of bricks that can be offloaded instead. I hope your son finds it inspirational and it spurs him on to greater things. Perhaps he might like to have a go at animating the wheels?

LOL, i am impressed

thanks for that..I will show him what it can do, He was pissed off with me this today because somehow the sketchyphics joint windows disappeared from the screen. I have to uninstall and reinstall it for him. I truly appreciate what you and Frankso have done. I want him to move from static design to "motion" design. I believe then he has to think of the mechanics of how things work.

I also hope others will use my son's primitive truck design and share it with their children.

@fransko said:

little joke with the dump truck

Fransko

My son's jaw drop to the ground when he saw it.

He said he wants to "put" sand on it and see what happens.

My usual answer to him is "show me"

SketchyKev,

you are a champion. Thanks for your help. I will print out your instructions and gave him the tutorial as well.

Hi all

Greetings from New Zealand

My autistic son, Marcus, loves drawing cars on sketchup. All he draws are cars, cars and more cars. I introduced him to Sketchyphysics and now it is about cars crashing into cars. yes, more cars. I have attached a truck that he drew.

He is not very good academically, so i was thinking maybe, just maybe he can grow his skills in sketchup and make a living out of it.

I wanted him to draw more than just cars. So, one day, i give him challenge. Why not draw me a windmill? He did, however, the windmill failed to spin.

Can anyone of you help him out please? I have attached it below, his windmill that failed to spin. thanks in advance

windmill.skp

dump truck.skp

here is the windmill that he tried to get it working, but failed

windmill.skp

All,

thanks for the reply.

I like to thank Jeff for the google spectrum link. I will show my son on the weekend

I see that I can upload an attachment. I will upload it later. Hopefully someone can solve it for my son's windmill challenge.

Greetings from New Zealand

I know nuts about Sketchup but my son does. My son Marcus is autistic and he just love sketchup. I downloaded the apps about 1 year ago and he learnt how to use through youtube. All my son draw is cars, cars and more cars. Although it is not advanced design, but he enjoyed it. The reason he is "good" at it, is because he "visualize" things in 3D. Since he was 4 years old, he draw cars in 3D.

He loves to download from the 3d warehouse where he downloaded the cities and then export cars into the road. He just loved it.

Recently, I downloaded sketchy physics, and he was like on drugs. He was furious that he cannot get his cars moving, but after watching a youtube demostration and some figuring out, he got it. Now it is about cars and sketchyphyics on sketchup

I want to extend his knowledge about sketchup and would like to see how far he can do. last week, I said to him "draw me a windmill, or else, i will delete sketchy physics". He hated that and start designing. However, he failed. He got the design correct, he got the concepts correct, but somehow it does not work. He placed all the hinges in place but when he "press" the play button, the windmill did not turn.

I have 2 requests
a. is it possible that I upload it somewhere and some kind souls can "fix" it to get it working?
b. what other plug in should i download for him to play? Something that you know that helps you to grow your interest and your kind of work.

He has classical autism and is very slow in processing at school. What I want to do, is to grow his interest, and maybe if he is good at it in the future, he can made a career out of it. Thanks for reading and if you can help to answer my two questions, my sincere thanks

Angy