Mazda 3 Wide Body? | Creating a wide body kit using Fusion 360 Forms for a Mazda 3

[@level-upengineering5813]

Another great upload! Been on fusion for years but moving into mesh and surface modelling to complete some more complicated design products. Your videos have been incredibly helpful!

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@tonysmith7702]

Very nice and very informative. Thanks for the video Matt.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

My pleasure!

[@dulguun917]

just subscribed the video was very helpful can you make more videos on 3rd gen mazda 3?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

What did you have in mind? This was a request someone sent me and they also sent the model.

[@nikolaoskousoulas]

Whats the actual workflow requierments for this to start? Do I need to have my car in surface? mesh? or what exactly should I convert to before I start doing that? Thanks...

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Lucky for you I have a playlist just for that :) kzbin.info/aero/PLBDfGh8A8kXVvKBJ4UudhVLKlPdumAg5P If you had a model of your car as a surface that would offer up some different solutions. In most cases you don't have actual CAD data and we use a scanned Mesh as the input. The car in this video was sent to me and was modeled and not scanned, but the one in the playlist as well as many others on this channel are from scan data. You can tell usually by looking at the mesh triangles.

[@nikolaoskousoulas]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign You are a genius. I will check your playlist right away. I have both scanned and modeled design files of my car. Which do you suggest to strart with?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@nikolaoskousoulas If your plan is to make parts, i would use the Scan. If you are just trying to do some concept work and want renders or images and don't need to make physical parts, the modeled design might be better if you plan to render or something. I have both scanned and modeled my car from images and blueprints. The modeled version is close and a 3d printed flare "might" fit ok but not great. details will not be to scale and some parts that are critical to a design may be lost.

[@nikolaoskousoulas]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Trying to make parts but not for directly use. I want to make some wide "overfenders" to glue them on to my original and then smoothen them up and make moulds out of them. Composites is my profession but designing is something new for me!

[@yanzink.a2412]

How do you make this in other side? You use mirror? Help me please

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Yes you just mirror it. Depending on the vehicle you might have to modify one side for things like a fuel door but cars are mirrored so only model as little as you need to.

[@bakonamohb3187]

Just wanna ask: where did you get the model from please? And in which format? Thanks

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Hi Bakonamo. it was provided by a subscriber that asked me to make the widebody video. He paid to scan his car I believe.

[@shoxruxmirzaev7527]

bro please chewrolet cobalt edit bro please

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

If you can find me a good scan/mesh to use I can add it to the list :)

[@abuluqman1646]

Hello! Can you modelling wide body kit for Mercedes-Benz W209? Prior Design wide body kit

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

I don't have any plans to do another widebody in the near future sorry. I have a bit too much on my plate.

[@abuluqman1646]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign i can pay you for job

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@abuluqman1646 you can email me at [e-mail] and we can discuss it but it will likely be way more expensive than trying to find a prior designs kit off someone. I think new those kits were a few grand, and the design time alone for a one-off will cost more than that. Doing a "rough" widebody in an hour is much different than something that has the fit and finish and is ready to produce.

[@lilstorm1879]

Can you make a widebody kit for a 2014 chevy cruze Lt?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Probably not. The next widebody I do is for my own car and it will be a good bit of time. I have made enough videos on how to do it that you should give it a shot. That is not a car I assume anyone has done. You would need a mesh/scan of the car to get started.

[@lilstorm1879]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign how much would it cost for you to make me one ?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@lilstorm1879 To properly design an entire body kit off a high quality scan we are talking hundreds of hours of time to do it right. Even on the low end I would say $5000 would be just in the time to design. What you see on the screen here generally represents 1-2hr "rough in" of a design. Designing a 1 off body kit is a "labor of love" :) and there are a lot of details past just the initial looks you see on the screen. I have loads of videos on how to model car bodies and how to model a few different style fender flares and body parts in the MR2 series, tesla there are others. I did a quick search and found some companies made kits for that car but are no longer available. Not sure how hard it would be to find one but if that company still has their original molds it might be cheaper to buy molds from them and make your own from that.

[@alexis2moustakas742]

for you, friend, what is the name of this program

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Autodesk Fusion 360. www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview

[@Willllotus]

How can i get one of my car? I wanna 3d print a kit in my house.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

kzbin.info/aero/PLBDfGh8A8kXVvKBJ4UudhVLKlPdumAg5P First you have to scan your car, then design it :)

[@Willllotus]

I have an exact 3d model already. Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try.

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@Willllotus If your 3d model was made from blueprints be careful, it should be a 3d scan if you want the new parts to fit. While models made from blueprints can look very accurate, often times they are off enough to not work.

[@Willllotus]

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign I got it off of turbosquid, so pretty similar site. But what I plan to do is model a small piece for the front panel and test print to see if it is actual size. Before doing a whole body panel

[@almoutasimaladawi5152]

Can you make for my car?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Sorry I don't have the time to model any more widebodies other than the project I will be presenting in the coming months. There are enough videos on this channel to teach you how to model the entire car. Feel free to ask questions!

[@jensensphotography4570]

Is there anyway to watch this video at normal speed? Im trying to watch it at 0.5x speed haha

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Some of these speed videos I did because the users shared the mesh but didn't want the mesh model shared to others. So i never did a slow version of this. I have other car modeling and widebody videos. there is a whole series from 3d scan to part design. We also did a few on a 4th gen mr2. or were you looking specifically for the Mazda 3?

[@jensensphotography4570]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign i have seen the others, this one also has good value that i can watch just to see how you went with this car. there isnt any way to see the original video of just the forms being done is there?

[@jensensphotography4570]

i do love the videos man. im currently working on a sketchfab model of my car which is the Kia cerato/forte GT. i have done the front and rear fenders but now i want to make another version and start a different look of it. then eventually be able to do like splitters and even front and rear bumpers. idk why but i keep trying to find other software to do this kinda modelling but i feel fusion 360 is the best with the UI where blender and other ones look hella confusing. plus i look the cad style too

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@jensensphotography4570 send me an email [e-mail] and ill find a way for you to watch the video in realtime.

[@imsorry6342]

where do you get stl files for these cars?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Well, in a lot of these videos they come from requests where the user sends me the mesh. In several cases it was either scanned by them or paid for scans of their cars, which is why I don't provide them. There are free car models on websites like SketchFab. These are generally modeled and not scanned though, so it depends on what you want to do. sketchfab.com/search?q=free+car&type=models

[@JohnDoe-eh7vm]

How do I scan my vehicle into fusion?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

I will have some videos coming soon to look at the process. You need some sort of scanner. Some people use Photogrammetry, some use hobby grade scanners like the RevoPop. You need to scan into a scan software, align and then bring the mesh into Fusion 360. There isn't a way to scan directly into Fusion.

[@danielhejira899]

How to transform to actual car size ?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

The mesh you start with should be the size of the car. If it is then your parts will also be the right size.

[@gabrielroza7181]

Its possible make this in free version and impress?

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

As far as I know there are no restrictions to the forms or mesh import tools in the free/hobby version of Fusion 360, so yes.

[@gabrielroza7181]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Thank you!! You helped me a lot, so is it possible to export to stle print in full size?

[@gabrielroza7181]

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign I used sketchup, apparently I'm going to change hahaha

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

@@gabrielroza7181 Yes you can export and STL. Fusion also has a manufacture workspace which lets you program CNC mills, lathes, and use it as a slicer to generate code for 3D printing too.

[@SpeedyGonzales95]

Now sell us the body kit 🤣

[@mattiasarvidsson8522]

now create a fully functional car instead of this empty shell..

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

Lol, mazda already did that ;) I am not interested in spending hundreds of hours modeling an entire car. I am doing a very detailed model of one of my cars as a personal project but I am probably 100+hrs in and still not done with the outside. It takes so much time that it is not a youtube video kind of thing.

[@fusestation2839]

Westcoast custom design cars using 3D now?.....you guys just waste your time, just used Photoshop or something similar with it....Rocket Bunny is different cause they produce design body kits for cars, ofcuz they using 3D.....for West coast customs each your customer come with various model of cars...so you need to spend all your money to buy high poly model for their cars or else you gonna recreate model cars for them...it gonna stress a lot cause it take couple of day only for modeling the cars.... futhermore your imagination not gonna be wild free when you do that.... I'm using trig stylus....if my sketch look worse I'm gonna blame windows trig for theirs product, but if you used an apple stylus and your sketch look really worse there no room you can blame~

[@LearnEverythingAboutDesign]

um I have zero clue what you are talking about here :)