Speak of the devil, Pilou! :-0

"Ixlrlxi" ("600V") and his strange retro cars is the reason why I'm here today!

I was looking for inspiration for a tee-shirt design that I was working on and needed pics of old cars - and I found one of his blogs.

He made 3D design look too easy, whipping these shiny cars up in SketchUp. And he told me he uses no plug-ins, just the native tools.

So I've spent the last two years trying my hand at many different trials of 3D design software.

I didn't get very far with 3Ds Max, and Rhino was too tricky at the time, with too much need for use of the command line.

SketchUp showed a lot of promise and a good community to offer solutions. It is still a worthy investment.

MoI however, has simply opened a huge door and I've realized that there is something satisfying about mechanical and product design that NURBS lends itself too.

So yes, that guy with the cars showed me that I can design in the third dimension.