How to make tires in Sketchup?

[Damariss]

Hi everybody, I am almost new to the whole 3d world and just beginning to learn Sketchup, If I wanted to do a tire (off road type) how would you pull off the embossed tread patterns on it? Say I came up with a pattern is it possible to just copy paste it around the shape? Any information on how to do this the less painful way. Thanks in advance!

[Arkanjel]

Hi Damariss. Not sure if you have run across this website yet, but it pretty well covers everything you could want to learn about Sketchup.

SketchUp Sage (http://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/)

You should be able to find some links there to what you are looking for. If not you can try and look on Youtube some good stuff there.

[Damariss]

Thanks. I'll check it out!

[darkwolf29a]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=152603


Check this thread. It has a link to sketchucation and the Sketchup education site, which has a good tutorial.

[Damariss]

Thanks. I've seen the tutorial before, not exactly the kind of tire I had in mind but I might be able to tweak or toy around with Sketchup based off of his way...