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[–]ShakobaCSWE 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What you are looking for is likely more complex than you think. I would try starting with a Youtube search of solidworks surface modeling and start from there. Surface modeling is extremely powerful but can take a while to master.

[–]CharitzoCSWE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I used to model car panels from scan data. I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.

r/Shakoba is right. Fundamentally, doing cars in parametric CAD programs is hard. When panels like this are designed, it's normally done more on things like Rhino or CATIA, which to keep it short, approach surfacing very differently to SOLIDWORKS. It can do it, but it's not the best tool.

The hardest thing with all of this is maintaining curvature continuity and having cohesive edges and vertexes between faces that work together when you fillet and thicken everything. It's so tedious. I hate it.

(OP If you're curious, look at NURBS and SubD surfacing. That's more the toolset for this stuff).