As your son is interested in Creative Auto body design that means he wants to be a Automobile/Transportation Designer.
The first thing is he should have basic drawing/sketching skills and i assume he should be having them.If not he can still join a art school and learn the basics.Art center...
I better to use Alias or Rhino3D softwares ....as they not only read iges formats ....but also have a far larger choice of rendering option , as opposed to other 3D softwares like Pro-e or solid works which are no way near to the alias/rhino softwares when it comes to rendering.
Also one more...
hi marah,
I think it is better if you can buy some books from automobile booksellers like <www.motorbooks.com>,<www.amazon.com> ,or some local book sellers in your place ....since there are a whole lot of books titled on "setting up a auto garage"..where the authors have written...
hi ,
From your query what i understand is that you need to have a multi-mode engine management control in your car..alike sport-city-eco mode like wise.....one user friendly software/ecu kit i have come in wintec from <www.getfuelinjected.com>where you can download their free software...