Layers and DXF

 From:  Michael Gibson
1168.2 In reply to 1168.1 
Hi Moka,

> It would also be good if 3d meshes would at least be imported as wireframe
> lines, to be able to use them as a reference.

You can achieve this one now by using the converter program that I wrote - that will allow you to convert a polygon mesh .obj file into a .3dm file. You can then load the .3dm file into MoI - the .3dm file contains line segments that make up the wireframe of the polygon mesh.

See here for more info: http://moi3d.com/wiki/Resources#Obj23dmWireframe_converter


re: layers & DXF I/O, these should be a big focus for MoI version 2.0 .

It will take me a fair amount of time to work on the layers type mechanism, because I want to see if I can combine what are usually a couple of different mechanisms like groups and layers, into one single organization mechanism, with some more flexibility than regular layers provides.

I just didn't have enough time to work on designing that for version 1.0.

It's pretty much at the top of the list for v2 though, I think it will probably happen pretty early in the v2 beta cycle.

- Michael