Hi All,

I am a very experienced SubD modeller (since early appearance in Lightwave), currently using Modo who, over the years has been
regularly frustrated by the non-cad limitations of said subd's. Many years ago I bought release 1 of Rhino but it was clumsy and counter-intuitive
to learn, and not good at organic stuff. My main line of work is bespoke bottle design, which you'd think subd's would be perfect for. However once
you start trying to add detail like screwcaps etc, you need cad accuracy, which subd's don't have, or booleans....ditto. So anyway, I saw MOI some months
ago after following a Frenchy link from the Amapi forum and liked the look of it a lot, except that I am a Mac user through and through so couldn't use it.(I have a PC, but I
hate the damn thing and never turn it on as it makes me want to hit stuff!). Ho Hum... But, now I have a shiny new 8 core intel mac and parallels 3 and whoop de doop!,
MOI runs lovely so long as I keep in quad view (no problem). I can export beautiful meshes to Modo for rendering and they work like a dream. Brilliant. So I printed out the
80 page manual to get stuck in.

Then.... and here's the point of this rambling post: I surfed over to Rhino's place to see just what was going on there, (while I was in nurbs mode and waiting for the printout).
That's where I discovered T-Splines. My god they look good, like nurby sub-d's. How cool is that. I could build my bottles in Subd mode and trim 'em up in nurb mode and they'd be cad accurate...wow! But, I still don't like the Rhino interface and neither do I like the combined cost of a rhino upgrade and t-spline plugin. So, should I get my head
around MOI and see if I can build my bottles here on the off-chance that maybe one day T-Splines will come to MOI? or, am I kidding myself and should I just go down
the Rhino route. Or maybe MOI is so good I'll never need t-splines??

Now I'm leaning towards MOI because of all the great things the users seem to be saying, but I have a job to do and a living to make and I can't spend ages learning software
that never gets used. I did that with ViaCAD, which seems great on first look but has some major shortfalls that renders it useless.

Any advice from users of both Rhino and MOI would be much appreciated, especially if they also have T-Splines.

cheers
Roger Harris