Hi Burr,

> But I thought I just heard you say that MoI's new Styles
> will do this same things for my 3dm files by assigning
> some kind of "Material attribute" that Hypershot is
> looking for???

Yup, that's what the goal is - that Styles in MoI will become material assignments in an .obj file that you write out.

I'm not quite sure what the deal will be with trying to read in 3DM directly into Hypershot though... For that route I think that the styles will translate as layers and I think that will also let Hypershot see them but I'm not quite as sure about that part.

The problem with exporting as 3DM into Hypershot is that then you're relying on Hypershot's mesher to convert NURBS data into meshes. That works pretty much ok for a lot of things, but if you run into problems on more complex models you'll probably want to export as .obj out from MoI because then you'll be using MoI's mesher to convert from NURBS into polygons.

- Michael