MoI for Architectual modeling

 From:  Michael Gibson
428.12 In reply to 428.11 
> Any chace for MoI here to get in the lead?:-)

Not for V1, I'm afraid - it will take some extra work to intersect and miter the corners for this type of a thing.

This thread mentions some work-arounds: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=297.1

The easiest method at the moment is to use 2 rails, and you can also place the shape away from the rails and use "auto-placement mode":






So that's a pretty easy workaround method.

For sweeping, if you have the sweep profiles placed so that they are outside of the bounding box of the rail curves, it will automatically move them into position - you can even do this with multiple profiles, just arrange them roughly left to right flat on the plane and it will space them evenly along the sweep rails for you. If the profiles are inside of the bounding box of the shape it will not re-position them and just take them as you have placed them.

So for many simple sweeps in MoI you don't need to bother to rotate or place the profile perpendicular to the rail, just draw it flat on the plane a little bit away from it and it does it for you - this works nicely for construction history too since it is easier to edit the profiles that are flat on the plane to get history updates...

- Michael