Shelling

 From:  Michael Gibson
1573.12 In reply to 1573.11 
Hi Paul,

> Can I import an STL model into MoI and then create a drape surface or
> reverse engineer (like rhino reverse) some nurbs surfaces from the mesh ??

No, sorry - MoI doesn't import polygon data.

The closest thing to that right now would be to convert from STL into OBJ format, then use the OBJ to 3dm Wireframe converter here to convert the polygon wireframe into line segments in a .3dm file which can then be loaded into MoI.

MoI is much more intended to be a tool that you use to create objects from scratch, and not as a reverse engineering tool.

Probably at some point in the future when MoI supports plug-ins (maybe for version 3.0?) someone might make a reverse engineering plug-in or something. But until then it just is not the right tool for that kind of a job.

- Michael