Hi Anis - no that full sequence is not possible.

The initial 3 steps are fine - that will work.

But specifically step #4 and #5 that you describe will not work. (the part about bringing it back into MoI at the end).


Once you have exported the data out of MoI as a polygon data file, it is no longer the kind of data that MoI can work on directly. 3D Coat does not work on NURBS data like MoI does, instead it works on polygon data.

After you are done working on the data in 3D Coat, the result is not a kind of data that can be loaded back into MoI, you would just view it in 3D coat or if you want to bring it into another program you would bring it into a polygon modeling program like Modo or Silo.

Since MoI is not a polygon modeling program, you cannot bring polygon mesh data into it, MoI works instead on an entirely different kind of data (NURBS surface data).

Once you have exported as polygons out of MoI then you won't be able to bring that data back in again, it is a completely different kind of data.

Note - just because you cannot bring that final data back into MoI at the end does not mean that you cannot use it to manufacture with.

Like I mentioned previously as a first step contact your mold maker and see if they can work with polygon data (for example STL or OBJ files) or not.

- Michael