Hi this is my first post here, and might be a very un-ethical because I asked the same question in Rhino newsgroup :/ really sorry for that... but I started this project in MOI but then moved to Rhino because I thought I needed to use the UDT tools in there, but the seem quite cumbersome and difficult to work with.

So here is the question:

OK, So I got this metal ornaments that will be cut with a waterjet, I guess
it will be a aluminum sheet.

The problem I have, is that I need to render this!, now rendering this flat
is no problem, but the users are suppose to bend the branches of the tree,
to make it more organic.

How the heck is the best way for me to do this?, I am not only working with
this tree(really just for question purpose) but a lot of patterns cut in
a sheet metal that the user is suppost to bend to make organic.

I have tried using UDT tools, like BEND but I guess that is not the right
tools, than I have tried CAGE EDIT, and that works better but in a complex
pattern it's hard to deform just the part you want, I hope you are catching
my drift here:)

so please any help or pointers would be soooooo appreciated!
Anna.

P.S.

Moi is one fantastic piece of software, its so nice to work in, I just enjoy it so much. I guess I am like many, that has a rendering licence tied to Rhino, and of course Rhino is great, but comparing it to MOI it's like really showing it's age somehow, I can't describe it better than that.

and sorry again for posting this here as a copy from Rhino newsgroup.