Hi Ola, MoI version 2.0 supports multiple cores for producing the export mesh.

It doesn't yet use them for the import part, where you are loading the IGES or STEP data into MoI, but after the model is loaded and you want to save to a mesh file format, during that phase all your CPU cores should be used.

There isn't anything special that you need to do inside of MoI itself to enable that, aside from using MoI v2. MoI v1 only uses 1 core.

Are you using v2 and not seeing multi-core use at export time for mesh generation? If so then possibly there is some setting within Boot Camp to enable multi-core or something like that.


One other thing that can help to reduce loading time is to set the display mesh resolution to be coarser within MoI. To do that go to Options > View > Meshing parameters and set Mesh angle to 25 degrees, and uncheck "Add detail to inflections". This controls the display mesh generation density, not export meshing, but if you have a coarser display mesh set it will help the initial load go somewhat faster and take up less memory once it is loaded.

Also one other thing to check is what version of Windows 7 you have - if you have the "Home Basic", or "Home Premium" versions, those only support one CPU socket - the CPU can be quad-core or dual-core or whatever but if you have 2 separate CPUs you need Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate version for Windows to enable use of the second socket.

- Michael