Hi Leonard, your computer totally bombing out and freezing up pretty much suggests that you might be having some kind of hardware issue with your computer. Is there any chance your computer is overheating? Maybe pushed too close to a wall or has it gotten pretty choked up with dust?
You also might try updating your graphics driver to the latest version - typically a regular program works at a lower level of privilege in the operating system specifically so that it's not possible for an individual program to bring down the entire machine. But drivers work at a higher level of privilege and so any bugs in drivers (and video drivers are the most complex drivers on the machine by a large factor) are usually what are responsible when your entire machine freezes up.
re: Illustrator v10 versus v8 formats - there was a major change in Illustrator starting with v9 where it changed the .ai format from its previous structure into being the same as .pdf .
Previously MoI would have difficulty with some type of those "AI that are really PDF" files. But this should be greatly improved in the brand new v3 beta that I only released a couple of days ago, you can get it here: http://moi3d.com/beta.htm?rev=x
> they opened without any geometry and no file title at the top of the window.
It's totally normal for AI files to open without any file title at the top of the window (if you are referring to the top title bar of the main application window) - the only time the file title at the top of the window will change is when you open a 3DM file, that's because 3DM is the only format that MOI can actually store all of its data into. When you open a AI file that will not become the active file because if you added something like a sphere to your model after that and then tried to save, there is no way to actually save the whole sphere to AI format.
So that part at least with the file title not changing is normal and intended behavior...
- Michael
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