beginner question about backdrop planes

 From:  Michael Gibson
5656.6 In reply to 5656.5 
Thanks for the kind words Paulo!

And yes, MoI is really oriented around the idea of reducing distractions while you are modeling. Stuff like the display looking nice, avoiding popping up dialogs in your face and things like that are some of the ingredients that bring back that "fun" factor. Basically things are more fun when there is less of a feeling like you're at some kind of battle with the software, struggling with it to try and find the right tool, or answer the dialog that just popped up over top of your work, or whatever... When you're able to make progress more rapidly to make stuff on screen match the current plan of what you want to do that's in your head, that tends to make for happy modeling.

Of course that's not to say that you won't have battles with MoI too! :) But it's a big overall goal to try and reduce that kind of feeling as much as I can. That's what makes MoI pretty different from other CAD software. Be careful - it's very addictive! Once you get fully "into the groove" of working with MoI you can end up a lot more frustrated using other software than you were before... ;)

But it's also not bad to use MoI and Rhino in combination with one another, you can use copy and paste to move objects back and forth between them, and do more of your interactive drawing in MoI and bring stuff into Rhino to use particular specialized tools in there.

- Michael