Thanks again for your rapid reply.

I fully understand where MoI fits in the greater scheme of things and think that it's great you've developed such an accessible Nurbs modeller in first place. The only reason I ask about instancing in particular is that I wasn't sure where it sits on the development plan.

To be clear IDEO isn't an engineering design house, we're a multi-disciplinary design consultancy - http://www.ideo.com/about/ .The part that I run is mainly staffed by people from VFX & gaming. We mainly use the tools of those industries and apply them to design consultancy projects so my team are far more at home with Max, Maya, Modo & C4D than they are with CAD toolsets. As you're probably well aware MoI is very appealing to this type of individual as it provides accurate CAD modelling without the complexities of traditional CAD software and is a great complementary tool to polygon modellers (in a large part because it exports such usable geometry for texturing and rendering pipelines).

I myself have used a variety of modelling technologies over the last 20 years, so my knowledge of CAD tools is a little deeper than many in my team but I'm still far more at home in C4D & Modo. We've changed our way of working recently because of our adaption of FormZ which enables us model with far greater flexibility and adaptability. Traditional polygon (of Nurbs) tools don't allow us to rapidly adapt our models the way we can with FormZ. However as I mentioned in my first message, FormZ exports unusable geometry and it's native rendering/animation capabilities are very weak. It's for this reason I've been looking at integration tools for our pipeline that can take IGES or SAT files and make them ready for Max, Maya, C4D etc. But being a creative studio I ideally wanted a tool that creatives warmed to which isn't necessarily Rhino!

I still believe that we're likely to purchase a few MoI licenses for the studio, especially for individual modelling projects that can be completed more efficiently with a Nurbs modeller but it is likely at this stage that Rhino will be a better fit for our pipeline tasks.

I really look forward to seeing how MoI develops in the coming years.

Cheers,

jm