Hi Bob, I do plan on adding functions for modular design in the future. Currently it's just not been the main focus.

MoI has been used very successfully in a teaching environment for kids with no previous CAD knowledge - really it's much better suited than Tinkercad for that, since the overall workflow in MoI allows you to focus more on drawing 2D curves and producing much of your design from those 2D curves which requires less 3D spatial reasoning than only requiring full 3D shapes to be placed around as in TinkerCAD.

Really one of the primary advantages of CAD modeling is being able to work at a 2D level for many things, and TinkerCAD's approach really just misses out on that entirely. With MoI working with curves is the fundamental focus.

You might want to get in touch with Tom Meeks, who is the one using MoI in a teaching environment for kids, focusing on use with 3D printing for "at risk" kids with no previous technical CAD experience.

Tom's blog is here: http://moiusers.blogspot.com/

He launched this Kickstarter for producing some materials for teachers using MoI, this may be what is of interest to you specifically:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1934437553/3d-thinklink-help-us-share-the-power-of-3d-printin

And here's a video he produced showing some of what they are doing using 3D printing and MoI in their classes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qLiIukEaG8

MoI much more resembles a regular CAD program than TinkerCAD - it should be really easy to tell the difference in what is able to be done with each just by looking at the galleries. TinkerCAD was basically designed by people who didn't have any CAD experience and it is only able to construct things out of polygonal objects, it doesn't use an object representation that is able to represent true curves and smooth surfaces which is a huge limitation.

You should be able to get a good idea of what's possible with MoI just by looking through the MoI gallery - it's easy to see a whole lot of stuff in there that would be exceptionally difficult to do in TinkerCAD because TinkerCAD can only construct very blocky chunky things by only combining primitive shapes. You need to be able to generate objects from curves in order to do more advanced shapes, and MoI provides many construction functions for using curves to form your models.



> MOI is an inspiring product that I'll continue to watch. Is there some way to be kept up to
> date about new product releases?

The best way is to just periodically check the website and discussion forum - sorry I do not have any newsletter or mailing list set up.


- Michael