Please feel free to share. It is meant for people having no experience at all with 3D design. But, I will continue to add projects to help form an educational community over the long haul.
Thanks for this. I've only watched a handful of the videos, but already I've learned several things and really appreciate the style including "nouns and verbs." I've often looked for specific function videos ( something a little more interactive than included MoI help file ) and this courseware seems to fit that bill very well.
Let me know how it goes and please feel free to ask for specific coverage of a topic if I have not gotten to it yet. It's a long-term project and I do plan some live sessions in the future.
Frenchy, can you move this out of this thread? I see you posted it in the "Funny things outside" thread as well and that is really where it should be, not hijacking this thread on MOI training content....
No problem it was just for alert TMeeks about this prog who is very adapted for the persons with some difficulties!
("one Click" family)
As he has seen it now i can hide it! ;)
I welcome criticism aimed at improving the course for new users. The great thing about posting on YouTube is that I can easily replace and/or insert sessions as needed to make it more effective.
I will be shortening the repetitive openings to move things quicker.
I welcome your help. I am moving the long Noun and Verb intro out of the playlist and into the regular Youtube page and replacing it with a shorter version that moves more quickly.
Thanks for this. I’ve been trying to decide on a secondary CAD program but still learning my way around MOI3D to see if it can work for me. I can’t believe the amount of work you did for this and I think it will help those who are new to this world of Nurbs CAD stuff. I wish I had courses like this in other software I still am learning.
I think you may like what I am working on right now to add to the front end of the course. I'm calling it the "Noun-Verb Quickstep" which will be a quick walk through some noun + Verb combinations that demonstrate just how quickly things can be created in MOI3D.
I just plain enjoy working in Moment of Inspiration and I also appreciate what it has done in the lives of some kids who learned how to become more resilient by working with MOI3D. I hope teachers will be able to learn from this course and pass on the benefits to their students.
Hello Tom. This is my first post on the forum and I'm looking to find a cad with more features than the simple Autodesk 123D which I mostly use at the moment. I've tried Fusion 360 which is easy to learn, but the cloud business model and cost for commercial use really turns me off. I've been looking at Plasticity but it's not intuitive and also Selfcad which really has a great looking, easy to use workspace much like 123D, but I can't get it to work so far. Their support says it should work, but no luck so far.
So the only other software I can find (and I've searched a lot) which isn't loads of money, looks possibly easy to learn with great features is MOI. Having said that, seeing words like "boolean", "nouns" and "verbs" (why programming and language grammar?) I start to think this isn't for me as I need an intuitive, easy to understand workflow software with basic descriptive words like "merge", "subtract", "snap to" etc... Ok, I'm not a complete beginner and have designed many items which I currently sell around the world, but I find words like "boolean" difficult to understand and it's an indication the workflow might be focused on engineers and uni grads, far beyond me. This isn't a complaint, just saying I'm not very smart and have learning difficulties.
Anyway having said that, I really do need/want a new cad, one that I'll be using for many years. I think this YouTube course you made will be exactly what I need to help determine if MOI is for me. I'm sure there will be a steep learning curve, but I'll give it a go for my trial period. I haven't started the trial yet as was thinking maybe to wait for V5 to get the best experience without the current bugs, filleting for example. The trial and your videos will be the deciding factors to determine if I go with MOI, do you think I should wait to try V5?
What a great post. It is exactly what I need to understand how to communicate the ease and power of MOI3D in terms that aren't masked in jargon that we only learn after-the-fact.
It's important to point out that the people I have been engaged in teaching for the past decade were either teenage high school dropouts or those with challenges related to being on the autism-spectrum. This experience tells me that MOI3D has a unique learning path that I believe has to do with the visual menu system as apposed to the standard Windows dropdown system.
Interestingly, I was working with Tinkercad last night because I am teaching first and second graders one day a week right now. It hit me as I was reviewing their work just how much faster and easier it actually is to use MOI3D once you get beyond just dragging pre-made objects into the working area. MOI3D is a LOT more fun than Tinkercad when it comes to actually trying to design something.
I was initially disappointed that Udemy rejected my course because I was forced to use AI voices; but, the more I think about it, the more I realize that relying on a YouTube Playlist gives me greater flexibility to add or change sessions to better respond to great suggestions like you have described.
After all, who DOES use Booleon DIFF to mean subtract in their everyday life??? Not many, that's for sure.
Thank you so much for your contribution to this thread.
As for whether or not to wait for V5, my own prejudice would be to go for V4 because while their are definitely some added capabilities in V5, you will be in a much better place to take advantage of them having worked with MOI3D for a while. V5 will not radically change the way you use MOI3D.
However, you can always just watch the videos, if you intend to wait, to get a feel for what to expect. And, get a feel for what to ask for in future sessions. I am in this for the long haul... at least as long a haul as any 79 year old has! LOL!
Thinking that the YouTube Tutorial playlist might want to get added to the resources page on the wiki since there are some other great tutorials there as well, would fit right in.
