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From: 777RAVEN777
28 Oct   [#1]
Using v4 on win 11 & trying to get Max's CustomUI to work - I know there's a real simple trick to this - but can anyone please tell me which files go where?
Thx in advance :)
From: Michael Gibson
28 Oct   [#2] In reply to [#1]
Hi Raven, the CustomUI .zip file is named CustomUI.2.0.beta2.zip .

When you unzip it, there will be 3 folders, "customui", "objects", and "startup".

These need to be copied into the MoI app data folder.

You can open the MOI appdata folder by typing Win+R to bring up the windows "Run" dialog and type in %appdata%\Moi that will expand to a folder like C:\Users\<Your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Moi

Copy the "customui" and "objects" folder from the .zip file into there, so you have %appdata%\Moi\customui and %appdata%\Moi\objects.

Then for the "startup" folder there will already be a folder for that in appdata so go into the startup folder from the .zip and copy all the contents of it into the already existing %appdata%\Moi\startup folder.

- Michael
From: 777RAVEN777
28 Oct   [#3] In reply to [#2]
Ah. I knew it was that simple.
Thanks again Michael :)
From: 777RAVEN777
28 Oct   [#4] In reply to [#3]
Just one more question - I notice some folks have sub-folders in their libraries - does this version support that? If so, how are they set up?

Cheers :)
From: Michael Gibson
28 Oct   [#5] In reply to [#4]
HI Raven, it doesn't support sub folders but it does support having multiple library folders.

To enable that there is a file "ObjLibrary.cfg.htm" to edit inside the %appdata%\Moi\customui folder.

It starts out with this:

Object Library;MOI\objects

You can add a line to set up additional library folders, like this:

Object Library;MOI\objects
Obj lib 2;MOI\objects2

That's display name first then a semi-colon then path. If you have a path with spaces in it you may need to put quotes " " around it.


Also the v5 beta supports displaying thumbnail images for .3dm files so you can just use the regular operating system file browser as an object library.

- Michael
From: 777RAVEN777
28 Oct   [#6] In reply to [#5]
Magic as always - thanks so much Michael :)

Is there a limit to how many library folders it will handle?
From: Michael Gibson
28 Oct   [#7] In reply to [#6]
Hi Raven,

re:
> Is there a limit to how many library folders it will handle?

Nope, no limit.

- Michael