Hi Roger, it sounds like you are up and running now - I'm glad that you are being productive in MoI!
> <...> but I have a job to do and a living to make and I can't spend ages learning software
> that never gets used.
This is one of the cooler aspects of MoI - it's easy enough to use that you don't need to invest a huge amount of time before you start being productive in it. This makes it a lot easier to use as a supplementary tool along side of your normal primary modeler.
For models that involve booleans or precision cuts, you can jump into MoI and create it really quickly and then get back to your main modeler.
> By the way, I need to be able to bend some text around a cylinder (for a bottle
> cap with text on the edge, like a coin). How do I bend stuff in MOI, I can't seem
> to find the bend tool?
MoI will be missing a bend tool for version 1.0. It is something that I want to add in the future but it is a fairly tricky area of work to make it function on solids (while maintaining joined edges between surfaces), so I'm not really sure when that will happen.
In the meantime you'll have to use another tool for bending and twisting type squishing. Normally I recommend Rhino V4 for doing those kinds of deformations - but I think that ViaCAD also has a bend tool as well, so that may be worth a try. You should be able to export from ViaCAD as IGES format to read the NURBS surfaces back into MoI.
> Keep up the good work Michael! You have another convert!
Thanks Roger! :)
Over time MoI should get more capabilities that will make it more applicable to bigger chunks of your work. For v1 MoI is focused on just doing more simple Booleaned type models really quickly.
- Michael
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