As a Mac user who always has a Terminal window open (because a UNIX shell is such a powerful working environment) I find it helpful to define a command alias to launch MoI. One common use is when I want to have multiple instances of MoI running so that I can quickly switch back & forth between models.

To enable this, add an alias to your shell's profile (either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile depending on which shell you're using):

alias moi='open -b com.moi3d.MoI'

With the alias defined, typing "moi <filename>" at the shell prompt launches a new instance of MoI to open the given file. Note that using the -b bundle_identifier option rather than -a application uses the most recently installed version of MoI. If the application name was used the alias would need to be updated for each new beta...

--Larry

Thanks Larry. It's handy to have a faster way to open multiple instances.

- Peer

Hi Larry,

You got me thinking: is there a way to do File > Open or File > New so that an additional instance of MoI is launched rather than having to close the currently open document?

- Peer

Hi Peer, on the "MoI v4" or "MoI v5 beta" menu at the top of the screen there is a "New Window" menu item.

You can use that to open a new instance and then inside the new instance use File > Open.

- Michael

Hey, how cool is that? Another little gem I'd not yet noticed. Thanks Michael!!

I'm glad that the command alias is also helpful Peer.

--Larry

Thanks Michael! MoI is so self-contained that I wouldn't have guessed that the system menu bar actually does something, but now I see that I can also use it to switch between instances which is really nice.

- Peer