It`s a while since I`ve been here last time. I came few days ago and I read that MoI v5 will have ACIS kernel in some modeling commands.

Wow. It`s a super idea.

I use Rhino + Xnurbs and Plasticity with Xnurbs (parasolid) and having also MoI3d with ACIS kernel and your amazing your GUI is a wonderful thing IMO.

Thanks for that Michael.
Could you tell me when could I expect final release of v5 (to buy upgrade)?
I will buy it with pleasure.

When Rhino fillets fail and I have no time to be a detective and find tiny problems then Plasticity (Parasolid kernel) was my answer. It helped me few times with tight time.
Now I feel happy that I will also could try ACIS modeling tools inside my favorite MoI3d GUI.

Will it be possible to use ctrl+c ctrl+v between MoI3d v5 and Rhino v8?

What modeling commands will have ACIS kernel behind?

Cheers!!

Hi mdesign, welcome back to the forum!


re:
> Could you tell me when could I expect final release of v5 (to buy upgrade)?
> I will buy it with pleasure.

I don't have a firm date set yet but hopefully not too long. Maybe a few more months.


> Will it be possible to use ctrl+c ctrl+v between MoI3d v5 and Rhino v8?

No not by default because unfortunately with every new release Rhino drops support for versions lower than the previous one for copy and paste.

So Rhino v8 can only read a v7 3DM file from the clipboard even though it is able to load all earlier .3dm versions from regular File > Open.

However I set up a utility program that can convert a .3dm file in the clipboard between v5 and v7 formats so it's then possible to make copy/paste work by running the utility program when doing ctrl+c or ctrl+v.

You can get that here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9890.18


> What modeling commands will have ACIS kernel behind?

Currently it's on the Fillet and Chamfer commands. I also want to use it for some other things like offset, shell, and direct modeling face transforms but those may not happen in the MoI v5 time frame, not sure yet.

- Michael

Thanks, it`s good to see you keep things going forward.

As for me I would love to see fillet, offset and shell all together with ACIS because those operation fails in Rhino most often. So even having still errors but different ones could help me to fix those errors quicker if time is tight.

Have you thought about some rebuild edges, surfaces or matchcrv, matchsrf took from ACIS (if it`s possible to take it from kernel)?

ACIS has also some skinning operations which could be also helpful (maybe I`m wrong, maybe your current are better, that is open question).

Cheers!!

Hi mdesign,

re:
> Have you thought about some rebuild edges, surfaces or matchcrv,
> matchsrf took from ACIS (if it`s possible to take it from kernel)?

Unfortunately MatchCrv and MatchSrf are not really part of the regular Mechanical CAD toolset so ACIS doesn't have these in it.

- Michael

Have you thought about some poll for MoI users to check which most favorite/useful commands from ACIS could be transfered to MoI3d? Offset and shell are my favorite together with fillet. That`s because I have with them most problems. Sometimes If I have problems with Rhino then I try in Plasticity or Solid Edge if it would fail too, then I would have another kernel to check.

I know that best would be correct surfaces but sometimes when I have not enough time changing kernel is a solution to save some time and have job done and It saved me few times.

Hi mdesign, I do want to use offset and shell from ACIS as well, I'm still working on fillet first right now.

- Michael

Have you tried IronCAD ? It makes use of both math kernels - ACIS + Parasolid !
https://community.ironcad.com/index.php?/topic/16565-dual-geometric-modelling-kernels-kernel-collaboration-examples/
Best regards
Ken