Hi guneriussen, I'm glad that you are enjoying using MoI!

> Are you going to implement "sharp corner" sweeps?

Yeah, having mitered corners for one-rail sweeps is definitely going to happen for v2.

But it will be for making actual sharp corners, it won't make rounded corners like your final result in your attachment.

Actually for rounded corners it is possible to do that in MoI right now, you've just got to round the path curve first before doing the sweep. Here's an example:

Select your path curve:



Then run Construct / Fillet. At the prompt that says "Select corners, or push done to do all", press Done or right-click to do all the corners, then pick a radius. That will fillet the corners of your path to make it look like this:



Now you can select your square, run Construct / Sweep, and then select the rounded-corner path as the sweep rail, to create this sweep in one go:




So if you need a rounded corner result, put the rounded corners in the path first and then your construction will have that all set up.

The part that I need to add for v2 is when you don't want rounded corners at the finish, but instead want sharp mitered corners at the end.



> Would you recommend it as a supplement in the modelling
> department, or will Moi V2 suffice for large scene management.

There are definitely a lot of additional tools inside of Rhino, for instance stuff for bending or warping solids, etc... So it certainly can be useful if you need some of that stuff.

But there will definitely be a lot more stuff for MoI v2 for handling larger scenes. If MoI's current tools are doing the job for you but you just need object management tools, then MoI v2 should handle that for you itself fine, at least that is what I will be trying to do!

- Michael

Thanks for the succinct description of Moi, Michael

A bit confusing. Two Steves here. I'll be Steeve. Who started this thread.

> But this "Cant live without it", is only , for me, a lack of
> use/knowledge of other 3d programs.

I never meant that Moi is all I need or that it (the current version) has all the features I would like.
It's just the philosophy of Moi and everything Michael descibed above that makes it a necessary part of my arsenal.

Actually I am a full-time modeller and always have strong urges to try out new 3d apps.
The list of 3d apps I have used and still use is quite long. So the lack of use/knowledge argument doesn't work in this case.

The fact that I didn't just buy v1 straight off means that my bread and butter programs must take precedence, and that I don't belong to any well-funded organisation...it's just me.

I often think when doing some job "this would be so much easier/more fun in Moi."

In so many ways, Moi is "right up there" for me.

Steeve

Hi Steeve, I'm glad that I pegged what you were saying correctly!

Some people tell me that they used to be perfectly happy with other things they were using, and then after using MoI they aren't as happy with the other stuff anymore. Sometimes I wonder if I should put a warning label on MoI! ;)

Thanks!

- Michael

Hi Michael,

>>>It sounded like you were possibly having problems with sweeps more generally than that specific case?

The problems where mainly after sweeping on a projected (to surface) curve, then boolean out the sweep from that surface. I did mention that. (making etching etc)
Unfortunately, I did not keep those models. I will try to find some time to re-build to give you examples.

What I did find strange was: I was making cross cut booleans, (when posting to the boolean thread) and MoI did fail on most attempts. I did then load into Rhino, and that failed, but, when I imported the model and made all booleans in Rhino, it did work.

Anyway, I dont want to take this thread further off topic. So any finding I make I will make new thread (or post to that boolean thread) or e-mail the models with explanation.

- manz

edit:

I have e-mailed an example

>>>Sometimes I wonder if I should put a warning label on MoI!

Yes Michael I think you should!