Hi Duke, if you are interested in curvy parts, then certainly it is worthwhile to keep exploring MoI.

I mean despite MoI not being as fully optimized as SketchUp for blocky type stuff, I think it is very fair to say that MoI does handle blocky stuff better than SketchUp handles curvy stuff.

It will take a bit getting used to, like drawing 2 nested rectangles instead of one rectangle and then interior lines.

The blocky handling in MoI means you have to do like an extra step, not really that you can't get the job done at all...

But I mean what you are basically asking for is a program that does everything that other specialty programs do equally as well but also none of the specialty program's weaknesses.... I mean I can understand why you would want that but it is a pretty tall order, you may have to kind of adjust your expectations a bit there, especially when it is relatively early on in MoI's life cycle. I mean MoI version 1.0 was just released this year, SketchUp is in version 6.0 ...

Especially early on in MoI's life I have actually tended to try and make it useful for doing different styles of things than existing programs, the idea there is that it then gives you a useful extra tool to do new things, rather than just trying to do the same things that can already be done very well elsewhere. This will kind of change a bit as MoI matures some more.

- Michael

Hi Duke, one other thing that I should mention, you may be interested in several of the new things for v2, there is a summary of the new stuff so far here: http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/doc/V2releasenotes.html .

That includes several things of interest to architects, such as Feet & inches units (for the US), and SAT format export to enable exporting curved surface data into Revit.

Also some of the new drawing tools that let you draw directly on surfaces, similar to SketchUp in some aspects.

- Michael

Hi Anis,

Which GIF animation program do you use?

I am using a demo of Ulead GIF Animator 5,
but the image quality is poor

I know GIF aren't the best,but i am impressed
by your examples

He's using camtasia I suppose -> http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

Someone mentioned Jing on the forum I tried it Here in the zip file, I think it's pretty cool.
It's flash format and it's free.

Ok Paq,

Thanks

>Someone mentioned Jing on the forum I tried it Here in the zip file, I think it's pretty cool.
It's flash format and it's free.
~Danny~>

Hey Danny, It is very powerful also. It's Camtasia's Beta testing new idea's. I think moving on to the .net framework 3.

I'm on a w2k box now, so no go. My dev machine has Camtasia, but I do have a machine that could use a recorder and will put this on that. Very cool!

Thanks for the pointer.
Burr

Hi Paolo...

Like PaQ mentioned, I use camtasia 5 now...

-Anis

Thanks Anis,

I tested camtasia 5,and it works great.

GIF quality is better,although i guess
i have to use shockwave files(I do hate dose plugins)
for maximum quality

check also camstudio.org