Hi Everyone,

Here's a couple of different Template files I've made for myself to suit the Layers of other programs.

If I know that I'll be sending a file to someone with Matrix, then I'll just use the MoI-Matrix Template as my starting point.
And if I'm going to be sending files to a known Rhino user, then I'll use the MoI-R4 Template instead.

The reason being is that I will often share a file with someone who has Rhino or the Matrix Plug-In only to have the MoI Styles being added onto their existing Layers system.
Sometimes this can cause even more confusion with Newbie's using those programs, when your offering help via your MoI Default Template.

Anyway hope they're of use to others.

regards Colin

Hi Colin, thanks for sharing these!

Some other notes on templates - as you've seen you can set a startup template under Options > General, which will be used whenever MoI starts up.

But there is also a kind of "one shot only" template loader available by right-clicking on the File/Open button instead of left-clicking it. That will pop up an "Open Template" dialog and let you choose the file to open.

It's pretty close to a regular file open, the difference is that it does not set the active file name so that you won't easily overwrite the template when you hit Save, it will prompt you for a new name then.


Also, it is possible set up some keyboard shortcuts so that you could hit a key to open up a particular template. To do that, for the shortcut key command put in OpenTemplate followed by a space and then the full name of your file, like:

OpenTemplate c:\some folder\your template.3dm


- Michael