Hi Michael,

I want to build to entire cap in moi, or at least try to.

I was referring to the "teethy" things.

Is it possible in moi to bring in images as references?

Thank you for your response Michael.

KJ

Hi Kevin,

> Is it possible in moi to bring in images as references?

Yup, in the side pane go to the "View" palette, and there is an Image command under there that you can use to add in background images.

See here for some more details:
http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/moi_command_reference5.htm#image


So those teeth things are somewhat at a boundary between a melty thing and a mechanical thing, I'm not so sure they are an ideal candidate for modeling in MoI rather than in sub-d. But does that general process of building one little individual tooth solid and then replicating it, boolean union, then fillet make sense? That would probably be how I would probably try.

- Michael

Here's a quick shot...



But just his part alone is 10mb..As Michael points out, usually with super fine detail stuff you would just use a rendering to show this part.. But if you have a massive graphics box, maybe you want to model all the detail..:o

A sample file setup to go may show how a bit faster...

In this zip is a file setup with some curves and a revolve solid (from the orange curve)



If you do a boolean difference of the green arcs from the solid, you can then fillet the top surface .75 inches...Then select the red object and extrude it .75. Now array circle the red solid with a 60 count. Pick the center origin as the array circle point. Down at the very bottom. (After I delete the ones just below the first boolean cuts..6 total) Now boolean union the whole solids batch and run fillet of .25..Should end up with this...



The dims wont work for you..It's just to show the toolset working...From here you would start creating your other pieces in the same way and adding them to the solid.....Good luck..

Thanks for the replies guys. Much appreciated.

KJ