And just to give you a general idea - on my kind of old (6 year old) main machine with an old video card in it, SketchUp's display seems to get bogged down a lot more easily.

Often times a model that is workable in MoI seems to be sluggish in display speed when converted over to SketchUp.

But I think that they've made progress on the display speed in SketchUp in their recent releases though, and I have not messed with those very much.

- Michael

Thank you for your detailed and informative answer Michael. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions.
I knew MoI is a NURBS modelling app, but I didn't realize that polygons are a "non issue". I thought it was a way of bending and twisting the polygons, in order to fit a curve between point A and point B. But now I know better ;)

I am seriously considering buying MoI. I love what you've done here, and you deserve all the credit in the world for it. Unfortunately I'm under a tight budget at the moment. So until I win the lottery, I'm trying to figure out the pros and cons of the different softwares out there.

Another question comes to mind: Sketchup isn't using newer hardware to its full potential, and this also leads to the dissapointing performance. 64 bit proccessor technology is not utilized, and google has failed to upgrade it openGL engine.

How does the corresponding situation look with MoI?

To save Michael a job (I hope) , MoI is 32 bit. However, the only difference between a 32 bit app and a 64 bit app is memory addressing, not the actual processor performance. If you run a 32 bit app like MoI on a 64 bit system, MoI should be able to address 4GB of memory.

As for OpenGL, Moi doesn't use it. It uses DirectX.

Hi 2kemon,

> How does the corresponding situation look with MoI?

It's fairly similar actually, because one nice feature of MoI is that it runs well on modest hardware, for example you can run it on a basic netbook computer and it does not require a huge powerhouse workstation just in order to function.

However, MoI v2 will take advantage of multiple CPU cores when creating an export mesh to polygon file formats, including creating an SKP file. Previously in v1 that was a pretty slow process.

There are some other areas where I do want to try and leverage multiple cores as well, in v3 I will be trying to experiment with that some more.

re: 64-bit version - currently MoI only has a 32-bit version and that probably won't change anytime too soon, since it takes quite a bit of work to maintain multiple versions.

- Michael

...again. Thank you very much for your answers. Your clear and precise answers have eliminated my doubts. When the money roll in again, I'll be buying MoI ;)