Hi Citarra, do you mean it would not Shell? Shelling tends to be a fairly delicate operation, if you have any spots on your surface that bend around too tightly shelling tends to only work with small distances.

Can you please post the .3dm file with the surface in it that you are having a problem with? That will make it easier for me to check out what is going on.

You will probably have to alter the surface to be a little less bendy to make it work. Shelling in general is not really one of the most dependable functions in MoI right now, I need to collect up examples where it does not work well so that it can get improved.

- Michael

Any of you guys have or know where i can do a simple robot tutorial?
I finally downloaded the trial version and want to start on something simple
yet something sci-fi-ish since i have alot of drawings for a story in mind.
Thanks for any feedback Morriors

http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/pod.htm

Have you looked at this one?

Brian

Thanks Brian. I will work on that now.
I'm looking for something simple but have ideas that are in the Wall-E/Old Japanese
style robots style in mind.

Hi jiro - that tutorial that Brian mentioned and also the other 2 available here:
http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/tutorials.htm

are probably the best place to start.

Although they are not specifically for robot construction, they give a beginning introduction to how MoI's basic tools work for constructing shapes. The same concepts that you learn from those tutorials should be applicable to building robots as well.

- Michael

Jiro
The attached are ideas of things that would be simple to make in MoI as "exercises" I think.
(I wish I had had MoI then!)
I have even made a radio and the hat like that in MoI since.

Have fun

Brian

Cowboy Robots...cool Brian!
Thanks for those other tutorials Michael. I guess that is you
behind the mic. :) Very cool. I just finished a 5-legged Pod.
Great exercise in learning the fundamental tools and concepts.
I think i got the gyst of it. Use of revolve, sweep, paths, railing paths,
editing and moving points, arrays, fillets, and boolean.
I will go on to the other exercises tomorrow and review them.

Do pods use steroids? I did not know that!

Absolutely!

Ok, did the next 2 tutorials. I'm enjoying this program alot Michael.
So user-friendly for the artist. What do you and everyone recommend now after the 3 tutorials?
I will review all 3 again, keep notes and make sure i get the overall concepts and tools. Thanks!

Hi jiro, looks like you have been making progress!

There are some other tutorials available on the Resources page - from the main MoI home page (http://moi3d.com), click on the Resources link at the top and that will open a page that has a "Tutorials" section which lists some other tutorials that are available.

There are some videos made by Steph there that show construction of a couple of other objects, and Daniele's lamp tutorial and a few others.

But other than that, just think up some ideas and try making some of your own shapes using the same kind of techniques that were covered in those first 3 videos, is probably the best advice I could give.

- Michael