""""""""you've really gotten the hang of the "get the modeling done quickly" kind of vibe!""""""""""

Well, I think thats what has come to be the norm, but I was refering earlier to "less effective". We always see some guy modeling a fancy car and say "WHOA!" and learn nothing about the software. I think the 3 tutes get glossed over, but they pretty much cover everything! I'm still not sure if I could make a good "training video".. I think sometimes when I slow down and start talking, I may be making it more confusing for someone who is trying to learn something. I think this may be the conundrum also. Someone like Grendel doesnt need to hear or see me say "First, I draw a construction line... This is a helper line for creating geometry", but may watch a few things blaze by and think, "Oh, that was a neat trick, I never used that like that before"... But someone learning the software would have to "Pause... Look.....Review help file....Pause...Return later....""" to understand the blazing video, but would benefit from "This is a construction line" type stuff...

Oh well. For now I can just illustrate something very specific, without much effort. I was trying to emphasis "solids" with that last one.

I was trying to avoid "Fixing" his "how do I cap this area" model and just show how a different workflow would make better results... If he would like me to cap his other model, I'll make that one also. (I'll speak in that one Majik!)

Hi Burr, yeah a training video especially targeted at beginners is a bit different kind of a thing. But I think that quite a lot of people also like to see other stuff as well, and something that just shows normal use can give someone a lot of ideas and help give a frame of reference for how just drawing things is supposed to look like.

- Michael

Wow thanks guys

The way things are going I'm going to end up buying this :)

Welcome to MoI Steve...

BTW, I am curious how many user around the world today using MoI ?

Hello,

It's like a speed painting tutorial, only with MoI.

Guys

I have created a simple model and wishing to connect the cylinder.

Now I know this is a candidate for the blend tool and it does works. However I having a brain block how to merge it into one object

Once I apply the blend tool, and attempt and boolean Union the cylinder still refuses to merge into one cylinder.

Steve

Hello Stever_uk,

After your Blend try selecting the three pieces and selecting Join.

Hi Steve,
Thats a "Join" with those 3 surfaces...

A boolean is geared towards having 2 solids that intersect somehow and creating a new volume by calculating the new intersections and removing the unwanted pieces. The Join is how various surfaces are "Glued together". If you have 2 surfaces with a shared edge, then they can be joined at that edge. With proper construction of surfaces, having all edges joined into a closed shape, creates a solid.

Hiya,

That's what I thought as they were faces. I do a join but I still see the two edges within the cylinder and thus don't believed they have have joined into a single object

??

Steve

When you select your object, look at the properties in the upper right corner:

Gotcha, ok so I have formed a solid

I was just expected the lines in the cylinder to disappear


Thanks for your patience :)

Hi Steve, so those lines are the surface edges - when you do a join what actually happens is the edges get glued to one another, so join will not make edges disappear the edges are still there but now MoI will have knowledge that there is a connection between the pieces on either side of the edge.

If all the edges of an object are joined between 2 surfaces that makes a fully connected skin and then forms a solid volume.

Edges are not normally things that you get rid of, they're boundaries of a surface. To get rid of an edge would mean building a bigger surface in that spot rather than having several small surface pieces.

If you want a final result that is missing edges like that, that's usually a sign that you actually want to start out with a bigger piece initially and then cut away some portions of that rather than building that particular area out of little separate surface patches.

- Michael

Great that makes it all clear now Michael, thanks

Hi Michael

..sorry to capture this thread, but there seems to be a problem with the Blend command in the recent beta.



I had this kind of glitch before but in connection with the UI settings. Is there a proper place for reporting bugs and alike anyway?

cheers,
Marco

Hi Marco, yeah that's the same bug as the UI settings one.

But I think it should be fixed in the most recent Oct-25 beta release (which I still haven't made a proper announcement for, will do that soon) which you can download from here: http://moi3d.com/beta.htm

Or do you mean that you're still seeing that bug in the Oct-25 release?


> Is there a proper place for reporting bugs and alike anyway?

Either here in the forum or you can e-mail them to me at moi@moi3d.com

Thanks,
- Michael

Hi Michael

silly me..i really have to uninstall the Aug-24 release..gsus..i do have the Oct-25 release installed and everything's fine there. Problem was, that i mixed up the "MOI" from the Start Menu with the "MOI" from the recently opened programs. Maybe displaying a release/version number more prominent would diminish those false alarms.

Case closed!

cheers,
marco