Hi all.

I'm coming from years of using Cinema 4D, and purchased MOI a while back to do some CAD conversion, and to learn more about surface/nurbs modeling. Is there a good resource somewhere to help me wrap my head around the "principles" of NURBS modeling vs. POLY?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks.

SPH

Hi Sean, the introductory videos here give a good overview of the basic strategy, which is about drawing some principle profile curves, using those profiles to construct some shapes and to apply cuts, combining different shapes together with booleans and using fillets to round off sharp edges:
http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/tutorials.htm

Really the main way to sum up the strategy in a simple way is that you should be forming large portions of your model from a relatively small number of 2D profile curves.

Check out here for some links to discussions and general tips for people who are coming from a sub-d / poly modeling background:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4865.2

- Michael

Hey Sean

Michael's point is very spot on: Start simple and then step by step build up the model.
This might take some practice and there are always often multiple ways do approach
a modeling task.

If you are interested you could watch the video's on my YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/cekuhnen

While they are Alias Automotive and Blender based and use Maya you can however
translate the process I use in constructing the models to MOI as well.

I teach a course that covers creative use of CAD for industrial design where I try to
show the students a variety of modeling strategies how they can be combined and
what a good practice could be.

Maybe because you come from SDS modeling the Blender parts and how via Maya
the models could be converted could be interesting to you to know that C4D and MOI
with an in-between converter could be combined together.

I hop you can find the useful

Claas