Hallo Michael, I discovered a freestyle tool in CREO PTC, it looks amazing.
Watch example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4FVxyKeR4

Is it good idea for moi to have this kind of tool?

Seems it's saying "subdivision modeling" so polygon modeling?

Yes, but when you complete this poly modeling it converts it to nurbs, or whatever technology CREO use.

Hi mir4ea, someday in the future I'd like to add something like that, but it's really a very different style of modeling than what MoI is currently focused on and it needs a completely different kind of toolset to go along with it, it's all more about modifying a point cage and not about drawing curves...

Right now if you like that style of modeling you can get it by using a polygon sub-d modeling program to do it.

Because it would require a pretty much complete new toolset to be added into MoI, it's not like it's one simple feature to add, it would be a really big set of features all together and so there is a whole lot of work involved with trying to do that.

There is still a lot more work that I want to do on MoI's current sort of profile curve driven modeling strategy that I still want to enhance first before trying to go off in a much different direction like that.

- Michael

Effectively :) (freestyle is 2.50)

Hay I know that is different. But I think it is the future of modeling software where they will use all advantages of different modeling methods, and automatically convert from solids to poly and vice versa.

Hi mir4ea,

> But I think it is the future of modeling software where they will use all advantages of
> different modeling methods, and automatically convert from solids to poly and vice
> versa.

Yup, it does seem to be the direction that CAD is heading towards in the future.

I would also like to make MoI work like that in the future as well, it will probably be a while in the future yet though.

- Michael

Yep, is it any way to make moi compatable with t-spline?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe2kmsM94FQ

Hi mir4ea,

> Yep, is it any way to make moi compatable with t-spline?

Since t-splines make NURBS objects, you can use the results it generates with MoI.

Or do you mean use the Rhino t-splines plug-in directly inside of MoI for modeling? No, it's not generally possible for plug-ins for one system to be used on a different system, it's a lot more than file format translation, plug-ins make use of all kinds of runtime services like user interface mechanisms, selection mechanisms, etc... which are all very specific to one particular application.

- Michael

I mean t-splines plug-in directly inside of Moi, good I understood