I just developed some variations on a stock tree supplied by Plant Factory free learning version.

They work in Rhino OK (imported as .obj files) and can be assigned materials and rendered in Flamingo but the .3dm files are not openable in MoI as the are initially blocks and when exploded must become meshes also not readable by MoI.

Is this correct Michael?

It sure would be nice to be able to import meshes into MoI. Is that something for the future or is MoI simply not compatible with Rhino meshes? I know that there has been discussion of this previously but I kind of skipped over it.

cheers
eric

Hi eric,

> They work in Rhino OK (imported as .obj files) and can be assigned materials and rendered in
> Flamingo but the .3dm files are not openable in MoI as the are initially blocks and when exploded
> must become meshes also not readable by MoI.
>
> Is this correct Michael?

Yes, that's correct - MoI does not read polygon mesh objects out of 3DM files to use interactively. They will get loaded and stored internally for round tripping back out if you save the same file.


> It sure would be nice to be able to import meshes into MoI. Is that something for the future
> or is MoI simply not compatible with Rhino meshes?

Maybe something for the future - it brings up a lot of UI issues and potential confusion having multiple different kinds of objects which do not naturally interact with one another.

- Michael