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That's insane, for a one man operation! Just incredible...

US, Hawaii here....

Hi Burr,

> That's insane, for a one man operation! Just incredible...

It's interesting how it's worked out - I guess some kind of side effect from not doing advertising and relying on word of mouth through the Internet has led to things being spread out internationally quite a bit.

And of course it works out well that I don't have to physically ship something to all those places...

- Michael

No one has made an announcement on the Alibre/Geomagic forum yet.

"A word of mouth approach"

Ah yes. I would also take a shot and say maybe a little to do with MoI's "artist" base... guy's like Frenchy and PAQ who may never interact with the manufacturing world of CAD products...

One may never buy solidworks/NX/PTC to make game assets....

I think your vision on the product is real, made with great care and good insight, and well thought out. I dont think there is anything that can stop that train!

@Brian
It hasnt been officially released yet... just here in the forum.....

Thanks Michael for your dedication to this fine software, always enjoy using it.

> And of course it works out well that
> I don't have to physically ship something to all those places...

Can I order a CD? ;)

That's okay will download soon :)

Cheers

Michael, you could (but I guess that's too late now), add this to the first start license checking of MoI. This way you'd spare yourself the hassle to setup a page or email licenses to people. I mean, MoI asks for a license on the first start anyway. If it then detects a v2 license (I don't know if you encode the purchase date in the license code), checks the date and automatically generate a v3 license.
On the other hand I am not sure if you want to ship the license generating code with MoI. Some idiots could try to crack it.

However, I just asked because I can't wait. Never saw v3 and I don't know anything about the new features. Maybe I'll try the beta in the mean time :)

Thank you Michael for this solid release.

Its been quite a journey watching the development process.
And what was amazed me the most was that the beta versions where just as stable as the previous release version. Never had a single crash.
I feel like i've been using 3.0 for a long time, but with new features being added all the time :-)

Cant wait for the V4 ride to begin!

Does the 3.0 "educational" released?

Hi Nicolinux:

> If it then detects a v2 license (I don't know if you encode the purchase date in the license
> code), checks the date and automatically generate a v3 license.

Unfortunately the purchase date is not encoded inside the license key itself so there isn't really any way for it to know when to auto generate a new license unless it would do something like contact a web server. That would then involve stuff at both the client and web server sides though... Probably more work overall.

Good idea though if it was more feasible!

- Michael

@ Pilou,

> Does the 3.0 "educational" released?

No, not yet - the educational version ordering is handled for me by a separate company called Studica. It will take me a little bit of time to contact them and get them update their own order pages and stuff like that.

Hopefully that will be able to happen sometime this next week.

- Michael

GG Michael ;)

Max.

Congrats Michael on v3! Can't wait to work in MoI again :) Upgraded!

Michael,

Has a list of V3 vs. V2 benefits/additions been drawn up yet? Got a little lost between Betas...

Cheers,

- Rich

Congratulations on a very solid release!
Always amazed at the level of detail involved while maintaining a cohesive whole.

It's been what, 4 years since V2?

Marc

@ Rich re:
> Has a list of V3 vs. V2 benefits/additions been drawn up yet? Got a little lost between Betas...

I'll be working on a list like that this week, the closest thing I have to that right now is the collection of all the v3 beta release notes here:
http://moi3d.com/wiki/V3Beta


@Marc re:
> It's been what, 4 years since V2?

Yeah it stretched out to an especially long time this time, partly because of working on the Mac version during this period. I hopefully don't want to make it so long the next time, it's not good for people who are testing the trial version to be using one that's so much older than the current stuff.


- Michael

v3 trial versions are now available on http://moi3d.com/download.htm

- Michael

WOOOWWW finally version 3 is ready!!

This is my birthday present to ME today! yeahhhhh

ready and testing, lets test the new tools!!!

thanks a lot Michael for your hard work!

Hi , I ordered MoI V2 one month ago , how do I get the free V3 upgrade ?
Thanks David

Hey Michael,

Thanks for putting the new trial link up! I tried it today through Wine on Linux Mint 17. It seems to work fine, but the fonts look bad; they are very thick and hard to read. See the attached image (view it full sized -- the scaled-down version of the image masks the problem a little bit, I think). I started with a clean wineprefix and didn't use any winetricks. At first I thought it might be a video problem, but the same thing happens on multiple machines with different video drivers, and I didn't have any such problems with MOI 2. Any ideas?

Dan

Hi David,

> Hi , I ordered MoI V2 one month ago , how do I get the free V3 upgrade ?

I'll be setting up a web page where you'll be able to put in your v2 license key and then get the v3 upgrade if you've ordered v2 recently like you have.

I don't have it set up quite yet though, it will take me a few more days yet or possibly a week before I will have it set up.

In the meantime you can get the v3 beta version from here: http://moi3d.com/beta.htm - it's pretty much the same software as the final v3 version except that it will expire in a couple of months. But the beta version will allow you to use v3 now with your v2 license until I get the upgrade mechanism worked out.

- Michael