Thanks Michael. Frankly, I wasn't sure if MoI was up to the task of speed modeling the vehicle. I may have been more mentally at home in Lightwave, where I can find kit bash items if necessary. But Modeler doesn't have the super accurate workflow and strong Boolean and filleting commands MoI has.
FWIW, I've not had good luck doing this sort of hi Rez photo modeling in SketchUp-- just too many things can go wrong and unlike LightWave, it's difficult to hand stitch vertices in the rare case they need help. Plus the SubD plugin, while an amazing feat of programming in Ruby, doesn't have the full features of native SubD implementations of other poly apps.
Time and again I was super thankful for the obvious attention you've paid to this interface, where I would 'discover' a way of solving problems intuitively. The coolest part is, the drone is pretty much buildable at scale on my 3D printer-- I believe it's that accurate. Composed of *mostly* solids (had to separate some solids to surfaces for decaling and material application in Keyshot), the hinge mechanisms and pivots were all worked out pretty much.
All in all a success. I believe I pushed some of the bounds of MoI- 50 or so named objects each with numbers of solids, surfaces and curves. Final export was in the millions of polys in obj format. Imported and rendered beautifully in Keyshot. Though the incremental saves eventually became quite large, MoI didn't hang on me once. Surprised at how robust the Wine implementation is not to mention your fine programming.
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