So FreeCad ?
http://www.freecadweb.org/

or wait a little for have this inside MOi!
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3145.28

Thank you Michael. I know that blocks are different than "Parametric" but at least it is the most basic way to quickly replace components if the design require to make changes.

Please take a look at the SketchUP component, are plenty of videos in Youtube. The are very simple to make and use but also very effective. MoI already have scripting capabilities, so basically needs to link the scripting with the objects.

@Pilou: Thank you for the answer.

I tried FreeCAD but it's difficult to use, the interface is very confusing.

MoI is much simpler to use. Only needs some "Components" a la Sketchup, or dimension constraints.

I'm designing furniture, and a lot of elements are repeated tens or hundreds of times. If I need to make adjustments, its very time consuming to adjust every single element individually. In Sketchup, if I'm changing the parameters from one component, all the instances of the same component are updated automatically. Simple, but dead effective. Also the components from SK have some driven logic, so I can add some kind of parametrization.

Project Elephant: This is generative design. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but also will be useful to have such features in MoI, especially for the architects.

So maybe free DesignSpark Mechanical ;)
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6186.1
But take this V1 http://zwcad.com.tw/nick/FREE3D/ for have maximum functions!

Is this running under OSX and Linux?

You see, it is not so simple as it seems. :)

Only PC :)

Hi, Pilou...

Could you please elaborate more with the V1 'have maximum functions'?
I would like to know before download it.

Thank you very much in advance.

You have for example this very cool function Blend who don't more existing in the V2 !!!
;)

Frenchy Pilou
>> or wait a little for have this inside MOi!
A little? :) I never told that. It will come right after MoI v4, or later, or it will never come at all.

So a big little during a new moment of inspiration! :)

Seems you don't drop the affair! ;)
Courage!

Hi Pilou,
In fact I didn't spend a lot of time writing it. I decided to finish the main core script, and then share it with community.
I still do not have plans to write the whole node-system for MoI.

Max,

I think there is a real business opportunity here.
I for one, would be prepared to pay for a node-based parametric add-on for Moi3d.

James

This project is very close to alpha release :)
In the last build I added Save/Load functions, node info/edit panel, slider node.

Seems terrific! Pleasure of the coding! ;)
Any functions valuable ?

Hi Max,

I am deeply impressed! Hats off to You!

With respect and Kind regards

Karsten

Unbelievable, this is realy great. Bringing MoI closer to tools like Houdini etc.

Great work Max
.

hello ,
it is possible integrate appleseed or similar?

http://appleseedhq.net/features.html

http://appleseedhq.net/gallery.html#http%3A%2F%2Fappleseedhq.net%2Fimg%2Fscreenshots%2Fgafferseed.jpg