Hi Michael. Very often i model in Rhino using degree 1 surfaces. Today i tried copy/pasting one of them to Moi, and Moi completely locked up. I know there is no way to rebuild surfaces yet in Moi, but I'm curious if Moi is able to support non-degree-3 surfaces. If not now, then how long until you can add that support?

On a related note, Rhino surfaces of degree 2 (such as sphere and torus primitives) copy/paste to Moi just fine. In fact, I noticed they convert to degree 3 in Moi, and then revert back to degree 2 when copy/pasted into Rhino again. Neat!!! So how about supporting degree 1 ?

Thanks,
jonah

WEIRD - I just copy/pasted a degree 1 sphere and it worked just fine! But it split into a polysurface along the creases. I wonder why that other file was giving me trouble today? (scratching head)... Nevermind, if it happens again then i'll send a file...

Hi Jonah, MoI supports any degree for curves and surfaces from 1 to like 24 or so.

You must have hit a bug with a particular surface, probably something involving creased surfaces - yeah if you run into it again please send the file so I can squish the bug.


> In fact, I noticed they convert to degree 3 in Moi, and then revert back
> to degree 2 when copy/pasted into Rhino again.

They're actually still degree 2 in MoI, until you drag one of their points.

When you turn on control points for certain kinds of objects in MoI, MoI will show you the points for an automatically rebuilt object that will squish smoothly. This happens for arcs, circles, ellipses, and surfaces of revolution. If you move one of the points, the exact degree 2 object is replaced with the rebuilt cubic one that squishes better.

I'm sure you've seen in Rhino how exact objects like spheres do not tend to squish well unless you rebuild them - creases will develop at the fully multiple knots.

Getting creases like that tends to be a confusing thing for a lot of people, so this kind of "squishification" is an automatic process in MoI if you turn on control points.

- Michael

>>When you turn on control points for certain kinds of objects in MoI, MoI will show you the points for an automatically rebuilt object that will squish smoothly.

It seems we haven't revealed all of stuff that make MoI so "user-friendly" yet!

Petr