I have already said that MoI is one of my first favorite tools.I have congratulated Michael for such a great program and for his help and attention to this forum and his response to all our requests.
However, I must agree with an older post about a different forum organization, one like most other sites use.
For example, we will need a Wishlist forum, a Technical forum, a Tutorial forum, a Gallery forum , a WIP forum etc...
Probably you already know this Michael and maybe you prepare something.
I am sure that the users will be more and more every day with misc problems, wishes, work to show so a single list of posts is not a good way to organize all this info.

I agree, this will become even worse after 1.0 release. It seems the forum needs to find its own MOI... :)

jonah

Hi JTB, after 1.0 is released I will definitely be spending some time tuning up the forum. Until then it is a lower priority than finishing up the documentation though.

One thing that I have often seen is a forum get broken up into too many sections which tends to make it harder for people to browse the forum and participate. Often times out of say 10 different sections there are 9 that are practically empty and just one that is actually active.

I want to avoid that type of problem, so I don't want to add in a whole bunch of sections all at once. I'm thinking that probably an additional Tutorial and a Gallery section would be good to start with.

- Michael

>> I want to avoid that type of problem, so I don't want to add in a whole bunch of sections all at once. I'm thinking that probably an additional Tutorial and a Gallery section would be good to start with.

Maybe a WIP section would be interesting too... ;-)

Another suggestion is a place where all useful non documented tips, tricks and techniques would be gathered. Not necessarily a forum section. This may be a few pages on the web site for example.
See this message : http://www.moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=855.4. Today, I read it and I know it's there. But imagine that I need the information one year later, maybe I won't be able to find this message again. And people discovering MoI some time after the message has been published will never see it. There are tons of such useful tips and informations on the forum and it would be great to have all of them in a safe place...

Schbeurd

Yeah once I have the documentation going, I think I'll have that up on the web site in its own section, I can add a "Tips and Tricks" type section there as well with various bits of info there.

Actually, just collecting links to informative forum posts in one spot would probably be a good start.

- Michael

The people over at sketchucation have done a really great job with their forum page. Great little icons and catagories for all things related to sketchup
http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/
check it out when you get a chance if you aren't already familiar with this page

Anyways.....i can't wait for the release. it's a really wonderful tool. I'm still trying to figure out how I can integrate some of its features into my workflow. It looks like this program would lend itself more to industrial design rather than architecture. This of coarse is true only because of what I have seen. I"m also a total noob at this type of software.

Regardless ---i can't wait.
thanks Michael
Ypnos

> It looks like this program would lend itself more to industrial design rather than architecture.

Hi Ypnos, yes I think that is correct.

However, there is a certain flavor of architecture that is more "industrial design-ish" and less hard-edge and boxy. MoI is a good solution to that sort of style of architecture, like stuff that does not fit inside of a more standard pattern.

It's also not too unusual for just a few certain elements of an architectural design to have a more freeform curvy structure. Like imagine a parking garage - the garage itself may be pretty straightforward and work well with standard architecture modelers, but maybe one ramp in the design needs to be made of more flowing curves. MoI can be handy for modeling just these kinds of curvy elements within a larger design.

- Michael

I am an engineer doing 100% architectural design. I can't use MoI for my building plans, since there is no dimensions, hatches. Also, I usually need BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology so that's why I use Revit Architecture.
Moi is my favorite tool for general modeling for my building models, especially for my interior projects (stores, office buildings etc) because Revit is not good at general modeling. I have 1-2 examples in the gallery thread showing what I mean.
I think MoI is a great tool and I will use it very often for furniture modeling, light fixtures, exterior objects, special constructions from wood, gypsumboard, difficult false ceilings, etc.

I think MoI 2.0 will be even better with object handling, grouping, maybe some more 2D functions etc... So it's worth having such a nice tool