just what I wanted to here Michael. Thanks. Is there any way I can design jewellery with pave stone settings using Moi?

Hi Sculpy, it's possible to do pave stone settings using MoI's built in functions but it may be pretty labor intensive if you have a high number of them. So it kind of depends on the complexity of what you'd be trying to do.

To make it easier you would want some more specialized software that has tools specifically targeting that, like RhinoGold for example.

MoI itself is pretty general purpose, when software is more specialized for a single industry or purpose it can tend to make it easier to do that specific thing.

- Michael

<< SketchUp is very easy to use so it's great for beginners but it's also mainly designed to do boxy architectural shapes and builds everything out of polygons.

The boxy mode is now some avoid by some tricky plugins! ;)
So now SketchUp is also becoming a sort of Subdivision prog! (not so poweful than a real one but as it's so easy...;)
http://evilsoftwareempire.com/subd
http://evilsoftwareempire.com/vertex-tools

Just been watching Moi tutorials. This software is brilliant. Short of designing a space shuttle it should do all I need.
Thanks

Sculpy

Hi Pilou,

> The boxy mode is now some avoid by some tricky plugins! ;)
> So now SketchUp is also becoming a sort of Subdivision prog! (not so
> poweful than a real one but as it's so easy...;)

One of the things that makes SketchUp easy to use is that the main program UI has stayed focused on drawing lines on faces and using push / pull. That is cool that there's a plug-in that does sub-d smoothing but that type of modeling is very different from boxy line drawing push/pull modeling and so trying to use it for that is going to lose a lot of the easy to learn quality.

If you want to do sub-d modeling there are other programs out there that are focused just on that and have their entire UI tuned for doing that.

- Michael