Resources

Links to useful MoI information on the web    ( French)

MOI's site links	External links
MoI home page MoI discussion forum Frequently Asked Questions MoI help file online (French) ( German) ( Spanish) ( Italian) Shortcut Keys Hidden Secrets Scripting Burr's script archive - collection of scripts posted on the forum V4 Beta release notes Node editor plugin MoI End User License Agreement	Petr's MoI page, a variety of informations including scripts and custom commands. (French version) Max Smirnov's MoI scripts (French version) Pies Menu by Pilou with AutoHotPie (French version)

Language packs:
French v4 update Spanish v2 update   Italian UI and help file	French v2 update   German v2 update

Tutorials

MoI documentation video tutorials MoI Basics video tutorial by Bojan Koturanović - 7 hours $25 on Gumroad Tutorials on YouTube by Liminal4D 48 German language video tutorials by Stefan Schneller on jewelry design Introduction and overview PDF by Fabien Franzen Sub-d car modeling in MoI by Ed Ferguson Custom truck tutorial by Ed Ferguson Tutorials by Mike Maynard, ( 18 of them in French by Pilou) Ring tutorial by Jesse Kaufman, and #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 Simple ring using rail revolve, Simple ring using sweep + scaling rail for more control Product design forums modeling challenges (not specific to MoI but useful for general CAD modeling strategy). Simple Intarsia type design Creating a 3-toed base foot Flow workflow video from danperk Tutorials for guitar modeling in MoI and Rhino and CNC production Car modeling techniques by Zarkow, and #2 and video tutorials

MoI for Game Assets video tutorial by Arrimus 3D - 5 hours $9.99 on Gumroad Introductory videos by Tom Meeks - videos with narration covering a lot of basics. A complete Youtube channel by Tom Meeks - 3D design for fun and life / Noun and Verb method. Videos from Andrei Samardac Video on modeling a SpacePilot controller from lyes Vimeo channel with tutorials from lyes Joe's classical column video tutorials Japanese bathtub tutorial Object repair tutorial Ferrari 599 GTB tutorial videos by lyes Snowman figure by PaQ Accurate tapers using Expressions by Danny (Not really needed since Extrude now has a taper function good if you want to learn basic trig) D.T. Discussions on ship hull techniques Videos: Functions of the Manual by Pilou ( in French) Making accurate screw threads video from OSTexo Scooter tutorial from Mauro:    YouTube channel    Forum post

Helper programs

Some standalone small programs to help accomplish specific tasks.

Rhino6/7/8 3DM file format to Rhino5 3DM file format (MOI3D compatible) converter

Download Convert3DMToRhinoV5 converter for Windows

Download Convert3DMToRhinoV5 converter for Mac
For the Mac version, run this from a Terminal prompt:
sudo xattr -cr '/Applications/Convert3DMToRhinoV5'

Obj23dmWireframe converter

Download Obj23dmWireframe converter for Windows

Download Obj23dmWireframe converter for Mac

This enables bringing polygon data in an .obj file into MoI to use as a construction guide. Unzip it to some folder, and then you can run the Obj23dmWireframe.exe program. It will prompt you for the name of an .obj file to read, and after that the name of a .3dm file to create. It will read all the polygon data from the obj file and convert the edges of polygons into line segments, and then write those line segments to the 3dm file. You can then load that 3dm file into MoI and use those line segments to snap on to. Originally posted on the forum here.

MergeOBJ utility

Download MergeOBJ utility

This utility program can combine several input OBJ files into one single OBJ file. This may be useful if you want to build up a set of different OBJ files possibly by exporting pieces with different mesh settings, and then combine them into one OBJ file if your target program wants to work with only a single file. This was created because the freely available mesh editing tools have a tendency to remove vertex normals when combining files together, this utility will preserve vertex normals. Announced on the forum here.

Old utilities

3dmCurves2DXF converter - This could convert curves in a 3DM file to a DXF file to be used for CAM programs. It's not needed anymore since MoI v3 now directly supports DXF file export.

These utilities were to help with MoI v1 which did not export material assignments to OBJ files. Since MoI v2 can control material assignments by assigning Styles, these are no longer necessary but are still included here for v1 users.
    SeparateOBJ editor - Breaks an OBJ file exported from MoI v1 into smaller pieces and puts separate material assignments on each piece for import into programs that require that.
    MergeOBJ editor (old version) - Edits an OBJ file to combine all the different objects in it into one single object so there will be just one material for the whole thing.