Full Version: path to becoming a power user?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using MOI for quite some time and have created a number of useful 3D printed objects with it. Even so, I often feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of what it can do.

When I read through many of the more advanced discussions here, I realize there’s a lot I don’t yet understand. It’s clear there’s a deeper level of knowledge and workflow that I haven’t reached.

I was wondering if anyone might be willing to suggest a path for developing that level of proficiency. Are there particular concepts, techniques, or practice approaches that helped you become more advanced users?

For context, I’m running the latest beta, and I’m comfortable working with scripts or extensions if that opens up additional directions.

Thank you very much for any guidance you can offer.

Best regards,
Dave

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When I started I purchased this: https://gumroad.com/d/3076180678d7ae29ab73ad652c6ad717

just kept going through it and slowly finding use cases for the features in my projects. This guide really helped me understand MOI's capabilities.

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Hi Dave, it's kind of difficult to say because there are a lot of variables involved.

A lot can depend on what type of model you want to construct.

In general skills improve over time and experience.

One thing that is an important step is being able to extract simple forms.

Like for example with this object:




Instead of trying to construct that by drawing in all the edge curves and then filling in the faces, it's instead better with MOI's toolset to build it out of 2D profile curves, something like this:









- Michael

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dave_simple_forms1.jpg  dave_simple_forms2.jpg  dave_simple_forms3.jpg  dave_simple_forms4.jpg  dave_simple_forms5.jpg 

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Thank you. let me dig through this.

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