I'm a fairly proficient MODO user. I used MOI for a bit during the beta and liked its ability to create many archviz shapes via booleans etc in a quick and efficient manner.

My one gripe was that after doing many booleans, duplicates of the objects would inexplicably be created in the same model space. When bringing these items into MODO for rendering I run a script called mesh cleanup that takes all of the duplicate polys and verts and merge / unifies them. The problem with this is that this script seemingly randomly decides which poly to keep leaving the end result in a much greater mess (polys seemingly randomly flipped all over the model). I think it does this b/c in some cases there were as many as 4 objects existing in the same space while adjacent polys had no duplication.

Is there a command / script that cleans up and deletes the duplicated geometry inside MOI? If I could bring in a cleaner mesh into modo it would cut down my cleanup time to practically nothing and would greatly influence my purchase of this product.

I also noticed that on the wishlist page there is a mention of adding feet AND inches input. Is this something that would be addressed in the near future (i.e. v2 beta?)

Last question :) I noticed a post about an educational discount. I'm currently a student in an architectural masters program, is there an educational discount for individual purchases or just for group purchases?

Hi rajah,

> <...> I used MOI for a bit during the beta <...>
> My one gripe was that after doing many booleans, duplicates of
> the objects would inexplicably be created in the same model space.

There was a bug that was causing this in some earlier beta versions, it should be fixed up since about June of last year (along with many other things as well).

I'm not quite sure if you are talking about a problem you have run into with the v1 release, or one that you ran into with an old beta version?


If you're running into duplicated objects with a current verison, please let me know and if you can possibly send me an example model (to moi@moi3d.com) or some steps on how to reproduce the problem that would definitely be helpful.

But I would normally expect that you should not have any duplicated objects in MoI anymore, so that whole cleanup step just should not be necessary now.


> I also noticed that on the wishlist page there is a mention of adding
> feet AND inches input. Is this something that would be addressed
> in the near future (i.e. v2 beta?)

Yes, I'm going to try and get this pretty soon in v2. This has definitely been one of the top requests from architectural users, along with SAT export to enable data transfer into Revit, which will also be coming pretty soon in a v2 beta as well.


> Last question :) I noticed a post about an educational discount. I'm
> currently a student in an architectural masters program, is there an
> educational discount for individual purchases or just for group purchases?

At the moment I only have something to send to teachers for a lab type situation.

I don't currently have something for individual student purchases, but I am going to be looking into that to see if I can get someone to handle that for me. There is some overhead involved in that like verifying student IDs and such, at the moment I am not really set up to handle that.

- Michael

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll download the trial again and check it out. I looked at the file creation date from some of the models in question and it was around december of last year that it was doing it. I'll have to try to replicate it again. If I can I'll be sure to send you a file along with the process in question.

I think I'll be getting this rather soon if all works well.

Thanks again.