Hi Danny - I guess the hope I would have there would be that you're doing assembly type operations at a somewhat less level of frequency.

If you're not doing something at a high level of frequency, then it isn't such a burden to fire up an auxiliary command like Move.

In fact, it is a problem to kind of "over optimize" and try to make a less frequently used thing very prominent in the regular UI because then it takes up some of the overall UI mojo for not a big gain.

The thing that will be good about the parts being selected on merge is that they will be all set up for you to do a Move (or whatever) operation on them right away without needing to select them first, so it will actually work smoothly with Move.

- Michael

Hi okapi,

I have set up drag & drop support for the next v2 beta.

After you drop a File or Files on the MoI window, There will be an options dialog displayed:



If you use "Open file" the current file will be closed and replaced by the new content.

If you use "Merge file", then any current data will stay in place and the dropped files will be added to it the same as the File/Import command.


If you have an empty scene then it will not prompt you and will do an Open.


If you want to open everything in separate MoI program instances, then do a right-click on the files in Windows Explorer and pick "Open" or "Open with", that should open them in that way.

- Michael

excellent michael !

I think it sounds best, the different options sound very logical

...nice job Micheal - I will look forward to that!!