Michael,

Thanks for the tips. I was eventually able to get everything exported. In fact the geometry that was giving me the most difficulty was an imported step file, that had a very small spring inside one of the larger structures. I hid these, and it was fine.


I have attached a render I did in modo, so you have an idea of the complexity I was dealing with. This is a mock up of physics experiment I plan to build, I use MOI to quickly validate design and make sure everything will fit, how many pieces I need, etc.

I love your software and you are without a doubt brilliant, thanks again for existing!

Hi Paul, wow that is a lot of details, and what an amazing looking experiment! It is so cool that you're able to pre visualize it like this!

- Michael

Amazing shape indeed!

Marc

Awesome Paul! and a fantastic rendering!

Michael T.

Technologic!

Awesome Paul. That looks like some of the stuff we do in SolidWorks with LINACS where I work - except for the rendering, which we can't spend a lot of time on.

Michael,
Thanks a lot for bringing MoI to the Mac platform. I still have a Windows machine but I've been migrating to the Mac platform in the last year. The beta version is working well on the 2011 iMac I got about 6 months ago.

Keep up the good work!

Regards,
fleetfoot

You're welcome fleetfoot, I'm glad that the Mac version has been working well for you so far!

- Michael

How long now until you release a Mac Moi Trial for us Michael?

Just to say it's working really well here. OSX 10.6.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon. Thanks a lot, Michael. Wasn't expecting to see a Mac version anytime soon.

Hi olio,

> How long now until you release a Mac
> Moi Trial for us Michael?

It will be pretty soon, I'm just working through a few last issues. Maybe a few more days, it's often hard for me to know exactly when some kinds of work will be finished though.

- Michael

> How long now until you release a Mac Moi
> Trial for us Michael?

It's been just a bit slow going since for various things I've needed to stop and do some research on the Mac programming model which I wasn't really familiar with before.

- Michael

A matter of days?

That's fantastic!

Well this is great news of course. A lot of our users with a Mac will be very happy after reading my announcement on my forum. (c4dlounge.eu)
They complained about the lack of a Mac version of Moi...

Thanks Michael,

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Ok, just testing a couple of last things... I think tomorrow I'll be able to put out a new OSX build as a public beta.

- Michael

Sounds great Michael!

Best regards
Stefan

That sounds cool. I've announced that on my site as well.

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Hey I'm looking for a new modeling program and came across MoI and was wondering if you had a demo I could try for OSX? I'm ok with a save-disabled alpha/beta test type thing if necessary.

Hi rhadiem, there is not a trial version quite yet, but I am actually right now in the process of preparing one and I expect to have it available later today.

- Michael

wow, great.. glad to hear it, I'll check back later.

btw, I plan on using the 3d tool I purchase for 3D CNC router stuff, so if you happen to want encouragement to integrate something like Cut3D into MoI, feel free to use this message as such. ;)

that's good news Michael. looking forward to trying the Mac public beta, right now I've had to install Vmware and Windows VM just to run the MoI windows trail ;)