This seems a very useful tool to check out.

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Moment of Inspiration
3D Modeling for Designers and Artists.
Powerful, accurate, yet easy to use!
MoI’s sleek intuitive UI blends a fluid easy workflow with powerful tools, making it the perfect choice for someone who has been frustrated with the complexity of existing CAD tools.

MoI is also a fantastic complementary tool for a polygon-based artist since its CAD toolset and advanced boolean functions enable extremely rapid creation of mechanical or man-made type “hard surface” models. The icing on the cake is MoI’s unique polygon mesh export that generates exceptionally clean and crisp N-Gon polygon meshes from CAD NURBS models.

MoI version 1.0 is not quite finished yet, but it is very close. MoI is currently still in open beta release. If you're looking for a fresh, fluid way to draw and create CAD-accurate 3D models, then download the beta and give it a try! Also, please drop by the discussion forum to give any feedback.

Good tool !

But not for game making.
Too much polygons aand can't compete with a two years experienced modeler
that know how to put the polygons on a character for example !

But good tool for CAO !

expert, check it out before posting... check out the obj export

its a great tool (i checked it out quite a while back) and it can compete with every modeler, plus it offers you options to even create several lod-stages. plus it is a supperb tool, i just dont know if it will remain freee after the beta phase

dunno, but did i mention that its a really great tool?

i believe i read on their forum that it wont stay free (

maybe if we find a lot of bugs and help them enough to improve it we will get a free copy??

, I'm finding it such an amazing tool and hope its affordable when a stable version is released.

The App will be released for $US 195 in the next 2 weeks, version 1.

MoI is a great NURBS app, but therein lies its problems. I will try to illustrate. Here are three images from MoI:







The first image is similar to the tutorial that is on MoI's web site. The second image shows the object converted to quads and the third to triangles. Notice the sections that where filleted (the "smoothed" areas at the joints). Look at what happens to them when they are converted to both quads and triangles. The geometry is a bit odd. You may even notice areas where the geometry is not even: especially odd looking sections in the quad converted version. In fact, a quad version of this model, brought into another 3D application, gave me a lot of problems when attempting to convert it to triangles from there. There were also some areas where there was a stray vertex here or there. In other words, the mesh needed to be cleaned up quite a bit. The already triangulated version imported perfectly but, as you can see, it is overly dense in areas. A lot of cleanup would be necessary to trim it down, especially in the areas that had been filleted.

If you have a 3D application that allows you to redo the topology of the model (Silo, modo, ZBrush) then MoI might be a good tool to rough up complex shapes and then redo the model in the other app. However, at $195, it might be better to get Silo and use its sculpting tools to rough up shapes and then do the cleaner topology. This would save you money and some steps as well.

Hey Dan, thanks for the breakdown and assesment, I hadnt gotten any where that as I was buzzing out on learning the software and musing about its potentials for me.

As always, great post thanks.