Free schtuff: New NURBS modeler

For those that are interested in 3D apps.

Stumbled upon this beta 3D modeler called MoI, or Moment of Inspiration. It kind of reminds me of SketchUp, but for NURBS modeling. Looks promising.

http://www.moi3d.com/

Has nothing to do with SL, but I wish SL would adopt NURBS build tools someday in the future, which would certainly pave the way for freeform modeling with minimal bandwidth overhead.

looks kinda neat. I'll look into it further.

BTW. Speaking of Sketchup:
What's up with it these days? I went to the site today after about a year and was surprised to see a massive change. Looks like they were bought by Google? Wow, I guess they were really impressed by @Last's plugin, huh?

Is the real version of Sketchup still good and useable and supported? I'd hate to see it go the way of the Buffalo

~Lefty

Yeah Google bought them out and is offering the program free of charge. It was also integrated with google earth so you can view your creations directly on the globe; and if you really are feeling frisky, there is a google wearhouse of objects you can upload to or download from.... Everything is becoming so interconnected now it is great!

MoI was written by some guys from the Rhinoceros 3D team. Development of Rhino itself is excruciatingly slow, but is still many a NURBS modelers favourite.

SketchUp remains highly useable and stable. Its still the fastest at modeling boxy and linear items, especially buildings. AutoCAD 2007 for example, has incorporated (copied) many functions from SketchUp, especially the push/pull tool, in a bid to win users over.

LOL. I remember years ago at a Sketchup banquet, the lead sales guy told all of us that they had pattented the hell out of that push/pull tool and we wouldn't be seeing it anywhere else. I didn't really expect that to stay that way but it was a nice idea at the time

~Lefty