Plasticity Vs Moi3D | Which One is Better 

Yep. I was going to post a similar comment. That should be mentioned in every video when comparing these two apps.

MoI is just one man software, very good for quick and efficient work, which is far more important than adjusting the UI to look better, it's simple and yet powerful, that's all I need.

would you mind telling me how you used it for 3D printing? there is no measuring tool and for me it became kind of unusable when changing the grid size.

@@ner0718change to mm, zoom in and go. What exactly were your issues? I do a lot of modelling for 3D prints in Plasticity.

I thought plasticity is but and own. What do you mean by “per year”?

@akaAlias you own the current version... that is it. Read the purchase text. You own plasticity ver 1 and all 1. Versions. You can give feed back and suggestions only while ver 1 lasts. You don't own ver2 by paying for ver 1.

Suggest you read the text for purchasing. For $299 you get all update versions for 12 months!

All updates included for 12 months, including major releases. Quote from thier site "All updates included for 12 months, including major releases" and "Access to the beta program for 12 months - help shape the direction of new features"...

@@SgtMajor82 of course newer version need to be repurchased. That doesnt mean its a yearly subscription.you still own what you buy forever.

has nothing to do with poly modeling tbh

Yes, 22 years I've been using direct cad and I don't think it's unique either- fast yes for absolute sure, but at the expense of model intelligence, an example being, no adaptive patterning memory. I use CAD for manufacturing - Plasticity has little attraction apart from initial concept creation although, what I've already got outpaces my mind and speed, so why change??

I think it's mostly the workflow diffrence. CAD software is designed for being precise. So when you want to rotate something, for example in AutoCAD, you have to select it, set the rotation pivot point, set the refence line your rotating from, then set the rotation angle. And if you do anything in the wrong order you have to start over. In polygonal programs you just select and rotate. MOI is more similar traditional CAD workflows. I like Plasticity because its similar to old school spline modeling.

It's the interface, controls, ease of use, etc. Not what it can or cannot do. Being practical or not.

I agree and I'm not even sure why anyone cares much other than to flaunt their skills. It's 100 bucks to buy the license, I grabbed one just based on that.

It's more about usability for non-engineers. It's a bit like how iPhone generally doesn't have any revolutionary features anymore but many people like its simplicity and ease of use.

Agreed, a tool is just a tool used well in the right hands... but, Plasticity has no Parametric capabilities and a few complain about the lack of procedural associativity's - so a pattern if changed, needs to be a new pattern etc.

lol

No it doesn't mean you will be getting NX functions - In software as in all areas there are Patients, Agreements and ultimate ownerships and existing business relationships to be taken into account. NX is owned by Siemens as is Parasolid. If you think for a second that Siemens will let Plasticity do for a couple of hundred dollars what NX can only do for multiple thousands of dollars per year , then I think you're going to be extremely disappointed. However, Plasticity under the clever ingenuity of it's developers may well come up with something new done in a fast novel way that's beats or rivals of other (probably not ( but maybe if licenced) parasolid based) mid-level competition, but I can't see it ever challenging the full and very necessary Industrial capabilities of NX , Alias or Catia. If Plasticity invented their own modelling kernal then they could take on the world - but it doesn't, thus Siemens will not let Plasticity ruin it's other Parasolid customers as that would hurt them as well. NK has already said on RU-vid prior to v1 that's there's Parasolid functionality he can't have. Also, you can only go by what he does actually say about future direction and capabilities.

@@TAH1712 I agree with what you are saying as Im using NX daily at work. I was merely contrasting it to MOI though, which in comparison has 0 surfacing capabilities (on its own)AFAIK from using it. In Plasticity we are getting new features and surfacing capabilities every 4 months or so. We just recently got Xnurbs on the Studio version (beta so far) and will be getting match edge commands soon. I know that many a software are using their Kernel (like SolidWorks) but Siemens doesn't license their latest versions. I can tell you though, that with the exception of some of the advanced surface blends , and X form( which we have something similar coming) Plasticity has licensed some very robust functionality for some very quick and efficient surfacing. Also a lot of the synchronous modeling from NX has been there for a while which makes it an unbeatable package for the price. It's not parametric but what it lacks in history makes it up in speed. Anyways, my whole point is, Plas isalready light years ahead in development and capability thanMOI.

Blender is hard to learn and hard to use. I do most of my work in Rhino.

Plasticity is not Parametric!

Special for it's speed (but sacrificing geometry associations) I'd say...and special for it's capability (although niche) for it's price.

I'm investigating both products, but I don't think this is right. The plasticity website says (under pricing) ... "Plus, with no subscriptions, you own your software."

where it says is subscription based?