Alibre Inc. announced the inclusion of the simple, yet powerful rapid concept creation and surfacing design tool, Moment of InspirationTM (MoI), in Alibre Design Expert. Created by Michael Gibson, the original designer of the Rhino modeling tool, MoI makes product and concept design easy, fast, and accessible to more designers.
Alibre’s inclusion of MoI into Alibre Design Expert means that customers have the ability to more easily create consumer product designs and also brings uncompromising speed to the concept design phase. “Adding MoI opens up many new doors and opportunities for our customers to create new classes of products,” said J. Paul Grayson, CEO, Alibre. “When you look around you, many of the things that people touch or use on a daily basis have an aspect of ergonomics and visual richness. Optimal design of consumer-oriented products benefits greatly from the additional tools which MoI brings to the table.”
“It’s called Moment of Inspiration because the second you have your moment, your great idea, you want to capture it and get it on the screen in front of you and then build on the momentum of your creative process. MoI is simply the fastest and easiest way to do this on the market today,” said Max Freeman, VP Marketing, Alibre. “MoI is for product designers what SketchUp is for architects.”
Opens Alibre Market to Rendering & Game Development The combination of Alibre Design Expert and MoI also provides a gateway for other 3D CAD programs, such as Solidworks, Inventor, and Pro/E, enabling their native CAD models to be brought into Blender, SketchUp, Maya and any other rendering or game development platform that supports OBJ files. SketchUp output (SKP) is also supported.
Traditional mesh-based modelers have their place, but often you can design mechanical-looking components of a scene substantially faster in a 3D CAD system. For additional MoI product information, please see www.alibre.com/products/moi-for-alibre.asp. MoI is included in Alibre Design Expert, the flagship design suite from Alibre, priced at $1399 and available at: www.alibre.com/store. Alibre Design is also available priced at $99 for Alibre Design 2011 Personal Edition (PE) and $699 for Alibre Design 2011 Professional. For a free trial or for more information, please visit www.alibre.com.
