Amapi 8 - will be available someday ? - Polyloop

Jerzy · 17th March 2006, 22:29

OK, so now as we have Carrara 5 and Hexagon 2 was just annouced yesterday, exist possibility that Amapi 7.51 will be updated some day ?
Amapi needs some major upgrade to stay along with Hex in aspects like workflow and modeling easyness.
Personally I wish to have same modeling easyness of Hex applied to Amapi next upgrade. Will it be ever possible or I´m a dreamer ? Is universal manipulator possible in Amapi ? Let´s see what happen this year.

sculptn · 31st March 2006, 21:06

Good question. I've been wondering this for awhile too. I'm not so sure I want Amapi Pro to go exactly the same way as Hex, which I have also. I do a lot of modelling in Rhino too and there are many tools in Rhino that I wish were in Amapi: (better workplane controls, curve and surface rebuilding, revolve etc.). The only thing that keeps me interested in Amapi is that the designers of Rhino just don't get the concept of interaction in their GUI, (ie. no widgets no history- execpt rhino V4 finally has it, etc.).

I hope that there will be an Amapi v8. Maybe it could have better reverse engineering tools. Amapi could be a great bridge between the organic design tools like Hex and the Engineering tools to actually make these ideas physical like Solidworks. Amapi could have beeter tools for turning polygonal data to Nurbs like what raindrop geomagic has.

Anyway, just a few thoughts. I've been pretty bummed out, as Hex has gotten all the spotlight, Amapi seems to be kind of forgotten.

-jeff

Naes3d · 31st March 2006, 22:08

Amapi seems to be dead as far as news on updates. It would be a shame to lose it's nurbs power tho.

Piem · 31st March 2006, 22:33

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Originally Posted by Naes3d

Amapi seems to be dead as far as news on updates.

The dev team is the same both for hexagon and amapi (not as important as Walt Disney ,in number ..

) and was also here for helping US team for the new CS5 modeling tools in exemple .
As you know hexagon2 is on the rails and a big work is done while I'm writing those words..days and Nights
That's why Amapi is not dead.
But each thing must be done in time.
Amapi is not dead.
That's my thoughts (imho.. but I am not in the secrets of the Gods)

Naes3d · 31st March 2006, 22:47

It's good to know it isn't dead literally. Still, I've heard nothing about what going on with it's development.

sculptn · 1st April 2006, 04:30

I know that the hex team is the same as that for Amapi and that they obviously have been working very hard, since Hex looks really great these days. I'm just thinking that like Naes3d, it's been a real long time since I've heard any news from Amapi at all as to where the program is headed and I purchased it nearly 6 months ago.
Like I said, Amapi's real competition in this area of freeform non-parametric Nurb modellers is Rhino. Rhino's software team c'est miniscule aussi. But I get a lot of update info from Rhino telling me what's coming next and requests for beta testers for upcoming versions. That's all. I want Amapi to succeed also.
-jeff

17th March 2006, 22:29	#1 (permalink)
Jerzy Vertex Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 25	Amapi 8 - will be available someday ? OK, so now as we have Carrara 5 and Hexagon 2 was just annouced yesterday, exist possibility that Amapi 7.51 will be updated some day ? Amapi needs some major upgrade to stay along with Hex in aspects like workflow and modeling easyness. Personally I wish to have same modeling easyness of Hex applied to Amapi next upgrade. Will it be ever possible or I´m a dreamer ? Is universal manipulator possible in Amapi ? Let´s see what happen this year.

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31st March 2006, 21:06	#2 (permalink)
sculptn Vertex Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 14	Good question. I've been wondering this for awhile too. I'm not so sure I want Amapi Pro to go exactly the same way as Hex, which I have also. I do a lot of modelling in Rhino too and there are many tools in Rhino that I wish were in Amapi: (better workplane controls, curve and surface rebuilding, revolve etc.). The only thing that keeps me interested in Amapi is that the designers of Rhino just don't get the concept of interaction in their GUI, (ie. no widgets no history- execpt rhino V4 finally has it, etc.). I hope that there will be an Amapi v8. Maybe it could have better reverse engineering tools. Amapi could be a great bridge between the organic design tools like Hex and the Engineering tools to actually make these ideas physical like Solidworks. Amapi could have beeter tools for turning polygonal data to Nurbs like what raindrop geomagic has. Anyway, just a few thoughts. I've been pretty bummed out, as Hex has gotten all the spotlight, Amapi seems to be kind of forgotten. -jeff

31st March 2006, 22:08	#3 (permalink)
Naes3d Box modeling Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 231	Amapi seems to be dead as far as news on updates. It would be a shame to lose it's nurbs power tho.

31st March 2006, 22:47	#5 (permalink)
Naes3d Box modeling Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 231	It's good to know it isn't dead literally. Still, I've heard nothing about what going on with it's development.

1st April 2006, 04:30	#6 (permalink)
sculptn Vertex Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 14	I know that the hex team is the same as that for Amapi and that they obviously have been working very hard, since Hex looks really great these days. I'm just thinking that like Naes3d, it's been a real long time since I've heard any news from Amapi at all as to where the program is headed and I purchased it nearly 6 months ago. Like I said, Amapi's real competition in this area of freeform non-parametric Nurb modellers is Rhino. Rhino's software team c'est miniscule aussi. But I get a lot of update info from Rhino telling me what's coming next and requests for beta testers for upcoming versions. That's all. I want Amapi to succeed also. -jeff