ChazHS Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Does anyone know where there are some good Apple OS-X programs (universal binaries prefered) for CAD stage design including fixtures etc? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Vectorworks 12 for OS X http://www.nemetschek.net/spotlight/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benweblight Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Thats all there is I think <_< It suprises me we havent seen more software for Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny DMX Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 You can get a piece of software called "boot camp" which allows you to install windows onto your intel mac. You can then boot your mac in windows and install any windows program onto it, for example WYSIWYG or Capture or whatever you prefer to use. Theoretically windows will actually run your programs faster and with more stability than on your PC. I have heard that the most stable way of doing this is to have two hard disks on your computer, one with OSX and one with Windows. When the computer boots, the one you are not using goes into "hibinate" mode. Boot camp is currently avaliable as beta software and can be found if you do a google search. I do not use this myself, this is what I have heard and may be the cheapest way of using the software you feel most comfortable on. I use both Vectorworks and WYSIWYG and find them both to be great pieces of software although they both have their pros and cons, it all depends on how you want to use it. Hope that helps. (p.s you will need to purchase both OSX and Windows for this to work) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Bootcamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonW Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Firstly, Bootcamp won't make your machine run programs "programs faster and with more stability than on your PC". All that it does is set up your hardware, and provides drivers, such that to all intents and purposes your Mac becomes a PC for Windows to operate on. It is, of course, Intel only. The other option is to run Parallels. This provides you with a Windows machine running within your Mac OS X desktop. It is slower than running programs under Bootcamp, but has the advantage that you can have Mac OS X and Windows applications running at the same time. Wysiwyg runs tolerably (or as tolerably as Wyg gets) under Parallels for CAD purposes, but I wouldn't like to try serious rendering or simulation in this mode. As others have noted, you will need to buy a seperate Windows licence for both of these solutions. Simon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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