Pro-E on Apple

has anyone heard anything on Pro running on Apple OSX? being as its a BSD
Unix core I would think it shouldn't be much of a jump to get it there.....
the dual Processor G5 is a pretty powerful machine and the Unix core OS is
very stable... not that I'm an apple fan, but it sure makes more sense than
supporting Linux being as there are 40 flavors of Linux and only one of
apple...

 

No no no... PTC's the one making the decision here. I'm sure Apple would
love to have a heavy-weight player like PTC in their world. I would
think from PTC's perspective it's all about sufficient market. Same with
Unigraphics... if EDS (did they spin this off?) thought porting to OSX
was profitable I'll bet they'd have already done it.

Still, PTC was one of the first major CAD/CAE packages on Linux, so it's
logical they might be follow onto the Mac. Seems like the UNIX core is
only a piece of it. To get the gui ported there would involve quite a
bit of new code for the Apple unique stuff. Of course, I'm a fair ways
out of my league here.

-meld

 

There is an Xserver for OSX so any app written for the X-window System
should be fine. Though I suppose that performance would be better if
stuff was coded specifically for OSX.

Getting Pro/E running on OSX should be trivial to PTC. Getting a highly
optimized version that matches up with Apple's GUI would be much more
work.

I wonder if PTC bothers to optimize any of their products for specific
platforms.

Regards,

 

guess PTC is bribed by M$ _not_ to do anything in that direction.

ProE was on a lot of UNIXes in the past but nowadays like anything
it has become more and more "design(at)ed for windows". Sigh.

 

Apple uses both Pro/E and UG these days. I'm sure they'd love to have
both running on the Mac, just so their engineers could design using
their own hardware. They've stuck with UNIX because it takes months to
get a req for a Windows machine approved.

 

:
: guess PTC is bribed by M$ _not_ to do anything in that direction.

It may not be quite that bad. PTC last year issued a verion of Pro/CONCEPT for
OSX, in addition to the other systems supported. It's entry into the Mac world was
modest and unheralded but it's still got a foot in the door. What their intentions
are is anyone's guess. It'll be a year after they've actually *done* it that
you'll find out about it, they're so secretive.

David Janes

 

I'd like to add my 2 cents. First, I believe they haven't ported to the
MacOS X, is they haven't standardized (Apple) on X-Windows. X-Windows
is the windowing system under various GUI interfaces (Gnome, CDE, KDE,
etc.). Apple uses their own windowing system. Their drop down menu's
aren't even attached to the windows. My son has a Mac Laptop, in order
to run some re-compiled Linux apps, he had to install an X-Windows
package. Now when he opens up those apps, they at least have the menu's
attached to the windows. All of PTC's supported Unix Operating Systems
have X-Windows, including Linux. Even though you can install X-Windows,
it's not there standard by Apple, therefore basically unsupportable.
I'd really like to run Pro-E on a Mac computer, so my next choice
(dream) is on Sun Solaris X86, v10, thats suppose to be binary
compatible with Linux. Sun better do their job right and get OpenGl
running on it.

Paul

 

: David Janes wrote:
: > :
: > : guess PTC is bribed by M$ _not_ to do anything in that direction.
: >
: > It may not be quite that bad. PTC last year issued a verion of Pro/CONCEPT for
: > OSX, in addition to the other systems supported. It's entry into the Mac world
was
: > modest and unheralded but it's still got a foot in the door. What their
intentions
: > are is anyone's guess. It'll be a year after they've actually *done* it that
: > you'll find out about it, they're so secretive.
: >
: > David Janes
: >
: >
: I'd like to add my 2 cents. First, I believe they haven't ported to the
: MacOS X, is they haven't standardized (Apple) on X-Windows. X-Windows
: is the windowing system under various GUI interfaces (Gnome, CDE, KDE,
: etc.). Apple uses their own windowing system. Their drop down menu's
: aren't even attached to the windows. My son has a Mac Laptop, in order
: to run some re-compiled Linux apps, he had to install an X-Windows
: package. Now when he opens up those apps, they at least have the menu's
: attached to the windows. All of PTC's supported Unix Operating Systems
: have X-Windows, including Linux. Even though you can install X-Windows,
: it's not there standard by Apple, therefore basically unsupportable.
: I'd really like to run Pro-E on a Mac computer, so my next choice
: (dream) is on Sun Solaris X86, v10, thats suppose to be binary
: compatible with Linux. Sun better do their job right and get OpenGl
: running on it.
:

Don't know how it runs, what magic they use, but here is PTC's press release from
its launch at last year's MacWorld:
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/it/icm...da_text_w_sub.jsp?im_dbkey=11690&icg_dbkey=21

And further information on Pro/CONCEPT:
http://www.ptc.com/products/datasheets/proconcept_ds.pdf

 

Thats all about Pro/Concept. The Mac being based for graphics artist,
it makes sense. They don't (Macs) have a reputation for running
engineering software, much less user base. That is basically how it
looks on the surface.

I would really consider using a Mac myself, the Dual G5 is really
impressive. There's no doubt that they can port Pro/E to the Mac, but
it wouldn't fall in line with any other ports, Windows or X-Windows.

I have to commend PTC, there aren't many CAD companies porting to
various platforms, that is one of the many reasons I went to Pro/E. Not
even SolidWorks is considering this.

Paul