Walter de Maria's Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown
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That's interesting guys, i think in my case it might make a big difference. I often have multiple files in sketchup open at the same time. For example i often copy out a detail of a model into a new window,cmd C,cmd N (paste in place works fine). Or i can move geometry between open projects. Obviously this slows everything a little especially if you have 10 wrought iron gates from the warehouse open ! I won't get into a mac pc fight right now.There are bonuses on each side for instance i have read 3D studio max works great (more stable) under bootcamp. For now i want to stay in one environment. I believe maxwell is established on the mac while Thea has great prospects. Autodesk have made a lot of movement in the mac os perhaps the holy grail is 3D studio max natively. Building PC's is a no no for me i could never match the inside of a mac pro ! Thanks again Brodie your responses are very usefull.
(ps never buy apple ram or hd's)
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@chedda said:
Olishea i will look again at Thea, it uses the GPU for rendering ? Again a windows environment i think ?
At the moment, Thea Render does not use GPU with with it's interactive renderer (IR). One have a option to use biased or unbiased modes with the IR. GPU support for rendering is on the road in some early point of 1.x versions. You may want to watch a resent Thea Showreel at youtube. There is a promotional offering while Thea Render is in beta phase. Thea comes with 32&64-bit Windows, Linux and Mac builds (Mac 64-bit build should be ready with 1.1 release).
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I can understand wanting to buy a put together pc/mac from a warranty/support standpoint. But otherwise, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss putting a pc together. There's really no art to it. You want to watch some youtube videos first just to see it done and make sure up front that everything will fit together but really it's mostly just plugging stuff in.
Keep us posted on your decisions. Look forward to following your progress.
-brodie
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Ok Brodie, this interview is quite compelling:
Exclusive: AutoCAD's Fateful Return to the Mac
In this exclusive feature report Autodesk talks to Architosh about their fateful return of AutoCAD to the Apple Mac platform after nearly two decades absence.
Architosh (architosh.com)
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Yeah, it sounds like they've put some time into it's development, which I suppose you'd have to for that sort of thing. He seemed to skirt around the questions regarding what sort of meaningful changes were put into the mac version (...um, it's prettier and the UI is less costumizable, but you have 2 color options?). And the guy who piped in at the end seemed a little overly defensive regarding autodesk's relationship with apple. It felt a bit like the guy being accused of being a racist who says, 'well, i've got a lot of black friends!' (or in this case we bought maya which is on the mac and there are lots of people here who have iphones).
All in all, I'd say that it's a good sign for mac users that they've created the mac version and I suspect it will work just as well as the windows version.
-Brodie
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