Mac users? I would like to know...
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Hello,
I am now with Ruby for a bit more than two months developing a script aiming my own use but begin to think it might finally turn into plugin. So it could be good thing to integrate this perspective as early as I can and it raises some issues. Although the final design is not yet decided it may require a stand-alone exe I will develop with VS for windows - C# or VBasic but probably not C++.
I know Mac users can run windows exe as I develop stand-alone.exe for long and some users do but I don't know how it works. So :
• Most of all, is it easy to run any exe for windows in the mac environment ?
• Does it require any software or tricky knowledge ?
• Can you run Sketchup in the mac environment and any windows exe at the same time ?Thanks for your reply
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There are several "virtual machine"systems that allow execution of a Windows app within Mac OS X. Three examples are Parallels, VMWare Fusion, and VirtualBox.
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Hi Slbaumgartner,
Tanks for the information. You get right in the core of my issue with your three examples. I spent some time reading features about them and quickly found out VMWareFusion allows for the use of windows application the same you use Mac application, with copy/paste, drag/drop and so forth between both systems. So this means you can run Sketchup and any windows exe at the same time. Good news! even the last seems free of charge. I hope it holds the same abilities.
It look like these examples are easy to install and use. Am I right?
Does a majority of mac users with Sketchup run such virtual machine or just some of them ?Have a good day
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@whydi said:
It look like these examples are easy to install and use. Am I right?
My own experience has been that these VMs are indeed easy to install and to use. They do hog some disk space and share the CPU and memory with Mac OS while running, but these would only be serious problems if you are using an elderly Mac with a small disk and limited memory.
@whydi said:
Does a majority of mac users with Sketchup run such virtual machine or just some of them ?
I have no insight as to how many Mac users employ VMs on a regular basis. I installed Parallels early on because I was afraid of losing things when I migrated from Windows. Time has passed, and I find that today I rarely use it any more. I imagine it depends strongly on what you need to run, that is, whether you can find a suitable native Mac alternative.
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Hi Slbaumgartner,
Right now I have no time to spend learning about virtual machine and Mac OS developing. Never mind! I would rather go for that potential plugin and an extra windows based exe. Anyway there will still be time to switch along the project evolution and there are too many unanswered questions about the project itself.
Tell me. Why did you migrate from Windows to Mac. Fun or need ?
Have a good day
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@whydi said:
Tell me. Why did you migrate from Windows to Mac. Fun or need ?
This was about 3 years ago, and several factors played in. Not all of them might apply to others, and time may have passed some by. I had an HP laptop that developed severe hardware problems (randomly freezing the CPU). I had never been happy with the display on it (narrow viewing angle, lousy color rendition,...) so I went shopping for a replacement. My research led me to conclude that I wanted a laptop with an IPS (in plane switching) display. At that time there were very few such available, and they were all very high-end. The price ended up being within spitting distance of a MacBook Pro Retina. Since Mac OS X is actually a UNIX variant under the covers and I had used UNIX for decades, I felt very comfortable with the OS (something I never felt about Windows). The availability of VM so that I could run any Windows apps that proved essential closed the deal for me. I haven't regretted the decision.
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As regard OS we are often background dependent. In the eighties I knew MacIntosh with its mouse for the first time but things led me to MSdos through an Amstrad that was the only computer with drawing abilities at that computing age of dinosaurs. So I knew all MS systems since MSdos 2.0 , 3, 4, 5, 6 up to 6.22 then Windows3, 95 and following which were a shame until XP. But I kept MS loyal mostly because of the ability to deal straightforwardly with the core of their OS. I knew Interrupt with assembly language and so forth. Never felt good with C all versions. I don't know why. What an interesting time! but we did so few in so much time!
As a developer I was not really free to migrate from Ms to Mac as I have ever known one Mac user for about a (and even several) hundred of Ms users in professional world. May be one of these days I will give a trial to Osx. Who knows?Viewing your profile I learned you use Sketchup in woodworking. Hobby or professional ?
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The PC vs Mac chat is drifting off SketchUp and development for it, so if you'd like to continue maybe we should take it over to the corner bar?
I am mostly retired. I get paid for making custom furniture, but not at a volume I could live on if I were younger. I do all my designs and plans using SketchUp.
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You're right about the sidetrack but it's just a small piece of distraction in a flow of coding! and we are not so far from Sketchup as you may see on that website I made for fun. I am a woodworker hobbyist and never get money from woodworking as I spent all my spare time making small furniture for myself - not enough free time for the others!
Besides the ruby code I am writing these days is a continuation of the pictures on the website that I would like to animate. May it turn to any plugin ? wait and see...
Have a good late afternoon
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