MCx on a Mac

[Storkman]

Calling Keebler, the eight ball now?

[Hardmill]

Kannons response :

 

 

 

I think the 8 ball ran ova Keebler

 

 

PEACE

[Kannon]

Sorry..Stevie Wondering at work... I cant see the photo

[TFesta]

I used Gibbs on a Mac in 1988. When Mac was going belly up (so they though) Gibbs stopped making it for the Mac and went Windows only. Mac does offer some extras that Windows can't do. It was a simple system that was great for 2D works. Much faster to program then MasterCam, less mouse clicks too was the big seller. Just glad that Jobs stepped up to save the company.

[Michael Sullivan]

gonna be testing tonight.(on a Macbook pro, not a Wii, x-box 360 or etch a sketch ..lol)

 

will report back with my findings.

 

wish me luck!

[Dan@home]

We actually have a customer with Mastercam installed on a Mac. The side by side with XP thing you guys talked about. He actually loves it, says it does 3d machinning no problems. He says its even faster than the windows PC's in his shop. I wouldn't know how large his files are.

[Michael Sullivan]

Mastercam v9 and X2 MR2 run very well on a macbook pro. I did not have time for an enormous amount of testing but I ran a few operations and setups on a dummy part with no problems at all.

We set up the mac using Apple's bootcamp software to dual boot with Windows XP therefore running Mastercam natively in Windows but on Mac hardware. I did not notice any difference compared to a windows box besides the new Macbook being one slick machine with the back lit keyboard and all. I also did not have time to run the benchmark like I had hoped but have no doubt it will as well as most PC's if not better per the hardware specs of the machine.

In the near future,I will also be running tests of parallels desktop,VMWare and CrossoverMac to investigate running Mastercam within the Mac interface. I will also benchmark those test and post my results.

SO, the answer is yes. Mastercam will run on a mac.

[cajahawa]

The only problem is you need to infect your Mac with Windows LOL.

[FLIPPER™]

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SO, the answer is yes. Mastercam will run on a mac.

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Cool,

Wanna give it a try also.