Re: PowerCadd 10
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:17 pm
Todd,
Thank you, your response was most helpful.
Thank you, your response was most helpful.
Totally acceptable for me[email protected] wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:59 pmAs you know, Apple makes it hard to maintain compatibility with older systems. From an engineering perspective, with PowerCADD 10, we are finding it harder and harder to maintain compatibility with a broad range of older systems. Supporting older systems affects the functionality and performance of PowerCADD 10. We have determined that supporting macOS Monterey, Venture, Sonoma, and what comes after yields the best balance of performance and capabilities. Your feedback is essential. We are looking for feedback on supporting only macOS 12 Monterey and above. What hardships will this cause?
Best,
Todd Stanley
As far as I am aware, there is currently no solution for running PowerCADD 9 on Apple silicon Macs. Neither VM Fusion nor Parallels Desktop support Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave) or earlier on those machines. PC 9 is compiled as a 32 bit application and the last Mac OS that can run 32 bit was Mojave.
Honestly, I have picked up a habit of being extremely careful in upgrading my Mac OS as I have learned in the past it might cause issues with software, primarily PowerCADD! Now that I have a separate, old Apple running an old system so that I can run PowerCADD 9, its not as much of an issue any longer. I am presently running Big Sur (11.7.3) on my new machine, which is probably now "old" considering how quickly operating systems get updated, but I do have a "if it aint broke, dont fix it" mentality--meaning my new machine works just fine and I'm busy enough as it is, don't need to invite problems where they don't exist. That all said, if you can send me PowerCADD 10 running on the latest Mac OS, I will happily-HAPPILY- drop thousands to purchase the new software AND new hardware so that my entire office is running the latest PowerCADD--at which point I will jettison Vectorworks and the BIM insanity. I have made up my mind, we are a PowerCADD office and will remain so, my only request is that we get is as soon as possible.[email protected] wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:59 pmAs you know, Apple makes it hard to maintain compatibility with older systems. From an engineering perspective, with PowerCADD 10, we are finding it harder and harder to maintain compatibility with a broad range of older systems. Supporting older systems affects the functionality and performance of PowerCADD 10. We have determined that supporting macOS Monterey, Venture, Sonoma, and what comes after yields the best balance of performance and capabilities. Your feedback is essential. We are looking for feedback on supporting only macOS 12 Monterey and above. What hardships will this cause?
Best,
Todd Stanley