Developers of many CAD software products have recognised the growth of the OSX market for CAD software and are responding by developing CAD for OSX (especially Leopard and now Lion) either from the ground-up or as an extension of their Windows based programs. Two things have happened quite recently in favour of taking OS X machines seriously for CAD work.
#Xara 3d os x mac os x#
In recent times the OSX of Macs Leopard® and Lion® and Microsoft’s Windows 7® are more similar than ever, and with the huge uptake of the Mac OS X in industry, more and more people have been asking for serious CAD for OS X systems. They are also totally inaccurate and therefore cannot be relied upon when measuring or scaling. Bitmaps on the other hand simply end up with bigger dots when scaled up and jagged edges as the dots become more visible to the naked eye. Vectors can also be scaled up of down without compromising the appearance of the drawing or model. The advantage of vectors over bitmaps is that vectors accurately describe the world in 3D with dimensional precision. A line for instance is described as two end points and a definition in between those two points and an arc is described as four points, one in the centre, two at either end and another at some point on the circumference. Vectors are a way of describing the world as a series of points in space joined by linear entities. CAD software however is mostly comprised of vector based information and the processors used in PC’s were particularly adept at handling vectors. Bitmaps are a series of dots that make up a photograph or two dimensional picture, they contain data such as hue, colour, light and saturation. The processors used in OSX machines were designed around handling large image files that comprised mainly of bitmap data. Traditionally CAD has been very strong in the Windows and Unix world, whilst the Mac OSX has been best handling the more pictorial realm of desk-top publishing and photo imaging. We touch on the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a OSX for CAD usage and list the current CAD for OSX available in the market.
#Xara 3d os x for mac#
In this article we explore CAD software for the Apple® Mac OSX as well as look at CAD for Mac that is not running OSX.
Cad for OS X (Macintosh Operating System)
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