Creo Rendering Forces Program to Close

[mes92]

Hi

The company I am currently working for has just purchased to Pro engineer's new CAD software Creo. To make things complicated the company only using Mac computers, for numerous reasons. I am currently using VMware to make Creo compatible with the Mac. It works fine as of now the only thing I had to change was I had to by pass the graphic card, but other wise it works nicely. Recently I have been having some trouble with the rendering app. Every time I try to click on a color to use the whole program closes. I have looked all over the internet and have come up with nothing, so if anyone knows how to fix this problem it would be much appreciated.

 

[looslib]

Sometimes management decisions are baffling. Why buy a high-end CAD system and run it on hardware that is not supported. PTC will not offer help unless Creo is running on certified hardware.

Your best bet is to buy a WIntel7-64 bit machine for your CAD work. Second option is to but another CAD system that does support Mac as a certified hardware platform. Siemens NX is certified for Mac OSx in native mode.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[dgallup]

I totally agree with looselib about getting supported hardware but short of that I would put a windoze partition on your hard drive and run Pro/E from that. It has to work better than using a virtual machine. Particularly with the graphics card disabled. That is probably what is crashing the rendering. With out a graphics card you might as well be using a 286.

I think it was Dilberts pointy haired boss who said "How often are you going to do a 3D rendering anyway?" To which Dilbert, eying his mighty 286 powered PC replied, "Apparently only once".

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