Question about NX on Mac OS

[Dave K]

I've been asked about this, but I'm not a Mac guy...how does NX work on a Mac? From reading, it looks like it's actually the unix/linux version of NX running on X11, on top of the Mac OS? Does this make it laggy, or other quirks? 3D motion controller issues?

-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10

 

[BubbaK]

> it's actually the unix/linux version of NX running on X11, on top of the Mac OS?

It's more like ... MacOS and NX are both running on top of Unix.

But, yes, NX is using X11 and Motif for UI, so it doesn't look like a "real" Mac application, which will cause some people to turn up their noses. And there are a few odd functions that are not available because they are based on third-party SW that's not available on Macs. There's list in the release Notes somewhere, I think.

 

[RAGudorf]

I did some testing a couple of years ago with a MacPro (aluminum box generation) running OS-X Snow Leopard and Win 7 on a separate drive running Boot Camp. The performance results all slanted to the OS-X version of NX. Primarily speed benefits while computing or recomputing patterns, etc. They were in some instances 10x faster. I probably attribute that to OS-X and Unix under the hood running things.

The bad part, it's NX running in X11 and nobody here could get over the 1980/90's Unix menus, etc. It's not a native Mac application at all. If it was written for the Mac, I am sure we would have gone that route as most of us here have Mac's at home, but we ended up on the more familiar GUI with NX on Win7.

There are several good NX on OS-X Youtube videos you can watch and see what it's like.

HTH,
Ryan

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Ryan Gudorf
CAD/CAM Supervisor
Budde Sheet Metal Works, Inc.

Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
Solid Edge V20
NX8.5.1.3
TC8.3 in Testing
32 GB RAM, nVIDIA Quadro K4000

 

[Dave K]

Thanks for the input!

-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10