AN Design Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Will VW 2011 be compatible with the new MAC OS Lion Release in July ? Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 That is a good question. Is there a moderator or a VW employee that may know? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 My guess (and it's really just a guess) is that VW's 2011 will run fine on OS 10.7.x. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 My guess is that Peter's guess is probably mostly right Quote Link to comment
Bob Holtzmann Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I depend on a bootable DVD with Disk Utility on it for occasional maintenance. So when I hear that Mac OS Lion will be download-only (multi-gig download?), I'm not that anxious to get it until all of the details are known. Quote Link to comment
M5d Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 In Lion the OS is the safety mechanism guarding against lost work due to software crashes. The OS will be handling and improving file saving/autosaving with a new feature called versions. It will be like having infinite undos and the ability to retrieve earlier parts of a design that may have changed. I'd guess that these features will require a software update, but hopefully 2011 will see them implemented in an SP before 2012 comes out. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I too like the sound of Lion's Versions, should eventually make the autosave redundant on a mac. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 It runs without any obvious problems on the developer preview of Lion. I doubt support for Versions, etc. will be added to v2011. That's just not the way NV rolls it seems to me. I am hoping, however, that these Lion features will be supported in v2012, including full-screen: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=156214 Quote Link to comment
mrZ Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) to Bob-H: I would suggest getting an 8Gb or larger USB flash drive, creating an .dmg file of the DVD (assume it's a dual layer), mounting the .dmg file & copying the mounted "disk" onto the flash drive. Since most modern macs will boot from USB (if you hold down the option key while you boot - then choose the appropriate boot volume), this will let you recover from a USB drive. Then, you won't be locked in to the DVD drive process. When Lion comes out, do the same "install to USB" procedure with the downloaded image file. ~mrZ miniCAD/VectorWorks user since miniCAD 0.9 VectorWorks/RenderWorks Designer 2011 SP3 SL 10.6.7 macPro 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon, 16GB/1TB, Radeon HD 5870 Edited June 22, 2011 by mrZ Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 No need with Lion. It automatically partitions your drive and adds a 'Recovery' volume you can boot from. Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Not directly related to Vw & Lion- but PowerPC emulation has been dropped on OS X Lion. So any program that relies on Rosetta to run will no longer work, such as Quicken 2007. Before you upgrade, make sure that any of the programs you rely on are not PowerPC-only applications. Macfixit : Testing for Rosetta use in OS X Lion HTH, Tim Quote Link to comment
Guest jkelly Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Just FYI, the following statement was released in regards to Lion compatibility: "Our development team has tested the compatibility of Vectorworks 2011 on every Mac OS X Lion (v. 10.7) seed version available to us. Overall Vectorworks runs well, but we have discovered some minor issues, and we are working with Apple to address them. We will conduct another evaluation after we receive the final release of Lion in July and, if necessary, we will release a Lion service pack for Vectorworks 2011 as soon as possible." Quote Link to comment
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