>DesignSpark Mechanical is not supported on virtual platforms." > >I don't know if "is not supported" means "it won't work" or just "we don't >care enough to test".
That's probably because virtual machines don't give you access to the video hardware, which 3D CAD programs rely on for usable speed. Instead you get some kind of software emulation of a video card, which is *much* slower for anything that's graphics-intensive. There is a newer virtualization technology that can give a virtual machine access to the video hardware, but from what I've heard it's not easy to implement correctly, and some motherboards don't do it right. So even if a motherboard claims to support it, it might not. OK, this is what I was thinking of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU I wondered if DesignSpark was cloud-based, just because all the recent "closed-source freeware" seems to be built on that model. Does anyone know if it will work without an internet connection? (I guess we'll find out on Monday.) Someone told me that he'd tried a recent version of FreeCAD and it seemed to work pretty well. I'm not sure how he managed to use it without documentation... There's also something called "solvespace" which is kind of interesting, it has some limitations but I know a couple of people who use it (it's also Windows-only). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/22/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=64545871&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
