I was just going to just reply directly to Paul, but I figured there might be another OpenSolaris user that could benefit from my trials and tribulations.
Paul, I'm not exactly sure where it is exactly myself. Personally I haven't used Pro/E since college. It's part of Manufacturing is all my Engineers are able to tell me at the moment. From there you have access to Gpost and Vericut. Vericut is actually a third party app integrated into Wildfire, well Sparc and Windows versions at any rate. As far as I understand Vericut simulates the paths the CNC machine will take, so you can see if their is a problem before you actually try it on your CNC machines..... Our PTC reseller rep just happened to be in town today and gave us access to the Sparc version of Wildfire. Downloading that now. Just sent an email to Transitive to rerequest a trial version of QuickTransit. I'm hoping that the Sparc version runs as well as the Sparc version of Adobe did in QuickTransit. If that's the case we're going to be getting QuickTransit and we'll finally have access to the missing Wildfire features and Adobe Reader. I don't think I can wait to 2009. I also tried installing the x64 version of Wildfire in OpenSolaris 2008.5, but got: Starting PTC.Setup, please wait ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/install/PTC/WF3_M070_Solaris_x86# ld.so.1: AAAxAaGtb: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory Pretty much expected that. I'm gonna try installing the motif packages from SXDE into OpenSolaris 2008.5. Not expecting too much out of that exercise though. I'll probably just install Solaris 10 U5 on that machine. I would just like make things a little easier for our Engineers by giving them a more recent Gnome experience that OpenSolaris 2008.5 has. As far as window focusing issues, I'm not positive, but I don't think we are experiencing those. I only have one of the engineers using that version of OpenSolaris. He's the most vocal of the group regarding stuff like that, so if there was a problem I know I would have heard about it. :) I do know he is an avid user of Desktop switching too. Paul Gress wrote: > Aaron, > > I'm at work now, so my Pro-E is on Sparc. At home I have it on > Solaris 10 X64 and on my Laptop it's on OpenSolaris Nevada B89. At > work I have both WF3 and WF4, I looked for the Vericut feature you > talked about, but cannot find it. So, could you please tell me where > it's located, and I'd be happy to check for you. > > Also, as Alan stated in his e-mail, Adobe announced Acroreader is > being ported to X64, what I hope for is that it will be integrated the > same way as with the Sparc and Windows versions. > > I wasn't brave enough to try OpenSolaris 2008.5 (Indania) yet, as > Motif is completely stripped out as compared to Nevada which is > reduced Motif. > > Also, do you get any of the window focusing issues when your working > on more than one part? > > > Paul > > > > Aaron Wilson wrote: >> Yeah my ldd output was similar but I have Wildfire 3.0 >> This is even more off topic, but Paul, does Wildfire 4.0 on x64 have >> Vericut and the ability to post process G code? The options are there >> in WF3, but they never got ported from the Sparc version to the x64 >> version. >> >> As far as Adobe Reader, don't hold your breath :) >> >> At my office we're considering QuickTransit for >> Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86 by Transitive so we can run Sparc >> applications on x64 rigs. That would in theory allow us to run the >> Sparc version of Wildfire and hopefully regain access to Vericut and >> the post processor. It would also allow us to run Adobe Reader that >> Adobe has ported to Sparc, but seems to refuse to port to x64. I have >> confirmed the Sparc version of Adobe Reader runs fine with >> QuickTransit trial version, well at least on Solaris 10. >> >> I'm installing OpenSolaris 2008.5 on one of my Ultra 20s right now. >> Gonna see what happens with Wildfire. I think I read on google that >> some people have installed the motif pkgs from the Developer editions >> of Solaris, though in no way supported by Sun. We shall see..... >> >> >> Aaron > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
