A couple of users on the TC forums report that they can use current 32-bit TC PC versions, ACIS V29, on ARM Apple and Windows, I don't remember offhand whether it's Rosetta or other virtualisation on Mac, but not 64-bit. I asked whether that gave them the high-end CATIA, NX translators, but that question hasn't been answered yet. I suspect not but I remember Tim saying years back that those were exclusively PC 64-bit when they were first integrated into Shark, I've no idea if that's still so.
That article continues the historic Parasolid/ACIS prejudice. SolidWork developers reportedly tried ACIS when they were a startup, quickly abandoned it for Parasolid because it was clearly inferior at that time. I used TurboCAD Solid Modeler before the turn of the century. It was a lightweight modeller very similar to Alibre, originally developed by Corel and sold as CorelCAD before IMSI bought it. It came with CorelScript scripting and LightWorks rendering of the time, too, which had an external texture/material editor. The initial version used ACIS V2 and it was a bit of a horror, crash prone unstable. Quickly updated to ACIS V4 which was much better. After that, IMSI discontinued Solid Modeller when it made TC Pro 3D, and started introducing the advantages that ACIS gave it into TC Pro, its mainstream line, and also the D-Cubed constraints that were in Solid Modeller, now in PunchCAD, Shark only to V8.
Edited by user Saturday, December 17, 2022 5:40:38 PM(UTC)
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