What about Mac Varsions?

Do you have a mac version of any of your products?

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hi, i´m wondering why there are no version for mac-users? a lot of designers work on macs nowadays and i think that number is increasing. do you have any plans on making a mac-version?

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 22, 2012 at 5:51am

The Rendering Engine we use - AccuRender nXt - is currently not available for the Mac.

We are very aware that there are a lot of Mac users who would like to use IRender NXt.

Some users are able to use IRender nXt with one of the Virtual machines (PC Emulators) such as Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. I know that is not an ideal solution, but it may let you try out and use IRender nXt for now.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 22, 2012 at 5:51am

can an skp file saved on a Mac be opened in Windows

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 22, 2012 at 5:52am

We searched Google for:

"can an skp file saved on a Mac be opened in Windows"

and opened this link:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=43784

and this one:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/sketchuphowto/A...

It sure sounds to me there like the files are portable between the Mac and a PC.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Morris on October 23, 2012 at 11:18am

I have worked on both platforms and opened models made on one platform in sketchup on another platform with minimal issues - textures and scenes occasionally seemed to throw up a problem but nothing that couldn't be resolved. Layout does however completely re-format text between platforms which is a pain in the ...