“Engineering, which was often lumped into the beat called ‘SciTech,’ once was strong segment for the Macintosh,” Morgenstern reports. “Then in the early 1990s, the platform’s position was weakened and then lost. But now the Mac appears poised for a strong return.”
Morgenstern reports, “One piece of evidence was the release by Computational Engineering International (CEI) of a Mac-native version of the company’s EnSight CFD, software for analyzing and visualizing computational fluid dynamics… In addition, German developer Graebert this week announced its ARES CAD platform for Mac, Windows and Linux, which supports AutoCAD-compatible command line and scripts.”
Full article, including a recounting of how NASA Mac users once got screwed by an idiotic policy of standardizing on Windows, here.
Morgenstern is behind the curve and just trying to sell copies of this crappy Ares CAD package. The next engineering game changer for the Mac will be when one of the main stream CAD houses releases a Mac version of their code. I hope it’s Dassault that comes through.
just my $0.02
Well, since OSX is Unix, why has this taken so long. several HPC applications have been available for Linux/Unix for a long time, but Mac versions have been lacking due to… GUI? Peformance? Compatability?? Hopefully none of the above.
In EnSight can, then please give me Ansys CFX and Star CCM on the double.
Pleeeeease?!?