I’m a long Abaqus user and I wanted to learn and switch as much as possible to Ansys, but the fact I cannot run mechanical really puts a spoke on my wheel. For many reasons I have had macs as my personal computers for a long time, it was just recently with the advent of apple silicon that I saw the opportunity not carry around 2 laptops, it might still be a niche for sure, but it does offer some very attractive advantages for me. In my experience, a good laptop can still solve fairly complex problems without the need of a cluster. Thank you very much for the follow up, and yes, you’re correct most of the simulation tools for solid mechanics of fluid dynamics works on Windows or Linux and given the somewhat steep price tag of a mac a laptop, some win laptop can offer more than enough power for a fairer price. When I bought my first PC Mac OS didn't have a Fortran compiler available, and at nearly twice the price for the hardware it meant engineering students went towards desktop PC.Īs a question, how many CAD packages work well on Mac, and how many of the latest PC games run well on first release? If any of this changes then Ansys will review the supported platforms. What you may find is the Linux builds can run on Mac, but I've never known anyone try it, and Student isn't built for Linux. I also teach at a University for a session most years, out of 50-100 students I rarely see more than 1-2 with Macs: that may be a UK bias but I suspect not. The bulk of Ansys compute is done on clusters, historically on UNIX/Linux and, more recently, Windows. We do monitor what's used in the world, but other than some laptops I don't see Mac OS anywhere. So it's not all that surprising that the emulators hold all the graphics stuff but not enough of the other libraries. GUI side is fairly easy, it's when you solve that all of the maths, numerical methods etc kick in.
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