Re: If you own Carrara and Amapi why buy Hexagon 2005-05-11 - By Bob Dawson
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Hi, Cecilia.
And good riddance to Amapi, I say. It's not that you did anything to
Amapi to cause it to behave like that. It's a terrible, terrible thing
when good programs go bad, and Amapi is just a program gone bad.
Switch to Hexagon, grow nails and enjoy life.
Best,
Bob Dawson
--- In Carrara@(protected), Cecilia Ziemer <ziemer@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi, Bob--
>
> Yah. After Amapi 5 wouldn't work (in spite of my camping on tech
> support's nose) I skipped Amapi 6, but Amapi 7 behaves just like v5--
> two Amapis and two Macs later and a switch from OS 9 to OSX.
>
> Now that there's Hexagon I'll quit trying to run it -and chewing my
> nails wondering what awful thing I'm doing that kills it ;-).
>
> Cecilia
>
> >Hi, Cecilia.
> >
> >Tust me: you weren't alone on having trouble with Amapi on a Mac.
> >After all the money I spent on Amapi (6 and 7) it never would work
> >properly. I finally gave up and started modeling in Cinema 4D.
> >
> >I have high hopes for Hexagon.
> >
> >Bob Dawson
> >
> >
> >--- In Carrara@(protected), Cecilia Ziemer <ziemer@(protected)> wrote:
> >> >--- In Carrara@(protected), "bones3d_mac" <bones3d@(protected)> wrote:
> >> >> Yeah, same situation here. Hexagon flies under 10.3 on a G5.
It's a
> >> >> major improvement over Amapi Pro 7.5 in terms of stability and
> >> >> responsiveness.
> >> >>
> >> >> --- In Carrara@(protected), Cecilia Ziemer <ziemer@(protected)>
wrote:
> >> >> > Hexagon runs very well on my Mac (Amapi seldom runs at
all...) and
> >> >> > the tool set knocks my socks off. It's agile-- not a lot of
> >> >> > beachball showing here--
> >> >> >
> >> >> > -Cec
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Wow this is great news. I could not even learn Amapi because
of the
> >> >constant crashes on
> >> >my Mac. I am now running a DP G5 too so would you say that it
is as
> >> >fast or faster then
> >> >the Carrara UI? I guess as long as it is faster then Amapi 7
and is
> >> >stable, that's good
> >> >enough for me. I really want to learn more advanced modeling other
> >> >then what Carrara
> >> >offers, and i think Hexagon is the ticket!
> >> >
> >> >Thanks All,
> >> >
> >> >RM
> >> >
> >>
> >> It's _fast_. Even on an old G4. I've cloned bunches of spheres
onto
> >> bunches of support spheres with no big bog-downs happening (Declone
> >> to export as .car files). It handles Add Thickness to lines too
(and
> >> whole edge -wireframes- detached from their objects) which is
> >> something I've wanted in Carrara. And like everything else, it does
> >> it speedily.
> >>
> >> Maybe that speed comes from it's not having to carry lots of lights
> >> and shader and keyframe information that requires updating --it's
> >> business is with modeling only.
> >>
> >> Interesting. I thought I have had the only Macs that had issues
> >with Amapi--
> >>
> > > -Cecilia
> >
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