K3DSurf forum

alawrence · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

Does the mac version actually work?

The icon just bounces once and closes on my mac running os x 10.4.8

Is there an installation guide?

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

blackch · Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

I followed the instructions written previously (downloading QT etc.) and am experiencing the same problems. I use a Intel MacBookPro with the OSX 10.4.8

Cheer

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

lgarcia · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

I also have the same problem:

I have a brand new (intel) Mac Pro running 10.4.9. I downloaded and installed QtMac336-Mini-Intel.zip and then installed K3dsurf but the App does not start.

After reading some in the ATG website, I think that maybe the right QT to be installed is the QtMac335-Mini-Tiger.pkg.zip even though it is not native intel.

My question is if I need to uninstall QtMac336-Mini-Intel first to avoid conflicts, and if so, how can I uninstall it.

Thank you very much

Luis Garcia

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

dvmorris · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

I am developing an application with Qt as well, and I found a script on the qtnode wiki that allows you to embed the necessary qt frameworks into the app bundle with this script:

http://qtnode.net/wiki?title=Distributing_Mac_Qt_applications

This script is for qt4, but I'm sure it could be modified for qt3. It would be really great not to require users on OS/X to download and install qt3.

perhaps this will help as well:

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/mac-differences.html#6-1

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

Thanks for your interest in K3DSurf

alias_mo · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

Doesn´t work on MacBook Pro (Intel) OS X 10.5.5

crashes with this report:

Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: libqt-mt.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Volumes/Documents/Docs/DLs/k3dsurf.app/Contents/MacOS/k3dsurf
Reason: image not found

any solution ?

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

François LE COAT · Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 28 Location: France

I wish all the best for new year 2009.

May it be better with the help of stunning K3DSurf, and its enthusiastic users Smile

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luc2 · Joined: 30 Oct 2011 Posts: 1

I tried many time to have K3DSurf working on 4 different Mac without success, ( I change my Mac often to be able to render 3D files faster). I check the console and it seem to be related to AppleScript and conflicts with some Photoshop libs ??? Not really helpful...

After reading this forum Francois said something about; it could be better to install QtMac335-Mini-Tiger instead of QtMac336-Mini-Intel, even if logically because I run an iMac with a i7 processor and the last version of SnowLeopard, the intel version seem to be a better choice...

Because I want and really need an implicit equation to 3D mesh software, especially if it can save as wavefront file. K3DSurf is the only one I find that is able to do it and using it in a Window emulator on Mac is kind of pain and I encounter some out of memory problem, finally it suck out all the fun of using it...

Today I tried to install the QtMac335-Mini-Tiger but my mac refused to accept because I have a more recent version of QtMac already install &^%$%#$@!

Now what I did to solve this problem and finally be able to use K3DSurf:

The first thing to do is to uninstall QtMac336-Mini-Intel. Not easy because there's no uninstaller... The first thing to do is to know what was install to be able to uninstall it. I download QtMac336-Mini-Intel.zip, unzip and end up with a QtMac336-Mini-Intel.pkg file, to open it and be able to see what this pakage had install, I use a free software call unpkg.app (it's still available at http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16357/unpkg) with that I know which files and were they are install. They are in an invisible folder call "usr", now I need to make the invisible folders on my Mac visible. Again there many way to do it, what I used is a freeware call InvisibilityToggler.app ( Still available at; http://download.cnet.com/Invisibility-Toggler/3000-2094_4-144627.html)

With that I was able to removed all the files QtMac336-Mini-Intel had previously install.

Now it's time to install QtMac335-Mini-Tiger, my computer still tell me that I can't install it because I have a more recent version of it, I tried a restart same problem, finally I unpack QtMac335-Mini-Tiger.pkg and manually install the files at the same place they are in the installer.

I tried to run K3DSurf and WOW! it work now... Wink

I'm so glad.

I hope this could help some of you to be able to run this great software on your Mac.

P.S. Excuse my bad English, it's not my natural language

nextstep · Site Admin Joined: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 539

Hi Luc,
Welcome to the forum and thank you very much for your advices...it should be very helpful for a lot of Mac users. I (and François ) received a lot of email from Mac users complaining about the same install problem and you seem to have pinpointed the origin of this issue.
Also, I have to say that I'm so glad and proud to have you as a member in this forum: Your work and dedication to the math art field was and still an inspiration to me and for that I can't thank you enough.
Please feel free to share with us some of your work and links in the "New Mathematical Objects" thread, it certainly will be a great value to this forum and it's members Smile

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BrianOBrien · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 2

I followed the above instructions and indeed it works.
Good work luc2

By the way.. The mini tiger installation also installs some mysql tools...
I only copied the QT libs.