Worksessions for OSX

Is there a technical limitation that prevents supporting Workspaces on Mac?

Hi Pharris -

Do you mean Worksessions?
If so, according to RH-36512 there are 3 dependencies, two of which have not yet been resolved.
-wim

Apologies for ā€œautocorrectā€ - yes Worksessions…

Where can I see the dependencies? Currently only

SDK RhinoCommon: Worksession class needs work

is visible for me.

RH-49556 SDK RhinoCommon: Worksession class needs work
That actually depends on RH-36512, not the other way around.

But yes, I thought that all links would be shown and that one then gets a 404 when one tries to follow a private link. That doesn’t seem to be the case.

-wim

I’m not sure if this implies there is any active development towards supporting work sessions in OSX

The only thing I see that implies such is the release target of RH-36512 Worksessions not implemented
That was moved from ā€œFutureā€ to ā€œ9.0ā€ a month ago.
-wim

Ok, without getting in the weeds of the various Jira’s etc, from a customers point of view what is the plan wrt either WIP or Prod timeframe (or lack thereof)

I’m afraid that the only information that I have is what is in RH-36512.
It looks like there currently is an intention of getting this into 9.0. Apart from that, (1) that might change, and (2) nobody here knows when 9.0 will ā€œhappenā€.
-wim

Understood.. With the (changes in the) way OSX handles Auto-Saves, beyond any reasonable size model (>5G-ish), Worksessions seems to be (one of) the only ways of having a reasonable workflow.

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is there any update on Worksessions for Mac? Or in the interim/alternative, what advice does Mcneel have for Mac users who have no choice or no intention of moving to Windows, yet have to work on really big models. ?? This is really a fundamental issue.

I get the Mac users are seen a second class citizens, but this feature has been asked for, for literally years now,..

I may be misunderstanding… But if you have enough RAM the size of the model shouldn’t be too much of an issue. ? These days MBP comes with 128gb and Studio Machine with double that.

Not withstanding of the need for WorkSessions for Mac.

Thread title revised to ā€œWorksessions for OSXā€.

If I have a really big model and I want the security of versioning/autosaving etc, worksessions lets me break a really big model into modules. as the worksession file is essentially a link to a number of modules I’m only saving the links and any content created. Saving now is very efficient as I’m not saving the modules just the top level content. It’s not a memory issues. It’s an interrupted workflow every time there is an ā€˜autosave’..