Alibre Design Install Questions

[LateNight72]

I was reffered to Alibre by a poster here on CNCzone after I said I still haven't been able to get a chance and put solidworks on the new Laptop.

Anyways, I go to install Alibre and it says I need to install Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. My question is, is there any way around installing this? What will this program (MJVM) affect if I do install it? I am currently running MS Vista Ultimate. I do not have any CAD/CAM programs installed yet, if that matters. I use this computer more for entertainment/gaming/every day computing more than I will eventually design. But I will eventually be forced to install AutoCAD & Solidworks (College Student).

Any input? What is the purpose of MJVM ?

Thanks,
Todd

[dneisler]

Alibre 9.2 and older are written in Java, so you must have the Jave virtual machine for them to run. Alibre 10, available next week supposed to be all .Net I think I read somewhere. The MJVM should not affect anything else that I can think of.

I run alibre on a Media center PC recording TV at the same time. Works fine.

[tjones]

The MSJM is just microsoft's version of java. No harm.

[LateNight72]

Installed.

Pretty sweet program. Have only had a couple minutes to play with it, though.


Thanks,
todd

[tjones]

There is a major re-write porting to .net but I think there are still some java required in V10. Not really sure but if V10 comes out and it is installed in a system without java then we could find out for sure.