Install on macOS (preview)

• macOS

Please read this first

On a Mac, Musa CAD’s drawing area does not open yet. The drawing area needs OpenGL 4.5, and macOS stops at OpenGL 4.1. When you start the app, it shows a message explaining this and closes. Mac support is tracked in issue #2.

What does work on a Mac is the command line. You can check drawings and print them to PDF without opening a window, which is useful for scripts and automation.

What you get

Each release page has a disk image for Apple silicon Macs, MusaCAD-<version>-arm64.dmg. It contains MusaCAD.app.

Install it

1. Download the disk image from the latest release and open it.
2. Drag MusaCAD.app into Applications.
3. If macOS refuses to open it because it cannot check the developer, right-click the app and choose Open once.

Use the command line

The program sits inside the app bundle:

/Applications/MusaCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/musacad_app --version
/Applications/MusaCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/musacad_app --check part.musa
/Applications/MusaCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/musacad_app --plot part.musa part.pdf --paper A4

It works exactly as on Windows and Linux. The command line page explains every option.

When will the drawing area work?

The drawing area needs a second graphics back end, either Metal or a simpler OpenGL 4.1 path. The code is already split so that one can be added. When it lands, the release notes and this page will say so.