Screencast: Run the ARE Practice Exams on your Mac

How do I see the info for mac ARE practice software?

I get the following error message when installing the .exe file.

###ERROR### Command '/Applications/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine /Users/eharrold/Desktop/A.R.E./CDSsetup.exe' returned status 2.

Task returned with status 15.

Any suggestions?

Hi Anthony,

Everything was working great until I created a custom prefix - while I'm installing, it gets stuck on "coreaudio" and I get a noice that says that an error occured during creation of the prefix. The log reads:

###BOTTLING### Create .app...

###BOTTLING### Turn on Coreaudio...

err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out

###BOTTLING### Sandboxing...

find: /Users/computer/Desktop/Schematic Design.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/computer: No such file or directory

### LOG ### Command 'find /Users/computer/Desktop/Schematic Design.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/computer -name * -type l -exec sh -c rm "{}"; mkdir -p "{}" ;' returned status 1.

###ERROR### Command 'find /Users/computer/Desktop/Schematic Design.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/computer -name * -type l -exec sh -c rm "{}"; mkdir -p "{}" ;' returned status 1.

Task returned with status 15.

Thanks!

Thanks for this informative video...Just got myself a 2011 iMac with Lion pre-installed and I know I can download xcode from the Mac App Store but but what about X11?

Not sure if I can get my hands on this piece of software since Lion is not a packaged software.

WOW - just followed the step by step video in preparation for ARE. It's working wonderfully - your tutorial is perfect - thank you so much!

Anthony - you rule! I have my first exam in a week. This tutorial was super clear and easy to follow. Seems to be working with no problems. Thanks so much!

Thank you so much! I wish I could buy you a real bottle of wine! This has been a life saver. Leave it to NCARB to make something difficult.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This was so easy by just following your tutorial. Who knows when NCARB is going to update their systems and become more universal...but until then, thank goodness there are people like you out there!!

very good screen cast sir. Very very helpful, worked like a charm, i followed all your steps running an imac 2.8 core 2 duo with Leopard and have had no issues. Thanks again for the thorough walk thru.

Thank you Anthony and Pearl for figuring out how to do this!! I was dreading not being able to practice the vignettes, but now thanks to you I have it on my Mac! I'm passing on this page to my other archi friends. I def. donated to Mike of Winebottler in thanks; how can I send you guys a nice gift card as well? :)

Just perfect, thanks for the detailled step by step explanation.

many thanks, anthony!

Thanks! You are my hero!

I've just downloaded the schematic design practice program. It all installed with no issues, but now that I've opened it, I can't seem to actually do anything in it. None of my tools do anything. Did I miss something?

Thanks,

Karla

Hi Anthony - thanks for screen cast! Have you figured out how to install alternate vignettes for the Mac version? I've attempted to replace the .DWG file with the alternate .DWG file, but the plan never seems to change in the program. Thanks.

Thank you so much for posting this video. Makes studying that much easier here at home.

Great video!

Thanks so much for this. I'm so tired of using my barely functional old laptop to run this software.

Awesome - I can't thank you enough for having figured this out for the MAC. Now I can practice at home vs. being stuck at work.

Much thanks!

Anthony,

This is amazing, thanks so much! just FYI, on the new Lion machines, X11 is already on the computer, and I think XCode is too, but you can go to the AppStore for XCode.

Thanks again, I was getting worried about how I was going to study!

Thanks Anthony, brilliant tutorial. Now that I got the NCARB software running on my mac I would like to find out how to get the alternate vignettes installed. I know Ben asked this already 2 month ago but I don't see an answer. I assume your wife is licensed now and you moved on........(?)

Thanks again

Seka

I would like to follow up with #19 Ben's comment and see if there is a way to install alternate vignettes using Wine and X11. Any and all help would be great. Thanks

Thanks so much. I can't believe all the hoops we jump through to be architects. At least you made it easier with this video. Much appreciated!

Finding your tutorial today was such a relief. I had everything up and running in no time. Much appreciated!

YOU ARE AWESOME!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Anthony you rock! Thanks bro! I got a iMac with Lion... I just bought Windows 7 Ultimate for bootcamp to run these vignettes... and never read the NCARB website... DOH! Works like a charm. Wishing your wife best of luck on the exams! Thanks again!

Anthony, I tried this a while ago and worked great. Thank you very much. However after a few months of not using it or studying, I came back to the softwares (all of them) and when I opened it, all the text was replace by square boxes. The commands and program still seems to work but all the fonts are gone, including the command fonts at the bottom of the screen. Which makes it virtually unusable since you don't know what distances you are entering. I tried reinstalling them and it's the same issue. Any thoughts? Thanks for you time. Highly appreciated.

I've been looking for a solution and ran across your wife's post on the HOK blog site and followed the link to here. Just followed your instructions. OMG!!!!! Needless to say, it worked as easily as you made it look! I'll me sharing this with all my fellow MAC users. Thank you, the architecture community thanks you!

- Manuel

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Successfully launched it on a macbook air with Mountain Lion. 3 notes: the wine bottler installer does not go through the install wizard-just skips that step. The practice program icon on the desktop is non existent-only the text with a transparent icon box. Lastly, I had to open X11 (Xquartz) before I could open the program, otherwise the program will not actually launch.

But again, thank you so much for your time and effort in this!

Anthony, SO incredibly helpful. Very thankful to benefit from the work you did for your wife. Hope her tests went well. Thank you very much for sharing.

http://www.areforum.org/forums/showthread.php?286292-More-Alts!&highlight=site+zoning

Anthony, is there any way to fuse the info from this [above] areforum.org post with your walkthrough of Winebottler?

Regardless, your original info has been great.

Thank you for posting! Grateful for people like you who are willing to take the time to help those of us architects who are mac-centric, yet not well enough versed to have figured out the PC v. Mac issues our for ourselves.

Very grateful for people like you who take the time to help us out! best of luck to your wife and all of us out there who are going through the exams!

This is tremendous! Thanks so much for putting this together. NCARB needs to hire you.

Thanks for this awesome tutorial ! i just installed Wine Bottler and everything works fine ! i'm going to start practicing my vignettes today !!

Thank you so much. It works wonder! Question, how do you install alternate practice graphic?

Anthony,

I got the same error as Alice did but I didn't see any response or solution to this. My install got stuck on "turn on coreaudio" and it times out. I'm not sure what the problem could be, I followed every step exactly.

Any ideas?

I'll post the error message separately

BOTTLING Create .app...
BOTTLING Turn on Coreaudio...
err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
###BOTTLING### Sandboxing...
find: /Users/Home/Documents/Mike/Practice Vignettes/SPD Practice Vignette.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/Home: No such file or directory
LOG Command 'find /Users/Home/Documents/Mike/Practice Vignettes/SPD Practice Vignette.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/PortoHome -name * -type l -exec sh -c rm "{}"; mkdir -p "{}" ;' returned status 1.

ERROR Command 'find /Users/Home/Documents/Mike/Practice Vignettes/SPD Practice Vignette.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/users/Home -name * -type l -exec sh -c rm "{}"; mkdir -p "{}" ;' returned status 1.
Task returned with status 15.

Beautiful! Thank you so much. It works now!

fantastic, thank you very much

how do you make the alt vignettes work? or can they?

Hey Anthony - great video post! The standard practice problems work great. Can you lend some advice on how to make Wine navigate to the substitute alternative problems available on the forum?

Thanks!