UT offers a 'virtual computer' experience to allow students and faculty access to the programs and services of a UT computer lab. They call it VLab. To use it, you must download and install the Virtual Lab client.From that site, you then follow the link to launch the virtual lab. It will always be a Windows 7 environment.
You can install programs within the VLab environment. Thus, you can install Pepakura Viewer on VLab. FYI- once you log out of a VLab session, the program that you installed previously will disappear.
Pepakura Viewer is the free utility that will allow you to open up your Pepakura file (.pdo) and facilitate your models assembly. You can download it to your virtual desktop.
To access your .pdo file you have to first save it somewhere online. You could use Google Drive or your H drive. UT supplies all its students with some space on their file server. This is always available to you as your H drive. Below is a screenshot of how to upload your files to H drive.
In summary, you can use Pepakura Viewer (or Pepakura Designer for that matter) on a Mac using the Virtual Labs service. Below is a screenshot of Pepakur Designer running on a VLab virtual computer (FYI- that isn't my Tron model. You can download it here).
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