Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

I just checked out your website. Looks like you do really good work.

I had one question though, what is that Terminator-snake thing?!

[#2]

Ha ha. That is a pipeline Inspection tool (PIG for short). That particular one is for 6" pipe. It is pushed through the pipeline by the product and it measures and logs geometry and corrosion.

[#3]

cmcconnell - I am curuios as to what settings you are using w/ in parallels? How many CPU's do you assign? How much memory? Do you keep Windows Aero activated? 

I too have a new MacBook Pro w/ 8GB ram, and 2.2 GHz i7 Processor. I am running Windows 7 - 64bit on Parallels Desktop 7.

Any other pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[#4]

Hi - I definitely have turned Aero off.  I let parallels take the max ram it needs.  I only have one CPU dedicated.  I disable as much of Windows 7 as I can. 

For the most part My laptop is pretty stable.

We also run Mac Pro boxes under bootcamp.  That works pretty well except there are a lot of updates required to get Windows 7 to run out of the box.

Doug

[#5]

I've just installed Inventor Pro 2013 on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.4 and Parallels 7.0.15055.  Most everything appears to work properly except things like the delete key don't work.  I have to press Shift-Ctrl and then select Delete to get rid of drawing elements.

Have any of you had this difficulty?  Is there a way to make the Delete key work in the standard way?

In advance, thanks for your advice!

[#6]

Hey, I just found the answer after juggling my search terms on this list a bit!:

     Re: Deleting...

     11-28-2011 01:19 PM in reply to: willsutcliffe

     Additionally, on Mac keyboards which only have the Backspace key, you can make it work

     like a normal Delete key by pressing the Fn (function) key along with Backspace.

     Zac Travis
     Autodesk Product Support

Thank you Zac Travis!

Greg

[#7]

Does holding the function key and pressing delete key help? Cory McConnell www.mechanixdesigns.com

[#8]

Yes, that's it!  Fn-<Delete> works on the Mac keyboard.

[#9]

You will find that you can use the fn key to get many of the keys you are used to on a regular windows keyboard. Like fn and the right arrow key is END.. Etc Cory McConnell www.mechanixdesigns.com