I am running Paralles 5 and windows 7. The problems I have had have been with the resource hunger of windows 7 and have had to turn Aero off to make it work well. It does otherwise work very well within Parallels. Switching from the Mac to the virtual machine is easy and quick - no more than launching an extra application.
My machine is a MacBook Pro (Laptop) with 8 gig of ram and an Intel i7 chip. I shut the mac applications down as I have max resources set to the virtual machine. This is fine because I have Outlook on the VM as well as Internet explorer. When Autocad is running on my Mac my Mac is a windows machine.
I would really like Autodesk to offer Inventor Suite as a Mac Native product.
Doug
@whunter wrote:
the speed of Inventor ... and the Mac
I don't know anything about Macs, but I saw Kevin Schneider running on a Mac at AU 2009. He said it was the fasted notebook he could find for running Inventor. http://au.autodesk.com/?nd=class&session_id=5457
We have 2 Mac Book Pros running Inventor here, but we are running windows 7 under Bootcamp. From what I have heard, parallels limits video capability.
Hi, I was wondering if you would care to update us on your situation of using Inventor on a Mac. Specifically, have you run into limits in the size of assemblies or complexity of objects?
Thanks,
JON
Thanks for the update! I have been wanting to buy a mac and now I am feeling better about the idea. Is the speed comparable to laptops running nvidia QUADROm cards?
Do you happen to use a 3D connexion Space Navigator? I'm wondering if that 3D mouse will work well too.
Thanks,
JON
Perhaps a better follow-up question would be: How many parts are in the assemblies that require 8gbs of memory.
Thanks!!!
JON
Would you happen to know where Kevin Schneider was getting those benchmarks to claim that macs were the fastest for running Inventor Fusion? I am really looking to get a mac, I just need some more info..
Thanks,
JON
I just checked out your website. Looks like you do really good work.
I had one question though, what is that Terminator-snake thing?!
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.
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.
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
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!
Hey, I just found the answer after juggling my search terms on this list a bit!:
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
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