Trying Inventor via browser or other virtual?

[valbotany]

Could anyone tell me whether or not it is possible to do a trial of Inventor without installing it on your computer?

I am considering doing some work at a company that uses Inventor, and would like to do a trial of if ahead of time.  However, I am a Mac user at the moment, without a PC on which to install a traditional trial copy.

Is it possible to do a trial of Inventor using an online version that runs in a browser?  If this is difficult or not possible to do (as a trial), can anyone advise on success to be expected doing something like installing Inventor on an Amazon WorkSpace and running it from there?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[johnsonshiue]

You could try using VMWare image or Virtual PC to install Inventor trial version, but you do need to have the OS image to begin with.

Thanks!

[valbotany]

I am really hoping there is some other way to do it than that.

I really don't want to go to all the trouble of installing several applications and a new OS just to try one software.  There's also the matter of hard drive space, which I'm running low on as an SSD user.

I thought there was a web browser version of Inventor.  Is it not good and/or available to try as a trial?  Although I have seen several announcements of the product (like in the link above), I have not been able to find much current information on it.  Not even on Autodesk web site.

I could install Inventor on an Amazon Workgroup (virtual Windows machine), but I am suspicious that the 3D performance won't be adequate.  Would love to hear if anyone else has had experience with that though.

[blair]

Try the cloud based Fusion 360: http://fusion360.autodesk.com/about

It's Inventor and not Inventor, it does have a small app that installs on your local machine.