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Inventor on ARM based machines / Mac running Windows

Ruud1 — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:19:44 GMT

Hi, a client of mine is working as a teacher and has a lot of students working on Mac-system running bootCamp for Windows. Since the new Mac systems are changing to ARM based processing architecture he was wondering if he would run into issues with his Inventor classes. I've read microsoft is currently testing Window 64-bit to ARM emulation. Has anyone/Autodesk perhaps tested Inventor on a ARM based architecture?

Thank you kindly

Re: Inventor on ARM based machines / Mac running Windows

swalton — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:14:23 GMT

Per Apple, it looks like an Intel based Mac is required to run Windows 10 in BootCamp.

I'd hold off on buying a M1 based Mac for Inventor use until Apple announces Windows 10 compatibility.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468

This article quotes Apple and Microsoft about Windows 10 ARM and BootCamp. Based on it, I would not expect Apple to ever support Windows 10 with BootCamp on ARM-based Macs.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-mac-arm-windows-support-boot-camp

It might be possible to use Parallels as a VM and run Windows 10. Hard to say what the performance impact will be. See: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-silicon-mac/

Re: Inventor on ARM based machines / Mac running Windows

Ruud1 — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:41:25 GMT

I believe you're absolutely right. For now there is no predicting what will happen exactly but it would be unwise to invest in a new Apple system when running Inventor. I was hoping Autodesk could share some results on this as they do with Fusion 360, though obviously Mac systems are not natively supported.

Re: Inventor on ARM based machines / Mac running Windows

DhoffmannFFM3X — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:57:17 GMT

I just posted my results and the problems remaining:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/how-to-improve-graphics-performance-of-inventor-2020-running-on/td-p/10905187