topic Re: Inventor support on macOS in Inventor Forum

Inventor support on macOS

Jaroslav_Reichmann — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:13:52 GMT

Hello, I wanna ask you, when will come a support Inventor on a macbook? Because a lot of people think mac is really good for it, mac has really good components for it. You can run on it Fusion 360, AutoCad but the Inventor can not. I don’t know if anybody asked it, so don’t hate me for it. Thank you for answer. By the way, sorry for my english skills

Re: Inventor support on macOS

CCarreiras — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:17:46 GMT

Hi!

I believe Inventor will never work in Mac system... unless you use a Windows emulator.

Re: Inventor support on macOS

johnsonshiue — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:24:49 GMT

Hi Jaorslav,

I am not aware of a near-term plan to enable Mac support. If you want to use a mechanical design, documentation, manufacturing, simulation software from Autodesk natively on Mac, you may want to try Fusion 360, which does support Mac natively.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor support on macOS

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:27:47 GMT

As @CCarreiras mentioned, you'll need an emulator.

It's been years, but if I recall the names correctly the two main ones I've seen that work pretty well were Bootcamp and Parallel (Not sure on that name).

Expect a lot of lag though, or at least that was the issue I saw back then.

Re: Inventor support on macOS

LT.Rusty — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 01:42:56 GMT

I use Parallels to run Windows 11 on my MacBook Pro, and I have a better user experience with it than I do with my company-issued Dell, in spite of objectively worse hardware and the virtual machine. (9th gen i9 / 32 gb vs 10th gen Xeon / 96 Gb), and I only give the VM half of my cores and RAM. I do need a mouse for it though, as I haven’t figured out some parts of the trackpad setup.

not sure if it will work on a more modern Mac, though: I bought the last of the Intel machines and maxed it out as much as I could, to give Windows for ARM to catch up.