AutoCAD Plant 3D 2022 install on Parallels 18 on Mac with M2

[Noetland]

I´m trying to install Plant 3D 2023 on Parallels 18/Windows 11 on Mac/M2 and it fails 56% on the way. The fix is a hint to install the latest version of Desktop Licensing service, but it does not help, installation stops at the same place. 

Installation of AutoCAD 2023 went smooth and works perfectly. 

What am I missing.

Any help appreciated. 

///Jan

[h_eger]

Dear @Noetland ,

Autodesk AutoCAD Plant 3D 2023 is not supported by MAC OS.

[Noetland]

I know Plant 3D is not supportet on Mac. However Parallels is a virtualisation platfor for Mac with any CPU, Intel or Apple Silikon. It even alows to install Windows 11! 

I installed AutoCAD succesfully and it runs better than on any Intel based machine I ever tested. 

So, why can´t I install Plant 3D?

[h_eger]

Then you will have no choice but to install Windows 11 in your virtual environment and with it you can also install AutoCAD Plant 3D.
But I doubt whether this variant is even faster than my Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-11955M CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.61 GHz with an NVIDIA RTX5000.

[Noetland]

This is exactly what I try to do…

[h_eger]

What does the installation log file say?

[Noetland]

Please have a look at attached LOG files. Hopefully it could make sense to you. 

[h_eger]

Der @Noetland ,

unfortunately no good news your setup breaks with 1603 in the bootastrap.

[ wWinMain ] Bootstrap exit code: 1603
This tells us that there is a compatibility problem.
please update system might help

[Noetland]

Thank you for your help, and, yes I have tried every posile sugestion to fix it. What I don´t understand is that I have successfully installed AutoCAD, AutoCAD Archtecture and Navisworks - they all work great. 

I have also tested all the availble versions of Windows 11 from 21H2 throug to 22H2 developer build. Same result... 

But I´m not giving up just yet. I´ll let you know. 

[h_eger]

If you try it 6 times and get the error message "Bootstrap exit code: 1603" 6 times, do you really think it will get better the 7th time?
No, only a complete uninstallation of all Autodesk AutoCAD products and a complete cleaning of the registry will help.
only then you have a chance to install the products again with a little luck your MAC will accept the installation under VM environment.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/de/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/DEU... 

[Noetland · Accepted solution]

Got it working! The solution was to use the ODIS files from my AutoCAD Architechture installation files and then it installed although I got an error message abut Advanced ODBC not beeing able to configure... I just ignored that and the installation went through. 

After just a couple of hours testing, I can confirm that all my projects are working: Single user/local SQLite projects, Vault based projects and Colaboration projects are working just fine. In fact with excellent performance. I´m not going to give you credit for the solution although your tip about incompatibility in bootstrap put me in the right direction. 

Thanks again. 

///Jan

[adam.jonesL3KJ7]

Hi i hope you can help I have this exact same problem and do not know how to rectify it. Please could you let me know how you did it? Thanks in advance

[Noetland]

Look at my solution above: 

I created installation files for AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Plant 3D. 

Deleted the ODIS folder in the Plant 3D installation and replaced with the ODIS folder in the AutoCAD Architecture installation. Ran setup and the SW instaled with a couple of ODBC errors which I ignored. 

Hope this helps. 

[pa.afonso]

hello @Noetland, are you still running plant 3d with mac? did you tested it on newer versions?