inventor on Mac

[Anonymous]

It says that there is no app to open it. What shouldIi do?

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! Inventor is an app running on Microsoft Windows. It is not a native app on Mac. We do have users running Inventor on Mac using emulated environment. Please take a look at the following page. It contains the system requirement for Mac.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticle...

Many thanks!

[blair · Accepted solution]

I run Inventor on both Boot Camp as well as Parallels. Boot Camp is slightly faster as it's a true Windows environment. Using Parallels is much quick to access Inventor as it runs within a virtual Windows environment that doesn't require rebooting your system from either the Mac environment or WIndows environment.   

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi @Anonymous,

Yes, as @blair said, you can run it with boot camp and it works pretty well so far in my Macbook pro.

Thanks

[kelly.young · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anonymous I see that you are visiting as a new member to the Inventor Forum.
Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

Here is a similar question with many consolidated links:

Inventor 2018 on Paralells Desktop for Mac

Hope that helps!

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

[Anonymous]

Is there any future for Inventor possibly running on Mac. I use Bootcamp only to use Revit and Inventor. I would love to eliminate the need to use Bootcamp. I have Autocad and Fusion 360 on Mac, why can't Inventor and Revit be? 

[Anonymous]

buy a pc & the problem with bootcamp goes away

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I have not heard of a plan to release a Mac version of Inventor at the moment. I guess the paid user base is not large enough. Also, supporting Mac isn't free. It requires significant planning and investment to make it happen.

Many thanks!

[Stefanetter]

Hey John
Has there been any more talk about a Mac Version of inventor? for what you posted back in 03-2020 I guess not.

Thanks
Regards Stefan

[DarrenP]

probably not going to happen anytime soon

they would also have to make MAC version of Vault client & the add ins

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am not aware of a plan to support Inventor on Mac natively in the near term. Fusion 360 does support Mac natively. You may want to try it out.

Many thanks!