Inventor Pro for unix systems?

[jlucare5]

I have just migrated from windows 11 to linux mint, and I was migrating all the programs I use on windows. when I went to look for inventor I was saddened to find that all that existed was an old 2014 post
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/autodesk-inventor-professional-for-linux-redhat-centos...
so I just wanted to raise awareness for this again to see if its something that maybe other would like as well to have less programs tieing them to windows, and I believe that inventor pro has a macos version which is unix if im not mistaken so i believe that some of work is already done.

[RajSchmidt]

I’m afraid that this is not going to happen anytime soon. The arguments from the old forum thread are all still valid. Remember, it is not the porting of the software alone. What about the myriad of software Inventor ties in with? Vault? AutoCAD? Nastran? Etc.

And then there are all those different LINUX distributions. A customer would expect Inventor to run smoothly on his one. And of course, support from Autodesk. Would you be ready to pay for that?

In other words, years ago a product manager of another big CAD system asked to that same question: “We’ll supply a LINUX version, no problem. How many hundred licences will you buy?”

[JMR_Silgan]

There is no Mac OS version of Inventor either.  Inventor does run real nice inside Parallels.  Can't speak to M-series Macs, but Intel Macs work well.  On Linux, you might try VirtualBox.