Autodesk Inventor on Macbook pro M1
- Thread starter JorenV
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I was able to get past this issue, but still have other issues with my M1 Max and parallels 17.2
The solution you are looking for is simple, yet I don't understand why it works with an intel machine but not an ARM machine....
Solution:
BEFORE you install inventor, go into your parallel settings, sharing, and make sure you do NOT have the Share folders enabled. Basically, I unshared everything, installed inventor, and them went back in and only shared the folder that holds my part files.
Basically, when inventor installs, it tries to put the configuration files needed in "home" folders on the Mac side.... which it does not have access to. By unsharing the Mac drive, inventor will install the "home" folders information on the windows side....
My first issue is inventor is still sluggish, and when you go into the hardware options, it is using software emulation for unsupported graphics drivers.... So, to me inventor doesn't recognize the graphics chip in the M1 Max.
My second issue is with the 3D connexion space-mouse, although installs and works, two of the axis' are reversed. And none of the reverse check boxes within the 3d Connexion mouse settings are responsive. also, when you select the axis' speeds, they also do not change the mouse. I opened the Inventor.xml file that is written during these settings changes, and the "reverse" option is enabled, and when you change the speed, you get a scale factor from 0 to5 times.... all are written in correctly in the inventor.xml file... but the Spacemouse will not respond to these changes
The solution you are looking for is simple, yet I don't understand why it works with an intel machine but not an ARM machine....
Solution:
BEFORE you install inventor, go into your parallel settings, sharing, and make sure you do NOT have the Share folders enabled. Basically, I unshared everything, installed inventor, and them went back in and only shared the folder that holds my part files.
Basically, when inventor installs, it tries to put the configuration files needed in "home" folders on the Mac side.... which it does not have access to. By unsharing the Mac drive, inventor will install the "home" folders information on the windows side....
My first issue is inventor is still sluggish, and when you go into the hardware options, it is using software emulation for unsupported graphics drivers.... So, to me inventor doesn't recognize the graphics chip in the M1 Max.
My second issue is with the 3D connexion space-mouse, although installs and works, two of the axis' are reversed. And none of the reverse check boxes within the 3d Connexion mouse settings are responsive. also, when you select the axis' speeds, they also do not change the mouse. I opened the Inventor.xml file that is written during these settings changes, and the "reverse" option is enabled, and when you change the speed, you get a scale factor from 0 to5 times.... all are written in correctly in the inventor.xml file... but the Spacemouse will not respond to these changes
Much thanks for the help! I checked and unshared the folders and reinstalled Inventor! Nevertheless it is still laggy, I'm wondering did you ever change the file paths in the application options? If yes which ones (see attachment)? Thanks in advance!
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Im running Inventor 2023 on an M1max with parallels 18. I have tried 4GB of memory for graphics all the way up to 26GB. The graphics are always terrible and it is basically unusable. I would HIGHLY recommend anybody who needs to do actual work get a non-M1 mac or a windows machine. The M1+parallels solution just cannot be made to work.
LudwigH1
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A couple of years ago I had the same problem on a Mac, after reinstalling Inventor Professional 2023 everything started loading very quickly without freezing.
LudwigH1
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In Inventor Professional 2024, these issues have also been resolved.