I was checking out my Google Alerts the other day, and came across this great blog post about running AutoCAD on the Mac with VMware Fusion.
I’ve seen posts like this before, of course, but what really made me happy this time around was that it was an official Autodesk blog talking about it! How’s that for validation?
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In the post, Shaan Hurley talks about the niceties of running AutoCAD on a Mac, and the various way to do it, including both Boot Camp and virtualization, fairly mentioning both us and our primary competition in the field.
What you need to know about running Autodesk products on a Mac Submitted by Donnie Gladfelter on August 16, 2013 - 8:12am The popularity of Apple's Mac computers has undoubtably increased in recent years, and that increase in popularity has brought with it several questions about running Autodesk's Windows-based applications on a Mac. Revit For Mac Student Autodesk provides many native Mac products for 3D modeling, CAD, rendering, animation, VFX, and digital imagery. In addition, we provide full support for a number of products when used on the Mac in virtualized environments including Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion. Mac os for toshiba computers.
Feb 25, 2020 I've been using parallels for Autodesk inventor, and it is close to native speed. But on VMWare is it too slow to use. And the vmware-vmx process sucks 44% with inventor open and no activity (windows task manager shows 2%) I've got plenty of RAM, CPU allocated. 3D acceleration is on. How to use Revit on a Macintosh OS X system. While Revit does not currently have a native Macintosh version, there are still a few options that will allow you to use Revit when working with a Macintosh system: Bootcamp: This allows you to boot your system into a Windows operating system, and take full advantage of the hardware. Virtual Machine: Using virtualization software (Parallels / VMWare.
But what really made me smile was this part:
We showed AutoCAD 2009 running on a Mac using VMware Fusion last week at Autodesk University 2008 in the General Design booth.
Yup, that’s right. When the rubber really hits the road, at a tradeshow, where you want to put your best foot forward, and make sure everything “just works,” the AutoCAD team selected VMware Fusion 2. Check out the great picture of them at the booth.
We on the Fusion team haven’t done any specific demo videos showing off AutoCAD, but I did some quick YouTube research, and lo and behold, there are handful of helpful videos out there showing off VMware Fusion 2 (you know, the one with the enhanced 3D acceleration features? Yeah, that one. ) running AutoCAD.
Here are the videos I found (with Spanish captions, no less!):
The first one shows off how to disable the “Optimize Mouse for Gaming” feature to get the best performance.
And this one shows off Unity, Single Windows, and Full Screen views:
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And here’s everyone’s favorite “OMG! 3D acceleration is in Fusion 2” demo (in which I got to play Gears of War at work…nice eh?)