I often get the question if we support Mac OS X with Autodesk Inventor. A month or so ago I made the switch to a MacBook Pro as my standard laptop for work. Thats right, an Inventor Product Manager on the Mac. I am always looking for more power and had heard great things about the MacBook Pro (size to power ratio) so I picked one up. Since I still spend a bit of time running Inventor I needed a great way to use Inventor on my Mac and have been playing around a bit with the various solutions. Some of you may recall a blog post I did a few months ago around using Parallels 5.
Depending on what I am doing I either fully boot into Windows 7 or I use Parallels to stay on the Mac side and virtually run Inventor. Since Parallels supports hardware acceleration, I have great performance for virtualization through Parallels and if I need extra power I will just boot up straight to Windows. This has worked great for me and something that we support for Inventor as well as many other Autodesk products.
If you have additional questions, here is an FAQ document that should help.
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GARIN, I POSTED THIS SIMILAR QUESTION A WEEK AGO AND BUT NEVER MADE IT OR WAS DELETED BUT IS THERE ANY CHANCE OF A MAC VERSION OF INVENTOR?
Posted by: Patrick | 05/10/2010 at 11:41 AM
At the moment our plans to support the Mac OS is through Parallels.
Posted by: Garin | 05/11/2010 at 11:23 PM