AutoCAD on Parallels
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Jun 20, 2006, 12:59 PM
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kaidomac Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 48 |
I'm not an AutoCAD user, but I've tried Rhino3D, an industrial design program (think lightweight CAD). It runs pretty well. The interface is a bit laggy (due to the emulated graphics card, I'd imagine), but it is definately both functional and useable. |
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Jun 21, 2006, 12:11 AM
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jwins Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 |
I currently have AutoCAD 2007 installed and running under Parallels. The performance is acceptable but effects that depend on 3D hardware acceleration are emulated in software or absent. If your work is primarily 2D, you should not experience any degredation in performance as long as you have adequate RAM assigned to the VM. I also have Autodesk Revit Building installed and performance is acceptable on the models I have tested. |
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Jun 21, 2006, 02:42 PM
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rangr Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 27 |
I've been running Autocad 2002 since the first beta. There was a problem with certain commands (Scale, for example) but it was taken care of in beta 6 (THANK YOU PARALLELS FOR LISTENING AND SOLVING!). I'm using it everyday, with no problems at all. The one and only difference is that things like zooming in and out are not as smooth as with boot camp or on a PC with a good graphics card. It's purely a visual difference, the speed of use is not affected... am hoping that Parallels is able to drive the Video card natively with future version to take care of this (and allow OpenGL reliant apps to run at full speed) but that's a different topic. |
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Jul 18, 2007, 07:37 PM
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phlip Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 1 |
I'm using AGi32, a lighting design program that was running fine until I upgraded(??) to v3.0 and now i find it won't render. Had great 3D graphics with old version, now nothing. Just downloaded latest build..seems to have sort of fixed video issue... I also am trying to connect an HP Designjet 500 plotter with Jetdirect 2400. I currently have two other printers working fine using Bonjour. Does anyone know of a driver to plug in that will allow me to use proper page setup? Printer not responding at all. |
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Jul 24, 2007, 05:20 AM
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Piet Junior Member Join: Jul 2007 Posts: 1 |
Irratic mouse in AutoCad 2007 I also have the problem of the irratic mouse in Autocad. I'm using a macbook pro, parallels 4560 and autocad 2007. I have tried the following advice from this forum: reducing the hardware acceleration to one setting short of max - this made the problem worse. I have also tried disabling the mouse sync in parallels tools - this also made the problem worse. I downloaded steermouse3.6 - didn't help. Please help. |
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Jun 21, 2006, 06:28 PM
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Sheppy Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 145 |
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Long answer: Heck yes. Explanative answer: Macs tend to come with only enough memory for very basic use. I generally recommend to everyone that they get as much memory as they can. These days, I pretty much won't touch a machine with less than 768 MB in it, and I prefer 1 GB. Both my iMac and my MacBook Pro are fully loaded with 2 GB. __________________ Eric Shepherd |
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Dec 23, 2006, 08:05 PM
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psyfil Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 20 |
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Aug 24, 2006, 12:49 AM
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andreibosco Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 1 |
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Aug 24, 2006, 01:23 AM
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amcintyre Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 8 |
acad I have run autocad 2006 and sketchup pro though parallels desktop, and while 3d processing is a little slow for both, 2d work and file handling are great (better than running them natively on my Dell at work, which is not a bad system) FYI, I have a 2.16 ghz MBP with 1gb of ram and a 100 gb hard drive, which seems to be enough for the medium sized files i work with. If you are working with really, really, huge files (greater than about 10 megs), or with extensive 3d rendering, I would upgrade to 2 gb and / or use boot camp instead. At any rate, i would recommend buying memory in a single so dimm so you can upgrade easily if you wish. |
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Sep 24, 2006, 09:06 PM
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magrite Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 13 |
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Sep 6, 2006, 12:31 PM
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knath Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 1 |
Another question... One of my coworkers just recently installed Parallels and XP on a Macbook Pro in order to use Autocad 2006, but there are always two cursors on the Autocad screen (both the Autocad crosshairs and the Windows pointer)--anyone have any idea why this is happening or how to fix it? Maybe because of the Mac wireless mouse? |
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Sep 9, 2006, 10:02 AM
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dblanch369 Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 5 |
Autocad mouse pointer issue Quote:
The downside, of course, is that you have to use the ctrl-alt key combo to leave the guest OS and use the mouse in OSX |
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Sep 23, 2006, 10:53 PM
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billearl Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 32 |
AutoCAD on High acceleration setting With the latest Parallels build 1910, all of my Windows apps (AutoCAD, MS Office, Google Earth, etc.) run fine with acceleration set to Normal. With acceleration set to High, all still run fine (and faster) except for AutoCAD 2004, which always immediately results in a crash requiring rebooting of Windows. The dialog that appears suggests changing acceleration back to Normal if the problem persists. Will this problem be addressed by Parallels, or is it something I can fix? Thanks. (Mac Pro, 3GB, Windows XP Pro) |
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Dec 23, 2006, 01:16 AM
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Anarchytec Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 5 |
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One ongoing annoyance: the temporary dimension are **very tiny**. A new user probably wouldn't even see them. An experienced user would find having to carefully select them annoying. But maybe less annoying than having to reboot into Boot Camp. I only reboot for large/demanding datasets. So reboot for >100mb files (WTC). I'd suggest you set up a Boot Camp partition and then access it from Parallels. This will allow you the option of Booting into XP alone if you need a dedicated OS. Something very interesting (and appreciated): rendering in Revit (via Parallels) means that you don't lock up your OS when you push the render button. You can actually drag/hide/minimize the Revit window in real-time while rendering. So once I start a render - I hide the view and work in OS X as if nothing is happening. OS X continues to work. I don't run full screen - so hiding Revit during rendering is trivial. Also - running latest beta build with no issues. Coherence is nice feature. Revit icon sits in OS X dock now. :) So overall - not as fast as XP alone. But quite sufficent. If the temp dimensions were resolved I could do training via Parallels. Actually submitted this issue to Parallels but have not heard back (yet). Attached image is of 80mb project. Trying to rotate the whole project with everything open is pokey but still acceptable. Expect to Open/Close worksets selectively and create shortcuts for Hide/Isolate/Reset helps. Basically the stuff you do to work smart anyway. Otherwise - opening/creating new views is fine. Rendering 1800x2000 image took <3 minutes. Maybe a thread in the AUGI forum for Revit<>OSX/MacIntel Hardware would be helpful as well. And looking forward to MBP's with 4gb ram...so I can allocate more memory to Revit. All the best - Phil |
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Oct 17, 2006, 06:56 PM
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irelandshope Junior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 14 |
3D Autocad working great I wrote a thread about my experience with 3D Autocad in Parallels and its working great. See the thread its called "3D AutoCad & Architectural Desktop 2006 Works Perfectly" Check it out. |
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