Doug Gower Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 10 minutes ago, dleczynski said: today i install ironcad on macbook keep fingers crossed! Hi Dariusz, Are you using M1 Macbook? Good luck! Let us know how that works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dleczynski Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 bootcamp wants over 70GB of disk space and I have 128GB so I have no resources. It is not easy to do a bootcamp. IRONCAD from woodlab wants 15GB of resources and has no place to work. not today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernd Meißner Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Well, installing IronCAD on a Mac using Bootcamp is - from a technical point of view - running it on Mac/Intel hardware, but not running it on a Mac (OS). I've been using IronCAD (Inovate) on an old Mac Pro for several years , running in Bootcamp/Windows 7-64 Pro. It worked fine until version 2016 or 2017 or so, but then it became increasingly unstable with the last couple of versions, I guess mostly due to graphics card issues with the old Mac hardware. And then there's the old Windows version, too, which is highly reliable and stable on its own, but only with older software written for this version… With an 128GB drive I wouldn't even think about installing Bootcamp and IronCAD. No way this would work, hosting two operating systems including applications. A 500GB drive is minimum for that (also think of the large swap files created when using some applications). I have migrated my main IronCAD installation to a "real" PC now, where it works fine with current versions. I also have a later (2015) MacBook Pro running Windows 10 in Bootcamp, on which I could test IronCAD, but haven't done yet. Bernd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernd Meißner Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Update: I've installed IronCAD 2021 on my MacBook Pro (2015). It works, but the graphics performance is extremely poor, no matter which graphics mode is selected. When trying to pan or orbit the screen content, it takes about 10 seconds before the screen even starts moving. I'm not sure why it's so bad, and I'm not sure if there's anything that can be set to improve it. These are the the hardware + Windows specs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernd Meißner Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Update #2: Doh! Installing a correct and current Bootcamp driver for the Radeon graphics card does wonders! Performance is now fine, screen content can be moved and rotated quickly, even with large assemblies. That's good news :-) Bernd 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 Hello! Just installed on an Apple silicon M3 Macbook with Parallels + Windows 11 and... it works! Had to change graphics driver to OpenGL2 instead of DirectX, but nothing else was needed. (Menu>Options>Rendering>Driver Type) Note: I only just tested this, threw in a few parts to see if it could handle them and all worked fine. But I haven't done sustained work where I assume there might be problems floating around different areas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Helinsky Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 12/30/2023 at 7:31 AM, Josh said: Hello! Just installed on an Apple silicon M3 Macbook with Parallels + Windows 11 and... it works! Had to change graphics driver to OpenGL2 instead of DirectX, but nothing else was needed. (Menu>Options>Rendering>Driver Type) Note: I only just tested this, threw in a few parts to see if it could handle them and all worked fine. But I haven't done sustained work where I assume there might be problems floating around different areas. Hi, Thanks for the update. Do you have any new findings to report on ? I assume you are running this on Windows 11 ARM version ? Thanks Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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