![]() Their response was to stay away from it for the foreseeable future. So I wrote to Tech to ask them what they thought of the new M1 chip and if that would be sufficient for my needs. I was in the market for a new laptop to run FMZ. right now, i cannot work anymore in FZ when not on my macpros at the studio, as i already sold my old intel macbooks. ![]() the older rhino 7 is behaving like FZ version 9.2 and currently is unusable for larger projects on M1 and monterey because to slow. hopefully autodessys in the same way is trying to improve the handling speed for FZ. rhino is also using the ACIS kernel, so i wonder if they are already using a beta of this kernel for silicon or if mcneel are just implementing some clever tricks to improve speed for screen handling. the screen handling speed in metal mode (which has to be switched on by a manual commandline) is really impressive inside my macbook pro with M1 max. any hints from the developers?ītw i'm currently evaluating a beta version 8 of rhino, which is already optimized to run under M1 and latest macOS. not sure how well FZ is already optimized for metal. this process is going on for a much longer time and was announced 2018 by apple. btw i believe the problem is not so much the M1 - ARM chip architecture, but the transition of apple's graphics and computing API from opengl and opencl to metal. 2020 correct?Ĭorrect, end of 2020 was first appearance. ![]() Maybe it's time ADS ditches the ACIS kernel and moves to Parasolid? Autodesk supports iOS as well, which means their geometry engines working on those iOS apps are already partially compatible with the M1." Moving to M1 support was relatively quick for them. Parasolid had moved to ARM chip support for iOS apps on iPad and iPhones years ago. Vectorworks, the world’s most popular CAD/BIM platform on the Mac, is already fully native as it uses the Parasolid kernel. This leaves an opening for the competition. So, for now, I guess the conclusion for me would be that until the compatibility between ACIS and Apple M1/X is resolved, is to expect that formZ continues to be updated regularly to run as well as possible with the latest MacOS versions under Rosetta 2. Unfortunately M1 dependency loading is an all-or-nothing thing, an executable cannot mix M1 and Intel built binaries." It was planned for January, but Spatial delayed it to November 2022. Acis, the 3d modeler by Spatial that BricsCAD relies on, has no M1 native version. " Unfortunately we cannot create a native M1 BricsCAD in short term. Still, from our view, quite a few do, including IMSI-Design’s Mac products ViaCAD Pro, PunchCAD, and many others."įrom the Bricsys forum, developers of BricsCAD, the following is the response from one of their employees on a post about BricsCAD V22 compatibility with Apple M1: We had heard a rumor that M1 support was lagging for ACIS because few Mac developers in the engineering world rely on ACIS. " There are many Mac CAD and 3D software systems that rely on ACIS, including legendary formZ. To speed things up, it would be essential that they release a universal version of their ACIS modeling kernel.įrom an article about AutoCAD on M1: It is a good question, although I think that after more than a year of transition, it should be asked more to Spatial Corp / Dassault Systèmes.
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