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Archicad on Mac Studio?

genarch
Enthusiast

Has anyone run Archicad on a new Mac Studio? If so how was the performance?

Mac OSX 11.6.8

AC26, Artlantis 2020, TwinMotion

iMac Pro 2017 / 8-core 3.2 GHz / 32GB RAM
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I will have to find something on line to show me how to do that with my IPhone.

 

Thank you for your help. 

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It’s all on the apple web site

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mthd
Mentor

I am impressed at how simple it was to set up the Apple Mac Studio.

 

I used a non Apple usb KB & mouse to get it started. I have also downloaded AC24 for Mac and installed it in demo mode for now along with the license manager.

 

My HP monitor has a HDMI port so all went well. All my Logitech and MS wireless input devices work fine with it.

 

I just have to find out about getting my license to work with Mac now from my provider and all should be good ?

 

Then I will test my project on it to see if the 3D will generate with my fences that I made with CI tools ? They wouldn’t generate after a while on my HP with a comparatively small AMD Radeon HD 6570 with a meager 1024MB graphics card.

 

The proof will be in pudding as the English say.

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Apple Mac Studio M1 Max Chip 10C CPU
24C GPU 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Ventura

Good luck and let us know how you and show the result pls

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@mthd wrote:

I just have to find out about getting my license to work with Mac now from my provider and all should be good ?


There is no difference between a Windows and Mac license (at least not that I am aware of).

The one you have should work just fine.

 

Barry.

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AC24 all good on the Mac Studio with the license manager. I was able to open my files on the Mac from Windows as well. AC24 loads very quickly now in comparison to my old HP. 

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24C GPU 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Ventura
jkershaw
Enthusiast

Longtime Mac and AC user here. Been using a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max chip and 32GB memory for a year now, and I could not be happier, even though I have been primarily using Archicad 25 running through Rosetta 2 emulation. Both Archicad and Twinmotion perform well on that machine. Even better is the native version of Archicad 26 - it is noticeably faster. 

 

I just upgraded my desktop to a Mac Studio M1 Max with 64 GB memory. I don't have much to report yet, except to say that setup and installation was relatively easy, even with Ventura. I had to download and install Codemeter separately as noted in this post

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mthd
Mentor

I have found Archicad 24 build 7006 for Mac to be very stable with Monterey OS.

 

I am stoked with the performance of my Apple Studio Mac M1 Max for my small duplex residential project.

 

Unfortunately I couldn’t program the buttons on my old Logitech MX Revolution mouse with all the support software. I just bought a gaming mouse instead that is programmable with Logitech Ghub software.

 

My Epsom 7720 printer was automatically recognized by my OS no problems.

 

I see some are having problems with the Ventura OS so I will hold off before upgrading it.

 

Thank you for posting your difficulties here, it all helps.

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24C GPU 7.8TF 32GB RAM OS Ventura