[Dan Zollman]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

...I may consider switching over. But I'd rather not until I have to... Then I'd have to reset all my Inventor settings.

Inventor has had a lot of problems on Vista for some people. Inventor on Vista doesn't have support from Autodesk yet.

Originally Posted by artdutra04

This post certainly has me thinking: has anyone ever been able to install and run Inventor on an Intel Mac through Darwine? Or how about SolidWorks? Or are these applications too "Windows-based"?

I know some of these have trouble installing into Linux through Wine, so I would probably expect similar results through Darwine on OSX. But I don't think this'll prevent me from at least trying it when I get my new Mac Mini.

I don't know about Darwine, but I've read that people successfully run Inventor using Bootcamp. A quick look at the Wikipedia entry on Darwine makes me think it wouldn't work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwine

Originally Posted by Darwine: Known flaws

* Darwine doesn't have working Direct3D or OpenGL support at the current time. This is blamed on a bug in Apple's X11 implementation preventing GLX from functioning in a way WINE expects.
* Windows XP-only applications don't run correctly.