Trying to get the team on CAD

[gracie.]

When I was first looking to install Inventor on my Mac, I was advised by basically all our mentors to dual boot rather than using a virtual machine for CAD. A few of them had done it, and they said the program would run faster if just made a partition.

What I ended up doing was running Boot Camp and making a partition with windows xp on it. I know that's what you said you'd rather not do, but it really is quite simple, and I've been using CAD this way all year. I only made a 40 gb partition, so it hardly effected my computer (though I might make a bigger partition depending on how much you CAD), and if I ever want to delete the partition it's very easy to do.

[josh.pruim]

Sorry if I was being unclear, but the drive I have is a bootable USB that runs Windows. My thoughts were if we needed to, it could also be booted by connecting it as a disk inside VMWare. The idea is to have 4 or 5 USB drives like this, so that we aren't requiring anyone to obtain, install, and troubleshoot their own installation. The drives are not a requirement to be used, but if someone wants to use Inventor, but doesn't have any Windows-boot machines, this would be where it is used.