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Albatrossflyer  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:53:11 PM(UTC)
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Has there been any word if ViaCAD / Shark will be ported to the new ARM based Macs when they come out?
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murray  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, October 6, 2020 7:41:15 PM(UTC)
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No, but I've been looking at one of the ARM Windows PCs and so far, they're all 32-bit. Maybe they do something RISC-style parallel processing, or local distributed, but I haven't seen any mention of that, just 'Ooh Aaahing' about battery durability.
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lightbulbjim  
#3 Posted : Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:19:00 PM(UTC)
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Hope so, or else the Mac version will be dead in about two years time!
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nicola  
#4 Posted : Saturday, November 21, 2020 4:44:10 PM(UTC)
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Hi All,
Any news about Apple M1 native support or Rosetta2 compatibility?
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nicola  
#5 Posted : Sunday, November 22, 2020 9:03:27 AM(UTC)
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Hi,
In detail Rosetta2 seems not able to translate AVX, AVX2 e AVX512 instruction for vector operations.
Can SharkCAD Pro v12 be translated by Rosetta2 w/o problems over new Apple silicon ARM MacBook?
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Nicola
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texasdavew  
#6 Posted : Friday, January 8, 2021 4:05:27 PM(UTC)
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Hi all, long time Viacad 2D3D user. New MacBook Air M1 user. I just upgraded to VCPro at the suggestion of Encore tech support. VCPro retains all the features I wanted from t he old 2D3D version. I installed on my MacBook Air M1 and everything seems to be working well. I assume Rosetta 2 did or is-doing all the conversions necessary but so far I'm happy that things are working. I'll report back if I run into any issues but after 2 weeks - so far so good.
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