Support for AutoCAD 3D?

[aarden]

Has anybody heard if there are plans to offer 3D acceleration support for AutoCAD (2009)? I'm using a new unibody MacBook Pro, and at present hardware acceleration is disabled in AutoCAD. The performance tuner log can't read any settings off the Nvidia card:

3D Device

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Name :

Manufacturer :

Chip set :

Memory : MB

Driver :

Thanks for any information!

[admin]

The performance tuner log can't read any settings off the Nvidia card:

That's expected - the guest does not see the actual hardware. Have you installed Tools and enabled 3D acceleration?

[aarden]

Yes, I installed VMware Tools, and 3D acceleration was already turned on in the virtual machine settings. I changed the MBP's Energy Saver Graphics to "Higher performance" to turn on the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, and rebooted the laptop. I turned off the virtual machine and rebooted it. When I restarted AutoCAD 2009 it still wouldn't let me turn the hardware acceleration on.

If AutoCAD can't see the hardware, I wonder if it will ever be possible to get it to use hardware acceleration...

[NeilBlanchard]

Hi,

How is the image quality in 2D -- do entities in the drawing area look as good as the menus?

Sincerely, Neil

[admin · Accepted solution]

AutoCAD specifically turns off 3D support for our video device. We're looking at this internally.

[aarden]

2D display looks fine.

I upgraded my copy of Parallels to the latest version, and AutoCAD recognizes the (virtual) graphics card and turns on 3D acceleration, so it must be possible.

Good luck!

[casolorz]

Any updates on this problem?

Autodesk design review works better in 3D for me if I tell it to use Software (opengl) than if I select directx.

[DarkAngelPT]

This issue is marked as resolved, yet the problem still happens in 2.0.2 and we have no news about he situation and if it will be resolved.

[casolorz]

I switched my design review (not full autocad) to using opengl software and its a bit slow but at least it shows me things with the right textures.