Autocad on Mac (Lion) running

Leave Me Here · 发表于 2022-7-7 18:27:25

Not sure if I am the only person in the world that has tried this - But I recently installed Autocad (2007) within the Windows XP environment on my MAC (Lion) running through Parallels.

And it sucks. Just waaay too erratic, mouse is all jumping, couldn't even imagine trying to draft a real job.

Why would I even bother doing this when there is Autocad for Mac???
One simple reason - for the life of me, and as far as I understand, there is no simple way in Autocad for MAC to customise keyboard shortcuts the way you can within your CUI in Autocad for PC. Its just insane.
I live on my keyboard shortcuts, and can't efficiently draft without them.
And no, I couldnt load my PC saved CUI on my Mac Autocad either.

I am completely self taught, and maybe I am missing something, but surely there is a way to customize the MAC version the way you can in PC????
Ie - I want: SHIFT+V = MOVE
SHIFT+R = ROTATE
SHIFT+4 = MATCH PROPERTIES
etc

ehh.

Any discussion on this would be much appreciated!!

Leave Me Here · 发表于 2022-7-7 19:26:50

Not really speaking ill of MAC, just the fact is AutoCAD is PC and does not play well with others. I would recommend getting an inexpensive PC and running AutoCAD on that, you can probably get a PC a cheap as a stand alone Windows 7.

I wish AutoCAD would run on Linux system, but we just can't always get what we want.

SLW210 · 发表于 2022-7-7 19:31:14

I have this exact setup and it works flawlessly.  For mouse issues its important to note that the Mac controls the mouse, not Parallels.  In other words, if you have a Logitech you use the Mac Logitech driver to control it's tracking speed / options.  Don't install the SetPoint software in the Windows VM, it won't work.  Parallels basically treats all mice as standard 3-button mice.  You can use the standard mouse control panel in the Windows VM to adjust the most basic mouse options in tandem with the Mac software but any button mapping, scroll wheel speed, etc, is done on the Mac side.

When I first started up AutoCAD in the VM the zoom speed was way too fast, it was totally unusable.  I had to drop the ZOOMFACTOR variable way down to around 15 (i use 60 on my office PC). This could be contributing to the erratic behavior you are experiencing.

As far as your keyboard commands I don't really understand your issue. Why would you want to add the Shift key to your commands?  Seems like a pain to have to stretch your pinky out all the time to initiate a command.  Editing the PGP file with letter-only aliasses is the way to go IMHO.  I have all of my commands mapped to the left side of the keyboard, my fingers basically never leave the ASDF row of keys.  Example, LINE = F and MOVE = D. Those are two of the most used commands so they sit under my index and middle fingers, my strongest fingers.  If i need more commands I just double up the letters.  PLINE = FF and STRETCH = DD.

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