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Good day,
Does anyone have any experience of the latest Parallels or VMWare Fusion virtual machine with DataCad 20 on a 2017 imac running High Sierra. Very interested to hear good or bad stories.
Thanks in advance.

What version of Windows will you be running, in the virtual environment? As far as I know, if DataCAD 20 is compatible with the version of Windows, then you should be good.

The only other issue is that you need a mouse that makes a Middle Button available in the Mac OS, so that it is available in Windows.

I run DataCAD 20 on a Mac using Fusion 10.

As Neil said you just need a 3 button mouse for the middle button feature & minor mouse setting under the preference panel.

Have been happy w/ Fusion for the last 7 years

Thank you Neil and Jerry!
I'll be running on Windows 10. Do you notice any slow response using Fusion, Jerry? DCad is very, very quick on straight windows and I'm hoping for no (or very little) slow down with Fusion or Parallels. I use a 3 button mouse anyway, so no issues there.
Thanks again, guys.

I do not notice any slow response time.

Glenn,

How much RAM is in your Mac? You need enough to split between OSX and Windows - I think 16GB would be a safe minimum, so you can use 8GB for each. 32GB would be awesome, with 16GB for each operating system.

Hi Neil,

Thanks for your advice (as always). The imac has 16GB RAM. I'll only be using Windows for DCAD - nothing else. All other stuff will be on the imac. So perhaps I can devote less than 8GB to Windows?

Glenn.

PS Jerry - thanks for your last post - I'm pleased that speed seems to be fine.

My iMac has 32 gig of ram but I configure Fusion 10 for 8 gig.

I would see how it goes with an 8GB/8GB split. If you are doing things on the Mac side (while running DataCAD) that are slowing down, you can drop Windows to 6GB.