I would be extremely grateful to anyone who could try this for me.
I’m considering making our next office machine an M1 Mac Mini - but would like to confirm if this is a quirk with my macbook pro or a general issue with parallels.
Thanks in advance! If you manage to catch this in the next 5 days I’ve added wetransfer link too:
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Yes, I can confirm SketchUp 2022 works fine under Parallels 17-Windows 11 arm, on MacMini M1.
Not a Mac user but just out of curiosity, why would anyone use parallels to run a SketchUp Windows version on Mac instead of the Mac version?
Only reason I can think of is to be able to use Windows only extensions.
To check extensions developpement on different platform, for one thing. And teaching.
Another reason is to verify that the extensions I write work correctly on both platforms. Sometimes there are minor differences required.
A note for using SketchUp in Parallels 17, Windows 11 with M1 Mac: be very careful about where you’re opening the .skp file from.
If a .skp file that you’re opening is actually saved on the mac side, you need to be 100% sure you’re opening it through the mapped Z:/ drive.
In your parallels Configuration for the VM, under Options>Sharing>Share Mac, have the following settings:
Share folders: Home folder only
Uncheck “Share Mac user folders with Windows”
Check “Map Mac volumes to windows”
(Not sure is checking “share cloud folders to windows” matters, I don’t use my cloud folders on windows so I wouldn’t know)
This will map your mac home folders to the Z drive in your windows machine, and you must open files through the Z drive link.
I had a lingering saved network link to //home…etc. and that bugsplatted every time. Opening the same file through Z/ works fine.
So far on M1 I have been dragging test files to the Windows 11 desktop, so hadn’t seen any problems. With Intel Mac I do directly access the Mac Downloads folder, and that’s working ok.