Carbide Create on Apple Silicon?

Software Carbide Create
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I just bought a new Mac and it has an M4. I installed Carbide Create and it won’t run without installing the emulator (Rosetta). I would hate to think I need to run that just for one application. What are the plans for creating a native application or univeral application?

There has not been an Intel Mac released since 2019 and it is expected that the next OS release likely won’t support the Intel Macs. Maybe it is time to build for the only processor available?

I held out as long as I could but my old mac was the last Intel Mini and it is 7 years old.

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Interesting, I just upgraded to a Mac Studio M4 (for inside the house) and CC loaded via the normal process? I downloaded V7 and V8 (registered Pro) version and it runs as it does on the Mac mini did in the garage?

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Carbide Create requires Rosetta. I’m not sure when we’ll say goodbye to the Intel builds and shift to ARM-only, but my guess is we’ll wait until the last Intel Macs are 4-5 years old, or when one of our software dependencies requires it. (That’s a guess, not official policy) I think the last Intel Mac Pro was announced in 2019, but it sold until 2023. The last Intel MacBook was discontinued around 2022.

M-series Mac using Rosetta is our primary development platform, so it’s well-tested.

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@robgrz Will an ARM build work on an Intel MAC?

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Nope. The Intel-on-ARM was to help them transition people to the new platform. They don’t care a lot about older hardware at this point.

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Thanks @robgrz. I’ve been on the fence about a new MacBook, this gives me a little time to decide.

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The M4 is awesome, and Rosetta makes the whole thing really seamless. Go for it.

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It seems there have been significant changes since my first Mac with a processor change. On a PowerPC Mac with 680x0 executables the performance was not great. I did some research and it seems that M4 emulation of Intel is very good. For some operations (CPU intensive tasks) the emulation is actually faster than the native Intel.

It seems there are some edge cases where emulation is slower but not many. I guess I will just enable Rosetta 2 and hope for the best. As I download other App Store purchases I am seeing other Intel-only distributions. I just assumed it would be best to run native code.

I use OpenSCAD for creating 3D print files and the performance in native Apple Silicon mode is great. I assumed rendering in CC would benifit from the “upgrade”. I do, however realize the issues of the need to support a wide range of MacOS releases and how that can cause one to keep “one foot in the grave” when developing code (I was a developer in a former life). I am just happy that Rosetta works so well.

I guess I can wait. Let me know if you need a beta tester when you are ready to go native.

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A post was split to a new topic: Any other OpenSCAD users here?

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