Apple M1 chip

[Joe_Neill]

Will Rhino work with the new M1 chip for Macs?

[ME_Mark]

Not natively on ARM, only emulated on Rosetta 2.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Joe - Rhino currently doesn’t work on Macs with a M1 chip.
-wim

[Joe_Neill]

Thanks

[Joe_Neill]

OK, thanks

[AlW]

@ME_Mark

Not natively on ARM, only emulated on Rosetta 2.

Theoretically according to Apple.

@wim

Hi Joe - Rhino currently doesn’t work on Macs with a M1 chip

This seems to contradict Apple’s position. Has it been tried and demonstrated to fail?

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

@AlW

This seems to contradict Apple’s position.

I’m not aware of Apple having tried to run Rhino.
It really depends on how you define “works”, Al. If you just want to sit and look at a wireframe of a box all day, then, yes, it works. Trying to actually work will crash.
-wim

[furtonb]

@AlW

Has it been tried and demonstrated to fail?

another thread about this, others already tried running Rhino:

Apple Silicon/M1 - No for BigSur 11.2, yes for BigSur 11.3

I can confirm that 7 and M1 Mac are not currently compatible. I’m just using the evaluation version but there is a conflict with “materials” such that the software crashes if you try even to select material properties and it will not open any Rhino 6 files which use materials other than default. I guess my 3 months will be up before it’s fixed.

[stevebaer]

@AlW

This seems to contradict Apple’s position. Has it been tried and demonstrated to fail?

On our internal tests we can crash Rhino in Shaded, Arctic, Rendered, and Raytraced display modes. We aren’t sure yet if this will require changes on our part or if a patch for Big Sur will fix these issues.