zoomer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 12 hours ago, line-weight said: I have spent most of this evening trying to work out which combination of adapters, cables and so on I think I had to order 3 times, just cables and adapter, until I had everything I needed. 12 hours ago, line-weight said: I need to get my 3 monitors connected. Oh, that won't be that easy ! (Although not impossible) Officially there is only support for 2 external Monitors on M1 Mini. (1 external Monitor each for MB Air and Pro) This may help : https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/15/displaylink-manager-native-m1-support/ Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, zoomer said: I think I had to order 3 times, just cables and adapter, until I had everything I needed. Oh, that won't be that easy ! (Although not impossible) Officially there is only support for 2 external Monitors on M1 Mini. (1 external Monitor each for MB Air and Pro) This may help : https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/15/displaylink-manager-native-m1-support/ I spent some hours last night trying to understand how displaylink works, and I think I sort of understand it. You basically need either a cable adapter or a docking station that includes a displaylink chip, and this somehow talks to the displaylink software installed in the mac, and allows that monitor to be additional to the two "natively" supported ones. What gets really confusing is what you can connect to what port and which things will get recognised as displaylink or native when they are connected via a dock... and so on. And sometimes it's really unclear whether an adaptor is a displaylink one or not. And then there are all sorts of different types of displaylink things that support different resolutions and so on. So I have ordered some things and there will be a bit of trial and error. For me, I don't currently have any 4k monitors so that makes things a little easier. Thanks for that macrumors link. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 A friend has the same Mini as I have and bought it especially for 2 Displays. A TB Mac display (1920 ?) and a 4k wide screen with HDMI. It was a disaster. But finally he managed it with new better HDMI cable and some settings. I also had flickering problems with HDMI at the beginning. Went to USBC/TB to TB or HDMI cables and finally it works. An unexpected M1, non-real-Apple experience. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Well the mac mini arrived today and things so far have gone unexpectedly smoothly... Connected to a (single for now) HDMI monitor using my existing cable, no problems at all The monitor is actually a pen display, and the drivers for the stylus installed fine 3dConnexion drivers *seem* to have installed fine VW2021 installed fine BUT... my 3dconnexion spacemouse is not behaving so well in VW2021. Need to do some more testing of that - I see there's another thread about that. 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 (edited) Yes, here also, my Pen Display is a Wacom 27" Cintiq. But the original HDMI cable was not available at my current location so I tried to order a Super Duper HDMI cable - which is was NOT. It didn't work from USBC/TB3 with Apples TB3 to TB2 converter either. 3DConnexion ... Which Device(s), just the (older ?) Space Mouse ? Do you use the latest Beta Driver for Big Sur ? My CADMouse wasn't even able to click (!) nevertheless. It needed a firmware update first. (BTW firmware updater Windows only) Have an Space Mouse Enterprise. Beside that most of its Buttons don't work, also no Makros (?), all Modifier Keys (SHIFT; ALT; ....) so far do not work at all with the current Drivers on Big Sur. And, same procedure as every (new VW) year, if you upgraded from a previous VW version, the "VW Commands" setup for 3D Connexion Devices button assignments is not available and would need manual Setting clean up work. (No problem on the Mini as I installed everything from scratch and have installed VW 2021 only) Edited February 18, 2021 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, zoomer said: Yes, here also, my Pen Display is a Wacom 27" Cintiq. But the original HDMI cable was not available at my current location so I tried to order a Super Duper HDMI cable - which is was NOT. It didn't work from USBC/TB3 with Apples TB3 to TB2 converter either. 3DConnexion ... Which Device(s), just the (older ?) Space Mouse ? Do you use the latest Beta Driver for Big Sur ? My CADMouse wasn't even able to click (!) nevertheless. It needed a firmware update first. (BTW firmware updater Windows only) Have an Space Mouse Enterprise. Beside that most of its Buttons don't work, also no Makros (?), all Modifier Keys (SHIFT; ALT; ....) so far do not work at all with the current Drivers on Big Sur. And, same procedure as every (new VW) year, if you upgraded from a previous VW version, the "VW Commands" setup for 3D Connexion Devices button assignments is not available and would need manual Setting clean up work. (No problem on the Mini as I installed everything from scratch and have installed VW 2021 only) I have the SpaceMouse Pro. Yes, I installed the beta driver for Big Sur from the 3dconnexion site (it was the only one it would let me install anyway). It does basically work, but I am seeing some jumpy behaviour in Vectorworks 2021. When I just try and rotate smoothly at a constant speed, there are jerks and jumps in the motion. In fact I suspect that Vectorworks is the culprit, not Big Sur or the M1, because I was already seeing something like this when I tried VW2021 on my old Mac (5,1 Mac Pro on Mojave). In that case, I thought maybe it's just because my computer is getting too ancient to run a 2021 programme - so I was a bit disappointed to see it on the M1 too! This problem is not present using VW2018 on Mojave. But I need to test it a bit more and try an few things before jumping to conclusions. Tomorrow I'll also try VW2020 on the M1 and see how that is. Quote Link to comment
zeno Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Viewport, same situation render time MBP 13 M1 9 min 18 sec (with a 4k monitor and an iPad Pro via sidecar connected), 9 min 0 sec alone iMac 2017 5k quadcore 4,2 Ghz 64 gb ram 11 min 38 sec, alone 3 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, line-weight said: It does basically work, but I am seeing some jumpy behaviour in Vectorworks 2021. Yes, had that also on old Trash Can with Intel. And on M1. But since I uninstalled 3DConnexion Driver > reboot > reboot > reboot > install 3DConnexion Driver > reboot > reboot > reboot > attach original old Space Navigator only. So far no more issues with geometry jumping out of my View. Although I read it did not work for others. Maybe plugging in my CADMouse will bring all issues again ... Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, zoomer said: Yes, had that also on old Trash Can with Intel. And on M1. But since I uninstalled 3DConnexion Driver > reboot > reboot > reboot > install 3DConnexion Driver > reboot > reboot > reboot > attach original old Space Navigator only. So far no more issues with geometry jumping out of my View. Although I read it did not work for others. Maybe plugging in my CADMouse will bring all issues again ... I've posted on the other thread... https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/80462-3dconnexion-spacemouse-makes-big-jumps/ And I've tried the uninstall/reinstall. But maybe I need to try the multiple reboot>reboot>reboot you mention? Let us know what happens when you re-attach the CADmouse! Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 By the way I did some Renderworks tests - the same viewports in the same file, first in vw2018 on my 5,1 mac pro (processor 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon) and then same file imported to vw2021 on the M1. The M1 seems to complete the render almost exactly 2x as fast. So not an order of magnitude difference... but certainly faster. 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Looks like for some people it helped to reboot more than one time before doing the next steps. Especially after installing, so that Apple has enough chances to reliably bring all its security and privacy warnings, you have to allow to make the driver work. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 (edited) Tried de-install 3dx driver, 5 restarts, reinstall 3dx driver, 5 more restarts, still the same problem unfortunately. Edited February 18, 2021 by line-weight Quote Link to comment
zeno Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 By the way.. MBP is connected with usb c cable to a LG 27’ 4k. Absolutely fine. If the MBP is open and it is connected with the 4k monitor, navigation experience throug heavy vw files in Open GL are better on my imac 2017 with 8 gb gpu, but using only the 4k monitor it looks the same, for now. If you switch to M1, absolutely ABSOLUTELY do not trasfer directly data from intel mac or using time machine. It’s a disaster: 8 hour on phone with apple and dropbox support, finally resolved ONLY with a new clean installation. But yes, i think M1 is the way, quicker than we can imagine.. have a cadmouse and spacenavigator, both from 3d connexion, no issue for now Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Are you running VW2020 or 2021, @Zeno? Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Zeno said: If you switch to M1, absolutely ABSOLUTELY do not trasfer directly data from intel mac or using time machine. I did a clean install on my M1 Mini. That is also a disaster. Took me weeks. But how did you migrate exactly ? Have you already had Big Sur on the parent machine ? On the other hand, on Intel Trash Can, I migrated/upgraded directly from Mojave to Big Sur. Without any issues (beside all the 32 bit or KEXT Apps that don't run anymore) I would have expected that migrating Trash Can Big Sur to M1 should not be a problem. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 hours ago, zoomer said: I did a clean install on my M1 Mini. That is also a disaster. Took me weeks. What kind of disaster? Did you do via time machine or similar? (I will also have to migrate from Mojave to Big Sur. Haven't tried starting this yet.) Quote Link to comment
zeno Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 hours ago, line-weight said: Are you running VW2020 or 2021, @Zeno? 2021 1 Quote Link to comment
zeno Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 hours ago, zoomer said: But how did you migrate exactly ? At first I tried Mac to Mac, second Time from time machine backup to Mac, problem with 2 users, no administrator. 3rd time one more time with time machine, problem with dropbox and purple screen. Every time formatting everything last time i switched to be an apple betatester 😄 I have all documents on dropbox. Then set the mails one by one, than installing software one by one, driver one by one Today finally I find a good way Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Zeno said: problem with dropbox and purple screen. I always get purple screen - crash - reboot when try in to change render quality in Twinmotion 🙂 2 hours ago, line-weight said: What kind of disaster? Clean Big Sur as delivered. Installed my Apps and hand picked some of my previous settings. Which, since Big Sur are pretty hidden in Library/Containers/ kind of virtual folders. Some App Settings or Databases I wasn't even able to find or did not work that way. I think it took alone 3 days until I got my playlists over to M1 Apple Music. So first, it wasn't that straight forward to bring Settings over manually as it had been in 2007 or 2015 OS X where a clean installation just meant to sign in into your iCloud account and install and setup your 5 Pro Apps manually. and second, I had no idea about the amount of Settings and Customizations you may have created and got used to during your Apple Life. There are things like Wacom and 3DConnexion Settings for all Apps, most Apps assigned to open in a special Space, App databases, now Privacy and Notification Settings for each App..... I am happy that I have a clean System now, but my next M8x Mac will be setup by Migration Manager from this M1 Setup. 2 Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 I now have 2 monitors working on the M1 mini... one directly connected by HDMI. I bought one of these adapters: https://www.startech.com/en-gb/cards-adapters/dkt30chvcm And I can get a second monitor working through that (plugged into one of the type-C ports) and via the VGA connection. That adapter also has an HDMI socket, but I can't get that to work. Not sure why. My HDMI-connected monitor (it's a Huion pen display) can be a little erratic. For example, it doesn't always wake up when I wake up the M1, and I have to do it manually. Still waiting for a DisplayLink enabled adaptor to arrive and then the question will be whether I can get monitor no. 3 working. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 47 minutes ago, line-weight said: For example, it doesn't always wake up when I wake up the M1, and I have to do it manually. Happens here too, with my Wacom cintiq, but not too often. Although I currently use USBC to DP. (Should try USBC to HDMI again, which also provided full resolution at 60 Hz) Not only this, also when M1 sleeping, Monitor and external SSD will awake as soon as I open an iPhone or iPad. Wacom Display will not really get on, but you see that the backlight is bleeding through and the "Will go to sleep" message will come. So I usually switch M1 Mini off over night. Even when I switch off M1 Mini, Wacom Display will start to sleep as usual, but goes on again directly after, with "Displayport disconnected, will go to sleep in 5 minutes" message - for 5 minutes .... Quote Link to comment
zeno Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 2/19/2021 at 5:16 PM, zoomer said: I always get purple screen - crash - reboot when try in to change render quality in Twinmotion The purple windows problem can be fixed by disable this option on general panel on system settings https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/kgj0n1/purple_backdrop_issues_on_macbook_pro_m1/ Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 No, I had this Setting off already. Changing Twinmotion Quality crashes my whole computer. In that case the whole screen gets pink for a moment, before it gets black and M1 Mini reboots 🙂 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) On 2/18/2021 at 8:14 PM, zoomer said: So far no more issues with geometry jumping out of my View. Although I read it did not work for others. OK, Geometry jumping out of View came back. On 2/18/2021 at 6:14 PM, zoomer said: Beside that most of its Buttons don't work, also no Makros (?), all Modifier Keys (SHIFT; ALT; ....) so far do not work at all with the current Drivers on Big Sur. HMMh, I replaced original Space Navigator with Enterprise on M1 now. Seems like the Modifier Keys on the left side (SHIFT, CTRL, ...) do work now with latest beta driver. Indeed, looks like Enterprise works like it did before Big Sur (?) As there were some other button assignments, like Keystrokes, Makros or Application Commands that die not work. At least it seems to work in VW now (?) But with Enterprise, M1 Mini will re-awake immediately again after I try to put it to sleep .... Edited February 21, 2021 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 My current mac pro has a habit of re-awaking soon after I put it to sleep... and I have suspected my spacemouse as a possible culprit. Sorry to hear your geometry-jumping problem has returned, but from my selfish point of view, it's always good to know other people are experiencing the same problem as it makes it more likely it'll get fixed. Does it happen in VW2020 and VW2021 or just VW2021? Quote Link to comment
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