Will iMac with M1/M2 chip support parallels desktop & Autocad Architecture 2018?

even if it could then virtual machines have no access to the 3d features of video cards

and also if one came across win11 for arm to run in the virtual machine then if Autocad is intel x86 based rather than arm then it will be "emulated" in the same manner that apple have rosetta stone 2

Rudegar wrote:

and also if one came across win11 for arm to run in the virtual machine then if Autocad is intel x86 based rather than arm then it will be "emulated" in the same manner that apple have rosetta stone 2

Not exactly. AutoCad Architecture 2018 is Windows only and Rosetta 2 doesn't run in Windows.

you misunderstand me, reviews of some of the surface devices from Microsoft featuring arm cpus could run x86 apps but poorly

this would mean microsoft have an wrapper layer somewhat like Rosetta 2 How x86 and ARM32 emulation work on ARM - UWP applications | Microsoft Docs

No. The only version of Windows that can run in Parallels Desktop on an M1/M2 Mac is the ARM64 insider preview of Windows 11.

It seems I did misunderstand. However, according to the link you posted, emulation is limited to 32bit Windows apps. AutoCad Architecture 2018 is 64bit.