Errors when trying to run on a Mac

I'm trying to run FEATool on a Macbook Pro with an M4 Pro processor. I installed FEATool as an App and tried to run it. It opens fine and the first few screens are fine (Splash screen, license screen, and problem definition screen). When I go to add geometry I get the popup window error:

Geometry engine error: Could not create featool geometry object.

And at the MATLAB command window I get the error:

Warning: Geomtool system call returned error, IER = 126

zsh:1: permission denied:

I using MATLAB 2024b and FEATool 1.17.4

Thanks

Not quite sure why there is a permission error. Did it use to work at some point?

You can possibly try to manually give access to the geomtool_mac binary (for example using chmod +x) (it should be located in the "App Data"/bin/ folder indicated in "System Info..." of the "Help" menu), something like:

 chmod +x ~/Documents/MATLAB/Add-Ons/Apps/FEAToolMultiphysics/bin/geomtool_mac

Possibly also try to add a security exception to the binary as described here:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from-an-unidentified-developer-mh40616/mac
https://featool.com/doc/quickstart#install_standalone_mac

For reference, the user reported the issue due to not having Rosetta installed on the ARM Mac system. After installing Rosetta it seemed to work.