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AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac

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Re: AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac

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Post by pingswept »

krschultz wrote: post #18
weaksauce wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use autocad for? Electrical drawings or something else? I am very happy about this coming to the Mac as it might make the other engineering packages come to the Mac as well if it is a success. At my work we use solidworks for models and autocad for electrical drawings.

I'm a mechanical engineer, my personal preference for 2D drawings is AutoCAD but 3D CAE is Solidworks. I'm not sure I could personally make the switch until Solidworks was availble because I spend about 90% of my time in Solidworks but only 10% in AutoCAD, but if Inventor went to Mac that's pretty close to Solidworks. (Is Pro/E on Mac? I know it is available on Linux) My brother is an architect and his primary tool i…

I've been waiting for Solidworks on anything but Windows since approximately 1997. I've been considering switching to Autodesk Inventor recently, and this might push me over the edge. The last piece of software holding me to Windows then would be PCB layout software.

Also, I believe that Pro/E doesn't support Linux anymore. I believe the most recent release, Wildfire 5, only runs on Windows and, strangely, 64-bit Solaris.

Re: AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac

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Post by glhaynes »

stuntmouse wrote: post #23

Steam, AutoCAD, possibly Rhino. Why are all these companies doing their ports now , when Apple is so focused on mobile computing? Are they just slow to react? Making a bet on the halo effect from iPhone/iPad?

Mac sales are on a big upswing regardless of Apple's mobile devices (which are on an even bigger upswing).

Re: AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac

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Post by wwortiz »

krschultz wrote: post #18
weaksauce wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use autocad for? Electrical drawings or something else? I am very happy about this coming to the Mac as it might make the other engineering packages come to the Mac as well if it is a success. At my work we use solidworks for models and autocad for electrical drawings.

I'm a mechanical engineer, my personal preference for 2D drawings is AutoCAD but 3D CAE is Solidworks. I'm not sure I could personally make the switch until Solidworks was availble because I spend about 90% of my time in Solidworks but only 10% in AutoCAD, but if Inventor went to Mac that's pretty close to Solidworks. (Is Pro/E on Mac? I know it is available on Linux) My brother is an architect and his primary tool i…

I think Pro/E stopped supporting linux (or maybe solaris) recently (like wildfire 3 or something like that) if so I doubt it is available on the mac

Re: AutoCAD appears headed back to the Mac

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Post by xilun666 »

seshagiric wrote: post #10
motters wrote: post #5

I remember probably a decade ago being told by CAD people how much companies pay to run AutoCAD, and being completely shocked. I never realised there was any software so expensive. Based upon my observations in several engineering companies I'd say that Autodesk is one of the worst organisations when it comes to selling of software, very aggressively locking users in using strong-arm tactics.

CATIA (from Dassault Systems) sells for more than $50K per seat. How about that?

Given the price of the engineer sitting on that seat, that remains reasonable.
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