The AutoCAD for Mac system requirements refer to a model identifier when describing the minimum or recommended Mac models to use with AutoCAD for Mac. Sign up to our FREE NEWSLETTER to get exclusive discounts on our CAD collections and 3d max vray models. (AutoCAD 2004.dwg format) Our CAD drawings are purged to keep the files clean of any unwanted layers. This 2d dwg cad model can be used in your office design CAD drawings. Download this FREE 2D CAD Block of an APPLE IMAC. Rather, Autodesk has programmed this version for the Mac from the ground up with a conscious effort to take advantage of the Mac OS X interface.

You should worry more about the price gouging Autodesk has been doing with their forced upgrades every four years with the ending of support for 'old' products.A Proven Replacement for AutoCAD 2D/3D DWG Software …with all the Familiar Icons and MenusĪutoCAD 2011 for the Mac is not a port from Windows. So you see, moving to a Mac is the least of your worries. It would have been wiser for Autodesk to use C++ instead of C#. Microsoft also offers C++ as a primary language, C++ is cross platform and you can mix C++, Objective-C, and C on a Mac. Microsoft's is C# which is another variation on the C language. Apple's preferred language is Objective-C which is just the C language with extensions. C is a 'portable' language, able to be used on any computer and any OS. A wholly bad and wasteful move on there part as each version I have used since that switch has just gotten worse and worse. From there AutoCAD was developed primarily in C until the last few years they have jumped on the Micrsoft. Later when Autodesk purchased the application he came with it and ported it over to C. The core of AutoCAD was written by Mike Riddle in the late 70's in his own programming language, SBL. Is this really a market which is worth slowing down the future development of AutoCAD?įYI AutoCAD did come for the Mac, the quit making it in 1992. Maybe it is different in the US but in Europe, there are only about 1% of Mac users (the log data of major web portals) and only a small portion of them would eventually use AutoCAD. I cannot see any CAD designer using Mac OS in my neighbourhood. This means that all efforts of porting AutoCAD to Mac (or Linux, or whatever) will eat resources which would be otherwise dedicated to adding new functions to AutoCAD, fixing its bugs, making it faster, nicer, better.

And I think that Autodesk resources are not unlimited. Why unfortunately? Well, I am sure that Mac users will be happy about some AutoCAD 2011 for Mac but what about the 99% percent of the rest of us? With any software development, the pace of the development depends on the resources dedicated to it. Unfortunately it seems to be meant seriously. I have somehow hoped that this an April Fool's joke only - Shaan Hurley has published a AutoCAD & Mac OSX Survey on April 1st.

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