AutoCAD on Mac?

[kwong]

A colleague asked me if anyone is running AutoCAD on a Mac - is there?

[Augi Doggie]

A colleague asked me if anyone is running AutoCAD on a Mac - is there?

Nope, there is no version of AutoCAD for the Mac operating system. Last I heard, they're not going to produce one any time soon, if ever.

[kwong]

OK, how about anyone who may be using some Mac software that'll enable them to run PC software on their Macs - it's probably not the best but I think there are some programs that do that & I'm just wondering if they'll run AutoCAD & if so, has anyone tried it & what the performance is like.

[Filipe Francisco]

A colleague asked me if anyone is running AutoCAD on a Mac - is there?

No, but take a look on this post
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...&highlight=mac


Best Regards

[jaberwok]

A colleague asked me if anyone is running AutoCAD on a Mac - is there?

Try this thread and the links within it.

[michael.12445]

See the links / threads referenced by the other posts...

...Note to Autodesk: this question is appearing with increasing frequency - someone seems to be asking it about once a week now...

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.

[tvanniekerk]

I am using a Macbook Pro and running WinXP through Parallels with one exclusive aim: AUTODESK software. Had it not been for Autodesk's afinity for Windows, I'd happily wave Windows farewell, never to return.

Still, Parallels Windows works ok, albeit with all the Windows hickups of having to restart regularly (I almost never restart OS/X!!!), mostly because Mac OS/X manages the hardware.

When the day comes that Autodesk announces Mac versions, I'll be in the cue, near the front!!

[CADDmanVA]

I am using a Macbook Pro and running WinXP through Parallels with one exclusive aim: AUTODESK software. Had it not been for Autodesk's afinity for Windows, I'd happily wave Windows farewell, never to return.

Still, Parallels Windows works ok, albeit with all the Windows hickups of having to restart regularly (I almost never restart OS/X!!!), mostly because Mac OS/X manages the hardware.

When the day comes that Autodesk announces Mac versions, I'll be in the cue, near the front!!

Sigh...I feel very much the same for Linux. AutoDesk's love of Microsoft really needs to stop. I will continue to wait.

[michael.12445]

One of our clients is a large construction company, and we have been working closely with one of their project managers. Because he is constantly attending meetings, visiting job sites, etc., he relies on his laptop. In February, his laptop's disk crashed, so he bought a new one, which came with Vista. Then he discovered that none of his applications (including AutoCAD 2006) would work on Vista, which consumed massive resources to just sit there doing nothing. He took the laptop back to where he bought it, got his money back, and spent it on a new disk for his old laptop - asking the repair facility to use his old recovery CD to install XP on it.

Now he's back in business, but I'm guessing that the machine he returned, sitting in a warehouse somewhere, counts as one of the 40 million Vista licenses Micro$oft claims to have sold since its introduction in January. And I doubt this story is unique.

Is this rock to which they've hitched their wagon Autodesk's vision of the future?

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.

[arminda]

I was wondering the same thing, so I searched the forum.
I have a 13" MacBook at home in which I tested the software months ago when the new macs with intel came out. We installed bootcamp and installed AutoCad and REvit. All the software runs great, with no problem, I use a right click mouse that helps with the commands. There's no loss of performance.
I liked it so much, I just bought a new MacBook Pro and did the same thing.
I was going to install Parallels but was persuaded not to as you loose 10% of the performance.
The more I use the computer, the more I wish I could just run Autocad in Mac and ditch windows forever...I guess that's why Autodesk won't offer a Mac version.. Microsoft would loose too many people- because they just s--ck!