AutoCAD for Mac- new beta screenshots!
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This is all getting rather cosy now!
First Screenshots of AutoCAD for Mac
Back in April we reported that AutoCAD was probably coming soon to the Mac, considering all the OS X references that were spotted in the SDK. Today we’ve received the first screenshots of an actual beta, running at 64-bit on Mac OS X. The app is names “Sledgehammer Beta 1”, doesn’t seem very polished yet
(www.macstories.net)
There's a beta, which I did sign up for, but nothing came back. Hopefully something may turn up soon!
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its about bloody time jeez. there should have been autocad for mac years ago.
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@olishea said:
its about bloody time jeez. there should have been autocad for mac years ago.
There was ! It was 'Release 12' - then Autodesk stopped supporting the Mac !
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@unknownuser said:
There was ! It was 'Release 12' - then Autodesk stopped supporting the Mac !
Sorry, didn't realise! I just assumed they never did one because I could never find a mac version. So I learnt vectorworks and archicad only to end up learning autocad at work!
I just emulate windows these days. sick of ranting about lack of mac! I really do hope they release this new one...... -
Release 12 was a looooong time ago ! 1993
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oh.....i was 6 years old then
the only autocad I was using was etch-a-sketch!
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That's how I started, just 30 years sooner - Etch-a-Sketch really has stood the test of time
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@olishea said:
oh.....i was 6 years old then
the only autocad I was using was etch-a-sketch!
That's about what it was. I predict (are the opinion police watching?) it will be long time (a couple years) before AutoCAD becomes viable on the Mac and longer before it is reliably compatible with the PC counterpart. But, good for AutoDesk (my not-to-distant neighbor). They are into a lot of different things these days. Good for our local economy. I hope they have an LT version. That's probably all I would use.
For the Mac use PowerCADD. (Of course that is not reliably compatible with AutoCAD either.)
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@pbacot said:
For the Mac use PowerCADD. (Of course that is not reliably compatible with AutoCAD either.)
Yes. PowerCADD is really good, but if Autodesk do pull it off, ACAD for Mac will be really good too- because as it looks, ACAD Mac is being built from the ground up in Cocoa/Obj-C!
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@tfdesign said:
@pbacot said:
For the Mac use PowerCADD. (Of course that is not reliably compatible with AutoCAD either.)
Yes. PowerCADD is really good, but if Autodesk do pull it off, ACAD for Mac will be really good too- because as it looks, ACAD Mac is being built from the ground up in Cocoa/Obj-C!
That IS cool.
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@pbacot said:
That IS cool.
Yes. Read Architosh's article here;
AutoCAD Sledgehammer for Mac in the wild
Autodesk appears serious about releasing AutoCAD for Mac. The rumors have spilled over to screenshots. But we think its more than rumors and screen shots this time.
Architosh (architosh.com)
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