Topic: Autodesk on a Mac...anybody?

[sourdough]

Hi all, I just read they are introducing again Autodesk on a Mac. How does everyone feel about that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html?src=busln

Curious how the camp will vote.

MJP

[pkohut]

Hi all, I just read they are introducing again Autodesk on a Mac. How does everyone feel about that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html?src=busln

Curious how the camp will vote.

MJP

I Like!

[danallen]

great, now I've lost the last reason I had to explain why my office can't go mac

(not that I have anything against macs, other than the cost and the elitism, and I'm getting too old to learn new s*%^)

[Kerry]

And the available Programming API's are .. ??

 

[Jeff_M]

And the available Programming API's are .. ??

 

I think I still have some Apple Basic books here for the old 2E, I wonder if they will be of any use... 

[Kerry]

And the available Programming API's are .. ??

 

I think I still have some Apple Basic books here for the old 2E, I wonder if they will be of any use... 

I'll hold off rushing to do an Amazon search for a few days.

[It's Alive!]

My first computer was a Mac plus. I used Macs until the PowerPC 7400 before switching to the pc solely to use Acad. 
I'm not switching back to those yuppie candy looking things now.

X apple fanboy

[pkohut]

My first computer was a Mac plus. I used Macs until the PowerPC 7400 before switching to the pc solely to use Acad. 
I'm not switching back to those yuppie candy looking things now.

X apple fanboy

If I wasn't so spoiled with MSVS I'd switch completely to OS X. Other than the single menu instance for all applications (there's a couple hacks for that  ) and couple other UI annoyances, I really like the OS.

[pkohut]

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/31/the-mac-cracks-the-engineering-market/

AutoCAD is widely used in both those markets. According to Amar Hanspal, senior vice president for platform solutions at Autodesk, requests for a Mac version were coming with increasing frequency and could no longer be ignored.

The fact that Autodesk was working on the Mac edition was hardly a secret. More than 5,000 users participated in beta testing. Screen shots and YouTube videos of the program in action started appearing on the Web several months ago.

[pkohut]

Image from article -
http://www.macworld.com/article/153761/2010/08/autodesk.html

[It's Alive!]

So what do you use to code on a mac these days? I used to have a copy of code warrior.. I think it was for system 8 or 9.
Anyway, now I have an excuse to go visit the apple store 

[It's Alive!]

I wonder if MacAcad is truly native, or built using QT or similar...  that screen shot looks nice  :kewl:

[Mark]

utoCAD for Mac also offers users easy, cross-platform collaboration with suppliers, customers, clients, and partners because of its support for the DWG file format. Files created in previous versions of AutoCAD will open seamlessly in AutoCAD for Mac, the company says.

Plain DWG's perhaps.

[Mark]

Hi all, I just read they are introducing again Autodesk on a Mac. How does everyone feel about that?

I'm sure Apple is happy about it. Personally I could care less.

[pkohut]

So what do you use to code on a mac these days? I used to have a copy of code warrior.. I think it was for system 8 or 9.
Anyway, now I have an excuse to go visit the apple store 

Mostly XCode and Qt Creator.