

I don’t yet have a Mac, myself – although I’m about to buy a new system and suspect that the sensible choice, at this stage, would be to get a Mac (albeit one that makes heavy use of Boot Camp :-) - so I’ve had to borrow the below image to show you what it looks like.Īnd here’s the launch video accompanying the announcement, for your viewing pleasure.

But we’re doing our best to provide a core set of features that will allow Mac users to take full advantage of AutoCAD running natively on OSX.Īnother significant change: the user interface has been modified to suit the platform. Notable omissions include layer states, layer filters, the Sheet Set Manager and DWF/DGN/PDF underlay support. The overall feature set is pretty comparable with that of AutoCAD 2011 for Windows, although you will clearly find some gaps, for now. For now that means a subset of ObjectARX and AutoLISP will be available to developers and customers working on AutoCAD for Mac: we’ll see how that changes, over time. To clarify something about this release, it is not AutoCAD LT – it has full 3D editing capabilities and support for applications. After months (probably ev en more) of intense speculation, Autodesk has just announced that after a break of several (perhaps 15, depending on how you count them) releases, we’re planning to deliver a version of AutoCAD that once again works natively on Mac machines.
