This one's for you J-F J ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuvVgb5-NVI

I would prefer a good 3D mobile App, to demonstrate designs (exploded view, and measurement tools). I would prefer something like a Sketchup mobile app.... but this is what Autodesk will have to offer.

http://butterfly.autodesk.com/mobile/

i reckon it's a pile of old pants - but as suggested - it should be good for the Mac platform

I should qualify that I have tried repeatedly to use ACAD on PC - but it found no love with me

Each to their own I guess : )

I agree with all the comments posted so far.

The only use I would find for it would be to ensure I could read DWG files in without losing anything in the translation and to be able to resave drawings in another format if required. Although not flawless, VC/Shark does a very respectable job of handling DWG/DXF.

If it was the right price I may just consider it. Unfortunately it will probably be 10 or 20 times more expensive than I could justify.

If anyone needs an excellent AutoCAD clone that runs native on the Mac I would suggest looking at ARES Commander. Available as a trial here:

http://new.graebert.com/index.p...d=103&Itemid=107&lang=en

Personally I am looking forward to the Mac version of DraftSight from Dassault due out by the end of this year. This will be FREE.
Details of PC version here:

http://www.3ds.com/products/dra...raftsight-overview/#vid1

Thank you AutoCAD, I'm sure it will be a hit with some, but i'll pass.

What about Siemens NX ? (a.k.a Unigraphics to a lot of us). It's been out on the Mac for about 4 years now. NX is a big gun in the CAD market and I havn't heard any talk from them of needing to wait for Mac graphic card certification etc?
Having said that, I haven't met an NX owner who doesn't run it on some form of PC Workstation either!

I'm afraid, I disagree. Where is Solidworks? A year ago Dassault were saying that SW would be available for the both the cloud and on the Mac. Now that Fielder Hiss fellow is saying that OS's are irrelevant. Having AutoCAD on Mac is going to do a lot for the Mac, especially within the architecture circles, many of whom actively share the DWG format.

I also disagree strongly with the second above comment. If you're going to spend that kind of money, PowerCADD 8 is a far better pedigree of 2D package. If you want 3D, get Rhino. Both these are Cocoa native (unlike ARES which is not- as that has been developed on the horrible QT development framework- same as QCAD). Shark LT too, although not Cocoa (but it feels like it does have a lot of Mac technology in there), is a better buy than ARES.



Apart from that gawd-awful ribbon across the top! ;) (That also applies to Acad. I believe there is no ribbon on the Mac version? :) ) Have you tried 3D Studio Max too? That (albiet the ribbon) is very Mac-like too.

The bottom line is that any new and half decent CAD system on Mac is a great addition. :)

Tom

Well yes, that's a good point, but there are alternatives which are much better. I believe Bricsys is also coming to Mac.



I own a seat of MacDraft. MacDraft is nowhere near PowerCADD in terms of power, configuration and ease of use. MacDraft is actually quite difficult to use, especially when setting up paper sizes and layers. PowerCADD is very underrated imho.



I use the 13 Ribbonsoft QCad (also built in QT). It's interface is simple to use, is a lot easier to use than MacDraft (if you like for eg, Acad LT), but Qcad's file management is a dog, and QCad works more like a PC/Linux app than a Mac app. For eg, it won't let you search using Spotlight among other OSX OS niceties.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly will be downloading DraftSight once it's ready, but I do really like the whole interface and workflow thing of Mac OSX compared to Windows, and being built on QT, I'm not holding out on DraftSight.



Yes it is true, Rhino is still in beta, however it is very easy to join the beta team, and Bob is very keen that Rhino, until it is released, is free for all to use. Rhino's existing DWG translators are excellent, and can handle complex 3D DWG AutoCAD files with ease.

$4K sounds more than resonable if you look at the quality of the tool icons.;)

Yes, the tool icons are rubbish. I can't make head or tail of them. Which brings me on to another thing, why can't developers (and this includes Tim), allow for text below tools? Text, which to be fair is available in both the MS ribbon and the Cocoa title bar, would make tool recognition so much quicker and easier. :)