AutoCAD finally arrives on Mac -- iPad and iPhone, too!

AutoCAD finally arrives on Mac -- iPad and iPhone, too!

Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, iPhone

Mac-loving engineers and architects, get excited: AutoCAD is finally coming to the Mac, and iOS devices, too. The last time AutoCAD ran natively on a Mac was well before OS X, before iPhones, and possibly before time itself: 1992. Let's not revisit those dark times, though, let's think about what this means for the future: no more running Windows on Parallels or Boot Camp just so you can have your Mac at work!

The Mac interface will be the same familiar AutoCAD everyone is used to from the Windows version, but it's been Mac-fied with Cover Flow and Multi-Touch pan and zoom. It uses AutoCAD's standard DWG document format, too, so it will play nicely with the Windows version (and some other CAD software.) The iPad version could be pretty amazing for presentations or changing a design on the fly, though. I can see the iPad becoming a staple in many architects' offices.

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