![]() ![]() The company will work directly with some select developers at bringing their tools over. A core behind the hood achievement recently is what has happened technically to allow multiple platform support at the Autodesk Store for third-party developers. For instance AutoCAD 2014 for Mac and the LT version both have new Autodesk 360 support.īut the company is reaching the point where they can turn more detailed attention to spurring on development of third-party apps. And there will be specific new classes on AutoCAD for Mac at the next AU (Autodesk University).Īutodesk has focused on the core infrastructure and feature set in all the past releases of AutoCAD for Mac, including this one. Under the third Extend tab you can now find connections where–in the near future–there will be a series of new training specifically on AutoCAD for Mac. Getting the message out there, making Mac-based AutoCAD users feel more at home and dramatically increasing learning opportunities for the AutoCAD for Mac user is a big priority for the company and you can see it in the small and large changes in this latest release. Dickerson said, “we know this is happening and we are going to solve this…”Ġ3 – The new Retina display is nontrivial. This turns into a point of frustration and the student then runs the Windows version in an emulator or Bootcamp on their Mac. Students in engineering (in college) are grabbing the free educational version of AutoCAD for Mac and loading it onto their MacBook Pro and then coming into class where the lab or teacher is familiar with only the Windows version and because there are small differences in the UI/UX the teacher often cannot help the student. Dickerson said that for instance there are growing members of Mac AutoCAD users entering the official AutoCAD forums at Autodesk and so they are making it easier for users to find those types of resources and to fit more in to the larger AutoCAD community.Īnother interesting thing Dickerson said about education is what is happening in colleges and schools. The Welcome Screen has some welcome changes, most notably on the third tab where social and community extensions come into play. There is a big effort of change in this release with how one goes about learning and mastering AutoCAD. Dickerson said Autodesk is adjusting and learning how to serve this community well. Another segment is that many are very young and in school and are Mac users who are learning CAD for the first time. Part of this is that they are Mac CAD users who have recently adopted the program. ![]() They are a new class of CAD user for a variety of reasons. Those CAD pundits and critics are turning out to be wrong.ĭickerson has already stated to Architosh in the past that AutoCAD for Mac users use the product a bit differently than most veteran Windows AutoCAD users. ![]() And they often cited things like a lack of third-party developers or major large end user installs as their evidence. You see, when AutoCAD for Mac originally came back to the platform a few years ago many CAD pundits seriously doubted the long-term viability and sincere interest behind the project. Enhanced help and learning resources is a big change in this version, including an all new written online help system which Autodesk described to us as more Google-like. Dickerson said this is because they have “put a lot of work and emphasis on things under the hood to get ready for the future.” And that’s one of the biggest points that needs to be emphasized here.Ġ1 – Though seemingly minor, AutoCAD 2014 for Mac’s new Welcome Screen offers many excellent new features for users and begins to fuse them into the larger AutoCAD community. Some may quickly see that AutoCAD 2014 for Mac is somewhat lacking in a lot of major new features. In fact, later today we shall here more in that direction. Micah Dickerson–who is an unabashed Mac fanboy at Autodesk–says Autodesk as a company has great enthusiasm for Apple’s resurgent OS X platform and its market leading iOS mobile platform. In this article we’ll cover more detail on the new release as well as some background on decisions and some forward-looking information about where Autodesk is taking AutoCAD for the Mac OS X platform. We have a separate article on the news of the new AutoCAD 2014 for Mac and the new AutoCAD LT 2014 for Mac here. Yesterday evening Micah Dickerson, product manager for AutoCAD for Mac at Autodesk, spoke to Architosh about their big release today. ![]()
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