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Although it’s taken Autodesk more than 18 years to bring the gold standard of CAD software back to Apple’s Macintosh platform, there’s something to be said for the company’s strategy of waiting until it can be done properly. AutoCAD 2011 for Mac takes the market-leading tool for which Autodesk is famous, and couples it with an interface that remains true to the Mac environment while satisfying most of the demands of experienced AutoCAD users.
Perhaps the most significant difference between AutoCAD for Windows and the Mac version is that Autodesk chose to discard the ribbon interface featured in recent Windows releases of AutoCAD, in favor of putting the tools where Mac users expect them: on the Mac OS X menu bar. A rather substantial number of features from the Windows version simply didn’t make it into this “initial” release for Mac, as described in document TS15833488 on the Autodesk Website, especially in the area of layering and other tools. Likewise, many enterprise workflow features for which AutoCAD is famous are missing from the Mac release. Read More
Perhaps the most significant difference between AutoCAD for Windows and the Mac version is that Autodesk chose to discard the ribbon interface featured in recent Windows releases of AutoCAD, in favor of putting the tools where Mac users expect them: on the Mac OS X menu bar. A rather substantial number of features from the Windows version simply didn’t make it into this “initial” release for Mac, as described in document TS15833488 on the Autodesk Website, especially in the area of layering and other tools. Likewise, many enterprise workflow features for which AutoCAD is famous are missing from the Mac release. Read More
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