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I'm a mechanical engineer, my personal preference for 2D drawings is AutoCAD but 3D CAE is Solidworks. I'm not sure I could personally make the switch until Sol

I'm a mechanical engineer, my personal preference for 2D drawings is AutoCAD but 3D CAE is Solidworks. I'm not sure I could personally make the switch until Solidworks was availble because I spend about 90% of my time in Solidworks but only 10% in AutoCAD, but if Inventor went to Mac that's pretty close to Solidworks. (Is Pro/E on Mac? I know it is available on Linux) My brother is an architect and his primary tool is AutoCAD, he could absolutely make the switch to a mac if that were available, in fact having to boot into Windows most of the time anyway is the reason he did not spend extra and get a Macbook Pro last time he bought a laptop.

pingswept 16y ago
I've been waiting for Solidworks on anything but Windows since approximately 1997. I've been considering switching to Autodesk Inventor recently, and this might push me over the edge. The last piece of software holding me to Windows then would be PCB layout software. Also, I believe that Pro/E doesn't support Linux anymore. I believe the most recent release, Wildfire 5, only runs on Windows and, strangely, 64-bit Solaris.
wwortiz 16y ago
I think Pro/E stopped supporting linux (or maybe solaris) recently (like wildfire 3 or something like that) if so I doubt it is available on the mac