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IMO that sounds like one of the worst management decisions Ive ever heard. You know what AutoCAD needs? It needs to work on Apple. I have never seen an Apple

IMO that sounds like one of the worst management decisions Ive ever heard. You know what AutoCAD needs? It needs to work on Apple. I have never seen an Apple computer at any company Ive worked at. Have a team spend multiple years working on cross compatibility instead of automation in 2018? This sounds like someone in management saw that 10% of computers are apple and wants that market share. Whoever made this decision was not a designer.

unrealchild 8y ago
AutoCAD has a MacOS build, last I checked.
rurban 8y ago
AutoCAD works fine on my Macbook Air, native. Even in a trial version for free. Since about r2013
- 2_listerine_pls 8y ago
  Still a worse version.
  - rurban 8y ago
    Nope, everything is fine. Same version as on Windows. I prefer FreeCAD though. More functionality, better BIM and better parametric constraints.
bryanlarsen 8y ago
According to the article it was the port to Mac that made the web port possible. Once they had nice portable code paid for by the Apple porting effort they then used it for web assembly too. I really doubt that creating the portable code just for web assembly would ever have been justified.
- mkirklions 8y ago
  This seems like its going to be more limiting than anything. For basic apps, cross platform is needed. For AutoCAD you dont casually buy it. You probably knew weeks or months in advanced you would need AutoCAD. You have the infrastructure or are planning to buy it. What designers need is features and automation, not web/apple access. I only imagine that having a web app and cross platform capabilities is going to mean updates/new features take more manpower, more time, and are limited by conflicts.
  - bryanlarsen 8y ago
    They appear to be using the new code in Windows too. I suspect that it's now a lot faster to do updates and new features because they've rewritten using modern techniques rather than a mish-mash of code accumulated over the last 35! years.
    - mkirklions 8y ago
      fair point :)
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unrealchild 8y ago

AutoCAD has a MacOS build, last I checked.

rurban 8y ago

AutoCAD works fine on my Macbook Air, native. Even in a trial version for free. Since about r2013

2_listerine_pls 8y ago
Still a worse version.
- rurban 8y ago
  Nope, everything is fine. Same version as on Windows. I prefer FreeCAD though. More functionality, better BIM and better parametric constraints.

bryanlarsen 8y ago

According to the article it was the port to Mac that made the web port possible. Once they had nice portable code paid for by the Apple porting effort they then used it for web assembly too. I really doubt that creating the portable code just for web assembly would ever have been justified.

mkirklions 8y ago
This seems like its going to be more limiting than anything. For basic apps, cross platform is needed. For AutoCAD you dont casually buy it. You probably knew weeks or months in advanced you would need AutoCAD. You have the infrastructure or are planning to buy it. What designers need is features and automation, not web/apple access. I only imagine that having a web app and cross platform capabilities is going to mean updates/new features take more manpower, more time, and are limited by conflicts.
- bryanlarsen 8y ago
  They appear to be using the new code in Windows too. I suspect that it's now a lot faster to do updates and new features because they've rewritten using modern techniques rather than a mish-mash of code accumulated over the last 35! years.
  - mkirklions 8y ago
    fair point :)
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