![]() Autodesk senior vice president Amar Hanspal says the release of additional AutoCAD products for Mac should end all such speculations: “Bringing AutoCAD LT and AutoCAD WS to the Mac shows our continued commitment to making design more accessible for an ever-greater number of people to shape the world around them.”Īutodesk is seeing market traction for AutoCAD in Apple’s traditional markets “a heavy artistic skew” is how one employee described it. (Source: Autodesk)Īfter the initial release of AutoCAD for Mac in 2010, some industry watchers speculated Autodesk’s commitment to the Mac platform was still in the “wondering if there is a market” stage. AutoCAD for Mac 2012 includes new constraint and array commands. “Buying AutoCAD LT is not like buying a new level in a game or another month of the New York Times.”Īutodesk is also offering AutoCAD for Mac 2012 free to qualified students and educators through the Autodesk Education Community. ![]() “This is not a normal corporate approach to buying software,” an Autodesk employee told GraphicSpeak. ![]() ![]() Part of the reason for the limited geographic release of LT is because Autodesk wants to test selling it only through the Apple Mac App Store, which requires customers to have an Apple ID. AutoCAD for Mac will be available August 19 worldwide AutoCAD LT for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac are now available, but LT is for now only available in the US and Canada. The releases come later than the rest of Autodesk’s portfolio as the company needed to wait for the release of Apple’s OS X Lion, which allows the program to have additional user interface features.ĪutoCAD LT for Mac ($899) and AutoCAD WS for Mac (free) will be available only on the Mac App Store. AutoCAD for Mac 2012 offers almost all features available in the Windows version, including 3D design capability. It will also be available on as part of a subscription bundle. AutoCAD for Mac 2012 will be sold through Autodesk’s regular channels, and will also be the first professional-level application (and possibly the highest priced at $3,995) to be sold on the Mac App store. Waiting for OS X Lion contributed to the later release, compared to all other 2012 products.Īutodesk today announced an update to AutoCAD for Mac, and introduced AutoCAD LT for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac. AutoCAD LT for Mac and AutoCAD WS for Mac will be available exclusively in the Mac App Store.
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