Anyone have a recommendation for a simple CAD package that runs well on Apple’s OS X? (10.4.5, to be exact).
Searched the archives and no chatter on this since 2003.
NotAclue
Anyone have a recommendation for a simple CAD package that runs well on Apple’s OS X? (10.4.5, to be exact).
Searched the archives and no chatter on this since 2003.
NotAclue
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Vectorworks has an apple version
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VectorWorks _is_ Mac and Win, but I wouldn't call it simple. But then, most CAD isn't simple. The recommendations would be based on needs, as in, whatcha gonna do with it? Floor plans, 3D, sketches? http://www.architosh.com/ shows some of the alternatives.
Check out Sketchup - it's truly amazing in it's simplicity and power.I am also on a Mac and downloaded about 4-5 Cad programs to try and then found Sketchup. I'm done looking - didn't really need cad, just a better way to illustrate what I think up.Check out their web tutorials to get a feel for what it can do.http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/training/tutorials50/Sketchup%20Video%20Tutorials.htmlRegards,Julian
Thank you all, folks.
I'm starting my hunt with your recommendations.
NotaClue
MacDraft.
i saw MacCad once. it does the basics, and was less than $100
While we use VectorWorks and SketchUp there is a simple 2-D shareware CAD program for the Mac called CADintosh from Mark Lemke the same guy who gave us MacUsers the great shareware program Graphic Converter
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Does anyone know off hand, whether any of these relatively simple packages for the Mac create drawings that can then be imported into the industry standard products from Autodesk? (AutoCAD)It would help the paper-and-pencil architect that I'm trying to teach general computer use too...If computers take with him and he decides to go fancy with importing things into Autodesk at his son-in-law's architecture practice, then we won't have wasted all the time we spend on doing something on a Mac already in a simpler package (He's old school; done a done of stuff, all paper and pencil, then retired three years ago---and his wife said, "Oh No You Don't, I don't want you around the house all day!" and now he's busy again....and would like to learn computers---and I'm trying to help....)He's already comfortable in simple applications on a Mac, that's why we aren't going straight to an Autodesk full strength package....Thanks...
Everyone's been quite helpful so far and I tried to answer this question myself by drifting from website to website, but figured that asking was the surest way to know.NotAClue
Edited 3/3/2006 12:49 am by NotaClue