The Making of AutoCAD for Mac

AutoCAD for Mac has been shipping not even a week (10/15/2010) yet tens of thousands have downloaded and tried the new product. This is a great beginning and return after an 18-year hiatus from the Apple Mac platform. It was a 2+ year project to review and rewrite some 14 million lines of code and removing some platform dependencies. Some features did not make the first release, but we covered most everything that users will need for 2D and 3D design and drafting. The team is not slowing down and are hard at work with much more to do.

Check out the "Behind the Scenes" AutoCAD for Mac video live on YouTube 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvp2rlILFU

AutoCAD for Mac has some features the Windows version does not besides the obvious of being a native Mac OSX application.

• The Viewport label menus

• Coordinate display in drawing area

• QuickView

• Dynamic Table creation

• Gestures
• Multi-threaded CPU core use via Grand Central Station dispatch

There are a few other unique abilities to AutoCAD for Mac, can you spot them?

Yesterday I presented in Toronto and I am currently in the process of landing in New York, then continuing on to Boston to present with Lynn Allen today. I better wrap this quick post up.

Cheers,
Shaan