There has been a great deal of research and discussions about the Mac and AutoCAD, but it is no simple change or effort. I spotted fellow Autodesk employees “deskers” like Tom Stoeckel using a Mac at Autodesk University 2008 a little over a week ago.Īs for a official Autodesk support of virtualized AutoCAD or a native Mac based AutoCAD, only time will tell and ever journey begins with a small step forward. Parallels Desktop and VMWare Fusion can run AutoCAD on the OSX desktop in a window. It caused a bit of a stir from people passing by as they are not used to seeing AutoCAD and a Mac in the same sentence although Autodesk does develop several popular native Mac based applications like Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, and others.Īpple Bootcamp runs AutoCAD much faster but there is a downside in that you have to boot to it. We showed AutoCAD 2009 running on a Mac using VMWare Fusion last week at Autodesk University 2008 in the General Design booth. If you are having issues locking your activations, and are running an external hard drive, try booting up with the drive off or unplugged then add it back later and see if that resolves the issue.
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We have found a software activation issue but in all cases we have researched it is related to an external hard drive causing a conflict with the licensing.
AutoCAD is not officially supported on the Mac, but works just fine as have other Autodesk Windows based products like Revit and 3ds max. The short answer is Yes.Ĭurrently at Autodesk we have tested AutoCAD 2007, 2008, and 2009 on the Mac in Apple Bootcamp and virtualized solutions VMWare Fusion, and Parallels Desktop. One common question on this blog, emails, and in person is “W ill AutoCAD run on a Mac".
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