Architosh discusses the upcoming move toward Apple that Autodesk appears to be making..
Sledgehammer appears to be the code name for either the first native version of AutoCAD for Mac in more than 18 years or the specific beta phase name. We think possibly the former. The sighting was first tipped off to us by readers who pointed us to enthusiast site Italiamac.it. Within its forums was a post that said basically (translated from the Italian) “I managed to get a beta of Mac AutoCAD showing some first screen shots.”
We have no information from Autodesk on what Sledgehammer is. Since this emerged for us over the weekend we’ll have to wait until the upcoming week to try to contact the company for an explanation. Interestingly, Architosh just had a private WebEx meeting with Autodesk a week ago (on a related product) and there was no mention of a native way to produce a DWG file on a Mac from within an Autodesk software program. We note this because, as you will read shortly in our upcoming feature, this was a shortcoming of the product that was previewed for us. - Architosh
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I hate it when applications have a bunch of floating windows... the one good thing about the Adobe products was the application frame - that is what AutoCAD will need!
does this mean revit is next?
@toasteroven - I think their concentration should be on optimization before porting it over to any other platform.
Just use ArchiCad
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