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anyone using autocad on an apple?

Submitted by yayabalinci on October 30, 2006 - 5:46pm. Intel Macs

i'm use autocad to design my timber frames...i'd like to switch to apple but would like to speak with a designer that is running autocad on his/her apple

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AutoCAD does not run on Mac O

Submitted by Anhaedra on November 9, 2006 - 7:55am.

AutoCAD does not run on Mac OS, as far as I know... However you can run it in Parallels, or with Bootcamp, or possibly with Wine...

Wine is an interpreter for windows executables that allows you to run windows programs in the Mac OS, basically. It doesn't have perfect compatibility however, so it might work or it might not. I would try Crossover, it works better for me.

http://www.codeweavers.com/beta/cxmac/

It's just a version of Wine that is tweaked to be a bit easier to use and it just seems to work much better for me at least...

» Mac Pro 2Ghz 2GB RAM X1900XT 320GB HD 160GB HD 40GB HD 10.4.7 Sceptre 20.1inch widescreen LCD | Pismo 400Mhz 256MB 10GB HD 10.4.1 | Power Mac G3 400Mhz 640MB RAM 18GB SCSI array Rage 128 10.4.7 | Athlon 64 3000+ 1GB RAM Geforce 6800GT 120GB HD 80GB HD XP

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the new apples apparantly run windows, therefore autocad

Submitted by yayabalinci on November 9, 2006 - 5:08pm.

i think you are referring to the old macs, the new ones run windows on a partition and i would like to know if it is as easy and seemless as they say....are you saying you use autocad using Crossover? kind thanks

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Well if you don't mind bootin

Submitted by Anhaedra on November 9, 2006 - 8:24pm.

Well if you don't mind booting into windows every time you want to use Autocad, then that will work, yes.

» Mac Pro 2Ghz 2GB RAM X1900XT 320GB HD 160GB HD 40GB HD 10.4.7 Sceptre 20.1inch widescreen LCD | Pismo 400Mhz 256MB 10GB HD 10.4.1 | Power Mac G3 400Mhz 640MB RAM 18GB SCSI array Rage 128 10.4.7 | Athlon 64 3000+ 1GB RAM Geforce 6800GT 120GB HD 80GB HD XP

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