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Joinery based drawings, ie furniture, reception counters, bars, hotel and restaurant fit outs, i'am wanting to move to apple (imac) what is the general software that people use for my application, cheers


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 10:36 am
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I though AutoCAD [i]was [/i]available for Macintosh now?


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 10:44 am
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If it's 2D CAD you are after, Draftsight is free and I think works on Mac.
Pretty much AutoCAD, but done by the people who do Solidworks....


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 10:47 am
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I have used Cadintosh, from Lemkesoft, but if Draftsight is available I'd use that.


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 10:50 am
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Draftsight is great for 2D/2.5D once you're used to it.

If you want an entire CAD/CAM toolchain, even with paid software I'm afraid OS X is disappointing. There's way more software out there for Windows, so if you want to do 3D, I'd look into bootcamp, Windows and probably Solidworks.


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 11:17 am
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Vectorworks is available for Apple - decent enough package with a fair number of architectural users but its a bit like Campag vs Shimano and SRAM


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 5:58 pm
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AutoCAD for Mac: http://www.autodesk.com/solutions/mac-compatible-software


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 6:09 pm
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:mrgreen:


 
Posted : 02/01/2015 6:20 pm
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+1 on draftsight if you are working in 2D, it free and it's pretty much the same as AutoCAD LT. I also use AutoCAD 2015 for Mac


 
Posted : 03/01/2015 8:54 am
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Try sketchup, it's free but depending on your requirements may be a bit rudimentary


 
Posted : 03/01/2015 11:07 am
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rudimentary

"Error: You can't do that, ya tosser"

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Posted : 03/01/2015 11:12 am