A couple of years ago, I reported on the missing features in AutoCAD 2011 for Mac. While some generous souls were prepared to accept something half-baked as a first attempt, even that excuse doesn’t wash when it comes to a third iteration. So how well is Autodesk doing at filling those holes? Decide for [...]
 30 July 2012, 9:36 pm |  18 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Mac, OS X, Revit | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2013, Customisation, DCL, Fail, Interoperability I have closed the polls asking if you trusted various companies to do the right thing by their customers. Here is a summary of the results, showing the percentage of “Yes” votes for each company. The most trusted company is at the top, the least trusted is at the bottom. Honda 69% Amazon 65% [...] I have closed the Which of these is most evil? poll, which had been running from 20 February 2009. It attracted 2,351 voters, each of whom could distribute up to three votes among thirteen (yes, that number was deliberate) candidates. Here are the ranked results: Satan (36%, 846 Votes) Microsoft (31%, 721 Votes) Apple (26%, 614 Votes) [...] 14 November 2011, 1:53 pm |  One comment | Tags: Apple, Autodesk, Big Content, Brown list, Dell, Disney, Evil, Gaahl, Google, Microsoft, Miley Cyrus, RIAA/IFPI/MPAA, Satan, Sony, Spam, The Pirate Bay | Category: Apple, Autodesk, Fail, Fun, Hardware, Microsoft, Music, Polls, Rant, Thoughts Using AutoCAD 2012 for Mac? Don’t use special characters such as # in your folder names, because AutoCAD will, under certain circumstances, delete whole folders worth of files when you open a drawing. See here and here for more detailed information. 13 October 2011, 3:05 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2012, Bug, Tip As reported on Without a Net, there is a second update for AutoCAD 2011 for Mac. This will be welcome news to those of you who have discovered that AutoCAD crashes when using Copy/Paste after installing the 10.6.7 OS X update. If you haven’t applied Update 1 yet, you will need to do that [...] 1 April 2011, 10:50 am | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Copy, Crash, Paste, Update | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Bug, Other Blogs Congratulations to Ralph Grabowski, winner of my AutoCAD WS contest. His entry of Workspace was chosen by the greatest number of voters as the hidden meaning behind the WS in AutoCAD WS. Ralph, your prize awaits! Just visit the App Store and you’ll soon be running a real live AutoCAD on your iPod [...] 18 October 2010, 9:59 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD WS | Category: Apple, Cloud, Fun, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Polls, Win You may remember my pre-release speculation about what was likely to be missing from the Mac version of AutoCAD 2011. It turns out that my list was pretty accurate as far as it went, but very incomplete. In a move that I can only applaud, Autodesk has now published its own list of missing [...] 17 October 2010, 9:57 am | 19 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Customisation, DCL, Development, Fail Get it here. Or don’t. Whatever. 15 October 2010, 11:41 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Meh | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011 Deelip has just published an extensive interview with several Autodesk people about AutoCAD for the Mac. Deelip had a good set of questions and I suggest you read the whole thing, but if it’s all too tl;dr for you, then here is the lazy reader’s version of what Autodesk had to say: The AutoCAD [...] 13 September 2010, 3:25 pm | One comment | Tags: AutoCAD for Linux, AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD WS, Deelip Menezes | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Development, Interview, Linux, Other Blogs, Spin Autodesk’s linking app to allow iThings to connect to Project Butterfly is called AutoCAD WS. Never mind the “AutoCAD”, that’s just there to confuse matters. What does the “WS” stand for? William Shatner, perhaps? There’s no official answer, but I thought it might be fun to run a contest for the most appropriate and/or [...] In a post on WorldCAD Access, Jay Vleeschhouwer makes some reasonable observations. However, the timing of the 1990s Autodesk / Mac history looks all wrong to me. Jay quotes himself from a 2008 note: …until about the mid-1990s Autodesk did have a reasonable presence on the Mac … commitment waned when Apple’s fortunes faded [...] 6 September 2010, 1:02 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Jay Vleeschhouwer, WorldCAD Access | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Nostalgia, Other Blogs Good news! Autodesk has announced an app that will link iPads and iPhones to Project Butterfly. This provides viewing, markup and limited editing facilities. Bad news! Autodesk has decide to call it AutoCAD WS, which is bordering on the fraudulent. It’s not AutoCAD, is nothing like it, and is unlikely to ever be anything like [...] 3 September 2010, 5:28 pm | 2 comments | Tags: Flash, He's going to save every one of us, Lulz, WTF? | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Fail, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products, Spin, Web Stuff According to Autodesk, the forthcoming OS X version of AutoCAD has “many of the powerful AutoCAD features and functionality.” So what doesn’t it have? What are the holes? Autodesk hasn’t bothered to let me know a single thing about this software, so I guess I’ll just indulge in some irresponsible and uninformed speculation, based [...] 1 September 2010, 6:06 pm | 8 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Apple, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Customisation, Spin, Thoughts According to Macworld, Autodesk has now made its worst-kept secret, AutoCAD for Mac OS X, official. There are also goodies for those with cute little rectangles: Autodesk also announced that the new Mac version of AutoCAD would be accompanied by the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod [...] 31 August 2010, 11:07 am | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac | Category: Announcement, Apple, AutoCAD 2011, Other Sites According to Shaan, Autodesk does not discuss its future plans. Or does it? In a comment, Ralph reckoned it does. Putting aside technology previews and various NDA-bound circumstances (e.g. Beta testing), can you think of cases where Autodesk has revealed what it intends to do in future? Here are a few off the top [...] 26 May 2010, 1:57 pm | 6 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Autodesk, Bizzaro World, Secrecy | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Legal, Microsoft, Other Blogs, Spin, Thoughts Disclaimer: I have absolutely no access to inside information about this Beta. Even if I had, I would not reveal anything that I had learned as a result of such access. This post discusses only information that is already public knowledge. The native Mac OS X AutoCAD port that Autodesk has been foreshadowing for [...] 24 May 2010, 12:25 pm | 4 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, Beta software, Confidentiality, Leak | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Interoperability, Other Sites, Performance, Video, Web Stuff Despite it being A Bad Idea, it look like Autodesk is going ahead with making some kind of OS X variant of AutoCAD, as has been hinted at for a while now. Owen Wengerd has pointed out a few dead giveaways in the AutoCAD API. Another giveaway is the move to the browser-based Help [...] 13 April 2010, 2:55 pm | 5 comments | Tags: API, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD for Mac, Owen Wengerd | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Other Blogs I often see calls for Autodesk to support AutoCAD on Linux. Just like AutoCAD for the Mac, while I can sympathise with the users of that OS, I think a native port of AutoCAD for Linux would be a bad idea. Again, I think it would be bad for everybody: Autodesk, AutoCAD for Windows [...] 10 June 2009, 2:08 pm | 25 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD for Linux, AutoCAD for Mac, Linu | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Fail, Linux, Nostalgia, Thoughts A comment from Kal on Between the Lines mentions an AutoCAD Release 10.5 for Mac. My memory of ancient and useless AutoCAD trivia is usually pretty good, but this time things are a bit foggy and I need some help. I definitely remember there being some kind of half-release of AutoCAD for Mac*, but [...] 3 June 2009, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD for Mac, CAD History, Cadalyst | Category: Apple, AutoCAD, Cadalyst, Nostalgia |
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Why don’t you trust Autodesk?
As I mentioned earlier, any company that wants to move its customers to the Cloud is going to need the trust of those customers. Three months ago, I started a poll to try to get some measure of how trustworthy you consider Autodesk to be, in terms of doing the right thing by its [...]