Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- Subject: Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- From: Mark Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:36:39 +0200
Doug McNutt wrote:
>At 13:54 -0300 10/16/04, Bill Briggs wrote:
>>Anyone have any experience of or opinions about the best Mac OS X
>compatible CAD software.
>
>Vectorworks, once known as MiniCAD, is still pretty much Mac-like.
Another vote for Vectorworks as a safe, powerful, reliable and mac-like product. Its usually well supported too via a qualified reseller system (at least here in Europe).
When you say engineering CAD, I'm assuming that you are talking about the type of work that nowadays, on other platforms, gets done in ProEngineer or Catia ?
If you are willing to (learn to) work in a (possibly) different way (with surfaces, meshes, primitives and nurbs rather than connecting lines) and have some freedom about how you work, IMO, the best package of this type on the Mac is FormZ. You start pretty much from scratch with it rather than with a vast array of pre-programmed routines and libraries (a la AutoCAD, PE and Catia), but it can do ANYTHING and is particularly useful for (fast) prototyping.
(One can also bend Maya into a useful engineering CAD application. It depends a lot on what you are designing - obviously.)
Another tool which is VERY useful for quickdrafts and is by no means restricted to architecture is Sketchup.
I'd start by taking a good look at Vectorworks and FormZ.
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