3D Design for Engineering

[johnywalker1989]

I want to know if there is any app out there which is natively created for Mac and can work like Inventory or Catia.

 

[fuxl]

I'd be curious to see something like that too!
Have been using Catia and Inventor for years at work on a Windows machine.
Would be nice to see something native for the Mac.

 

[Pedro Julio]

The only CAD programs I've heard of that run native on Mac are AutoCAD and Rhinoceros. Neither would be ideal though; AutoCAD is clunky, and Rhino isn't parametric.

 

[johnywalker1989]

Why no-one cares about that..

 

[Pedro Julio]

Why no-one cares about that..

No one cares about what, exactly?

 

[tslewis]

The only CAD programs I've heard of that run native on Mac are AutoCAD and Rhinoceros. Neither would be ideal though; AutoCAD is clunky, and Rhino isn't parametric.

yes it is and has been for over two-three years if you use grasshopepr which is a free plug-in on the pc side. It is currently being devleoped for rhino OSX. Both the pc and os versions of rhino are being developed from a common language called rhinocommon, ideally any parametric workflwos/scripts/plug-ns you develop on pc side can be used on the OS side.

Why are people still usign autocad?its a 2 d drafting program and no where near as powerful as 3d nurbs modelling programs like rhino/inventor/catia.