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Autodesk Releases AutoCAD LT on Mac App Store
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Well it is mostly for businesses as it is professional software...Nine hundred bucks? And they wonder why people torrent their software
I doubt many people who torrent it would even buy it if it was $100 tbh.
You have not had classes dedicated to modeling? I know my school had us learn ProE and then Gambit/Fluent, some Solidworks, Mechanica, etc
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I would pay that much for Inventor. ...or Solidworks, etc...
But... Autocad??? The world should have abandoned Autocad a decade ago already.
Dassault Systems made Draftsight with a few employees in their spare time, and it's identical to acad, more stable, cleaner, and its free.
But... Autocad??? The world should have abandoned Autocad a decade ago already.
Dassault Systems made Draftsight with a few employees in their spare time, and it's identical to acad, more stable, cleaner, and its free.
Apple's new spaceship Headquarters of course.
Grr.I see someone beat me to it.
By the way, one nice thing with it being on the App Store is being able to legally install it on multiple computers, too bad they can't put the full version there.
Nine hundred bucks? And they wonder why people torrent their software
Their yearly costs for programmers and managers on just this one app alone is well into the $millions.
This is no different than the massive prices for PhotoShop which is a simple paint program.
You go on to amazon.com and on to apple.com, you don't go into amazon.com... you would have to becomes electrons and do a 3d particle sweep into your monitor and over the internet lines to go into a web site...
yay! even with the price tag, it's a great start!
Cal Poly Pomona (engineering, science, and all other majors) salute you for this
Cal Poly Pomona (engineering, science, and all other majors) salute you for this
First, it "depends" on what you mean by free. It's free if you want a watermark on printouts, a 3 year license, no upgrade path, etc... There are reasons why someone in the education world (i.e. student) would want a full-featured non-educational version.
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It might help to identify the school here. In any event it has been far to long since school for me to answer that question. I will point out a couple of things though.
1. You will not likely learn everything you need to know about Auto CAD from college. I'd strongly advise a few AutoCAD specific training sessions after leaving school or even over the summer.
2. You may find out that you might not make use of AutoCAD at all after leaving school. It really depends upon many factors, some jobs don't require it for example. Further some places standardize on better software.
3. If you simply want to do engineering drawings on the Mac there are other solutions. Right now you can find Draftsite for free on the net.
4. Also if you just want to view drawings free CAD file viewers do a good job.
Ok 4 isn't a couple, however the points are still valid. The biggest problem I see with AutoCAD is that they are extremely proud of their software. $900 is a small fortune to pay for a cad package. Even worst AutoCAD outdates the software on a yearly basis.
Navdakilla said:
It might help to identify the school here. In any event it has been far to long since school for me to answer that question. I will point out a couple of things though.
1. You will not likely learn everything you need to know about Auto CAD from college. I'd strongly advise a few AutoCAD specific training sessions after leaving school or even over the summer.
2. You may find out that you might not make use of AutoCAD at all after leaving school. It really depends upon many factors, some jobs don't require it for example. Further some places standardize on better software.
3. If you simply want to do engineering drawings on the Mac there are other solutions. Right now you can find Draftsite for free on the net.
4. Also if you just want to view drawings free CAD file viewers do a good job.
Ok 4 isn't a couple, however the points are still valid. The biggest problem I see with AutoCAD is that they are extremely proud of their software. $900 is a small fortune to pay for a cad package. Even worst AutoCAD outdates the software on a yearly basis.
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Relentless is right. I suspect a good portion of the sticker price of AutoCAD goes to support these guys and their yachts. It is a lot of money for what amounts to a mature product ( in this case we are talking AutoCAD LT ).
More so it is very expensive when you consider how a lot of Engineers use the software.
dona83 said:
Relentless is right. I suspect a good portion of the sticker price of AutoCAD goes to support these guys and their yachts. It is a lot of money for what amounts to a mature product ( in this case we are talking AutoCAD LT ).
More so it is very expensive when you consider how a lot of Engineers use the software.
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For basic 2&3D CAD it is a joke. Especially considering these are mature products. What is worst is that AutoCAD milks you for money every year.
mdriftmeyer said:
For basic 2&3D CAD it is a joke. Especially considering these are mature products. What is worst is that AutoCAD milks you for money every year.
Damn, that would make a fantastic movie. One guy and his epic quest across america to find the mac app store.... and poke it.
Engineering degrees from schools around here don't focus much on modeling either. I do notice MET degrees have a bit more classes in it, but the only degrees that get heavily involved in CAD are AA degrees in drafting/design.
I have used AutoCAD to do things such as determine buoyancy and center of gravity of a boat I designed in high school. IIRC, all AutoCAD did was export the dimensions into excel and the calculations were done in a very basic spreadsheet. Nothing compared to what I've done in even a basic statics class though. I can see how AutoCAD would be helpful to an engineer, but there is other software that is much better for engineering purposes than AutoCAD.
I think schools are more concerned with teaching the process of testing ideas and theory than they are with designing something, at least in straight up engineering programs.
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I don't buy this at all! AUtoCAD LT is essentially a mature product, while a team might have been needed to port to the Mac maintenance of the product is virtually nothing.
Like it or not Drawing packages are mature technologies. As others have mentioned you can get Draftsite, a CAD package from a major company, for free. AutoCAD is far to focused on draining customers of free cash. That would t be so bad if they actually progressed the products in an aggressive manner but they don't. Instead they use the cash flow to build new products, so essentially you pay AutoCAD to design new software you might never use.
Some one previosly likened AutoCAD vendors to vulture and used car salesman. In a sense he was absolutely right. Oh and by the way I susPect that these guys take a bigger cut than Apple.
csiguy said:Nine hundred bucks? And they wonder why people torrent their software
Their yearly costs for programmers and managers on just this one app alone is well into the $millions.
This is no different than the massive prices for PhotoShop which is a simple paint program.
You go on to amazon.com and on to apple.com, you don't go into amazon.com... you would have to becomes electrons and do a 3d particle sweep into your monitor and over the internet lines to go into a web site...
I don't buy this at all! AUtoCAD LT is essentially a mature product, while a team might have been needed to port to the Mac maintenance of the product is virtually nothing.
Like it or not Drawing packages are mature technologies. As others have mentioned you can get Draftsite, a CAD package from a major company, for free. AutoCAD is far to focused on draining customers of free cash. That would t be so bad if they actually progressed the products in an aggressive manner but they don't. Instead they use the cash flow to build new products, so essentially you pay AutoCAD to design new software you might never use.
Some one previosly likened AutoCAD vendors to vulture and used car salesman. In a sense he was absolutely right. Oh and by the way I susPect that these guys take a bigger cut than Apple.
most definitely "in" the store NOT "on" the store. doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
all the more reason i make my point which is factual and correct.
true, you can't touch the store but you can purchase an app from within the store. hello, I'm right on this.
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no. you are not stupid at all. most likely somebody at Apple started the "On" the store thing and now everybody thinks that is correct.
Don't know why your so surprised, the only people who use auto cad are professionals who work for companies or professionals who work for themselves.
it's not like photoshop were every man and his dog wants it for fun ( as well as pro's of course).
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if it is a joke why does almost every engineering company use it? I don't find it a joke to be honest, I find it a good program for what it is intended to do.
Mine is working great, even better than on snow leopard, on snow leopard it kepis crashing and was a bit slow.
maybe it's because i just got the new air.
You could ask the same question about industrial cement mixers. I'm not sure you'd sell a lot more of them if you cut the price 90%. But I'm quite sure you wouldn't make any more money.
Developing software like that costs a lot of money. There are only a limited number of people who need it. Hence, they pay a lot of money.