Besides the major CAD/CAM/CAE softwares, OneNote was the only software I really missed after moving to Mac/iphone. It is great for note-taking in general and made by one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft.
AutoCAD for Mac came out of beta stages recently. It is still rather clunky in usage. The GUI is also in need of a little love, but it works. Revit for Mac can't be that far off.
Vectorworks (used to be called MiniCAD) for Mac is still excelling in areas AutoCAD seems to have forgotten about. Its 2D drafting is unparalleled, although use in a multi-user environment is lacking. There is also ArchiCAD; a system second only to Bentley. Once one adapts to the different method of drafting in these apps they rarely want to go back to ACAD, if only for import/export checks.
Much like moving from Word to Pages... annoyingly odd at first but much more productive once learnt fully.
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Besides the major CAD/CAM/CAE softwares, OneNote was the only software I really missed after moving to Mac/iphone. It is great for note-taking in general and made by one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft.
AutoCAD for Mac came out of beta stages recently. It is still rather clunky in usage. The GUI is also in need of a little love, but it works. Revit for Mac can't be that far off.
Vectorworks (used to be called MiniCAD) for Mac is still excelling in areas AutoCAD seems to have forgotten about. Its 2D drafting is unparalleled, although use in a multi-user environment is lacking. There is also ArchiCAD; a system second only to Bentley. Once one adapts to the different method of drafting in these apps they rarely want to go back to ACAD, if only for import/export checks.
Much like moving from Word to Pages... annoyingly odd at first but much more productive once learnt fully.
I'm more on the mechanical side of CAE and would kill for a professional FEA package for the Mac (eg. Ansys, MSC, Abaqus et al).