If it were done, I think it would have the following outcomes: Reversing or working around that process is a very substantial undertaking. Any Windows-specific advantage the developers can take has been taken. Since then, the code base has been spreading its mass of roots deeper and deeper into the Windows soil. Also, not relevant to the point I’m about to make.Įver since the last multi-platform AutoCAD (Release 13), Autodesk has dedicated its primary product solely to Windows. They look good, they’re well made, they work well, the Mac OS has been shamelessly copied by Microsoft for decades, and so on, ad nauseam. My experience of Apple products has generally been very positive.

I’ll concede right here and now that you are probably right. If you’re a Mac fan who wants to tell me the benefits of your chosen computer family and how inferior Windows is, save it.

Now, this sort of platform discussion often degenerates into a quasi-religious debate, so let’s see if I can head it off at the pass. If you’re one of those users, I’m sorry, but I think this is one of those cases when giving you what you want would be bad for everybody, and bad for you in particular. It pains me to write this, because I’m very much a user advocate and I’m arguing here against something that some users have been requesting for a long time. The more I think about this, the more I am inclined to believe that this would be a bad idea. There has been a fair bit of open discussion from Autodesk lately on the subject of a possible future OS X AutoCAD version.

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