∞ AutoCAD for Mac to be accompanied by iOS app

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Autodesk has announced plans to release its legendary professional design and engineering software AutoCAD for the Macintosh. The software will be available this fall. The company has also announced a mobile application that will enable AutoCAD users to adjust their designs using iOS devices in the field.

AutoCAD combines design and drafting tools in a graphical user interface designed to be intuitive for Mac users. It supports Mac OS X technologies like Cover Flow and support for multi-touch gestures on Apple laptop trackpads, the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. AutoCAD for Mac lets users work in the DWG file format; it’s downwardly compatible with DWG files created in older, PC-only versions of the software. An Application Programming Interface (API) provides customization features for tailor-built workflows.

The AutoCAD WS application will be released for free on the App Store for iOS devices including the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. With AutoCAD WS, users can edit and share AutoCAD files without needing access to the full AutoCAD app on the Mac.

Autodesk has also announced plans to offer AutoCAD for Mac for free to students through the Autodesk Education Community.


  • Neal Pann

    Holy Snap! This is huge news in the A&E industry. This announcement will only help Apple and the Mac’s resurgence back into offices that had to abandon it when Autodesk dropped AutoCAD in 1992 and support for the Macintosh in 1994.

  • n

    I hope Autodesk plans on doing the same with Revit. The industry as a whole is on a steep slope toward BIM already, acad for macs in 2010 seems comically “too little too late”. I might have cared 7 or 8 years ago. I don’t now.