If you do I’d appreciate if you left a comment with your first impressions.įrankly, I’m not sure whether it was a good idea on the part of Autodesk to close the AutoCAD for Mac beta program for new participants the day they announced the product. So while you wait for Autodesk to release AutoCAD for Mac, you can take DraftSight for a spin. Whereas on the Mac, the $4000 AutoCAD will need to do much more than its best to try and dislodge the $0 DraftSight.” “So as I see things happening, on Windows, $0 DraftSight will need to try its best to dislodge the $4000 AutoCAD. As promised, its free and can be downloaded from This reminds me of something I wrote in a previous post titled “ $0 DraftSight For Mac To Be Released Before $4000 AutoCAD For Mac“: Today Dassault Systemes released DraftSight for Mac. On the other hand, SolidWorks quietly showed DraftSight for Mac to a few bloggers they invited to their Blogger Press Day event a couple of weeks ago. Autodesk has put an embargo on beta testers and the only news about the product is from Autodesk employees, who not surprisingly, are raving mad about it and whetting people’s appetites. But the product has not yet been released to the public. Autodesk recently announced AutoCAD for Mac.
