Comments on: AutoCAD Sledgehammer for Mac in the wild https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/ architosh™ — a global-leading CAD / 3D / AEC industry technology publication and #1 source for Mac and iOS users in these segments. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AutoCAD for the Mac goes official… at last | FEEDER https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-366 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:28 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-366 […] this was, the worst kept secret. A beta version has been doing the rounds over the last few months (Architosh covered it a while back), many of us have been asking Autodesk for official word of the application once we’d got […]

]]> By: News Alert – AutoCAD For Mac Announced « Deelip.com https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-362 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:50:26 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-362 […] news about AutoCAD for Mac is out in the open I think I can point you to an article titled “AutoCAD Sledgehammer for Mac in the wild” on Architosh. For the curious there’s a lot of information in the […]

]]> By: Free Mac » AutoCAD para Mac ya asoma la cabeza https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-322 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:11:04 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-322 […] Información | Architosh Esta entrada es original de […]

]]> By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-311 Thu, 27 May 2010 17:48:50 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-311 Apple has quadrupled the amount of Mac computers it sells each year compared to ten years ago when OS X was going to save Apple’s Mac platform. I remember the days when shipping 750,000 units per quarter was typical. Now north of 3 million units per quarter, Apple is really just getting going with Mac sales as both the iPhone and iPad will continue to drive up Mac sales incrementally via a double-halo effect. I expect Apple (at its current growth rates) will surpass 15 million Macs per year by 2012/13. That safely means 45 million active Macs out in the wild that are relatively new-ish at under 3 years of age. Count another 20 million Macs that are between ages 3+ and 5 years of age old and you have a vastly larger mac eco-system to sell applications into then ten years ago (and growing at that).

Simply put the size of the Mac platform is getting so large that it simply cannot be ignored.

]]> By: Tom Fenn https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-310 Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:07 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-310 This is obviously going to have a major impact on the computer aided design community- some of whom are the most conservative people I have met (especially the engineering variety). I remember having a heated debate with one of my engineering colleagues while studying for my bachelors degree, about the power and solidity of the Mac compared to Windows. This will be the first blow that wipes the smirk off their faces. The second blow will be the announcement that Apple are now worth more than Microsoft ($3billion more in fact), according to Cleve Nettles on the 9to5Mac blog. (http://www.9to5mac.com/AAPL-MSFT-345345332). I would safety conclude that this factor, and the recent success of the iPad and the iPhone, would be a major contributing factor to Autodesk’s sudden change of heart.

]]> By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-58490 Thu, 27 May 2010 13:48:50 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-58490 Apple has quadrupled the amount of Mac computers it sells each year compared to ten years ago when OS X was going to save Apple’s Mac platform. I remember the days when shipping 750,000 units per quarter was typical. Now north of 3 million units per quarter, Apple is really just getting going with Mac sales as both the iPhone and iPad will continue to drive up Mac sales incrementally via a double-halo effect. I expect Apple (at its current growth rates) will surpass 15 million Macs per year by 2012/13. That safely means 45 million active Macs out in the wild that are relatively new-ish at under 3 years of age. Count another 20 million Macs that are between ages 3+ and 5 years of age old and you have a vastly larger mac eco-system to sell applications into then ten years ago (and growing at that).

Simply put the size of the Mac platform is getting so large that it simply cannot be ignored.

]]> By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-309 Mon, 24 May 2010 21:19:21 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-309 So this is likely why we have an installer in Italian but the program’s menus in the screen shots are all in English. Though I don’t know this factually, I think this is the default installer technology that ships with Apple’s development environment (Xcode, et al). You can see in this image here over at MacRumors that the Mac being used has its Finder set to Italian.

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2010/05/22/104512-autocadbeta1b_800.jpg

That image BTW shows the start-up screen, which has a similar size to the installer but it not a part of it thus it would be in English only as the beta appears to be only in English as Ralph mentioned.

]]> By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED A https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-308 Mon, 24 May 2010 21:09:14 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-308 Ralph Grabowski wrote this about AutoCAD on the Mac here:
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/italian-mac-site-posts-screen-grabs-video-of-autocad-2011-running-on-mac-os-x.html

Ralph believes the images are fake. His best argument point is the language situation. Why would Autodesk have a beta in Italian when they historically handle localization after a product is out of beta? That is a good question. And Ralph would know about this far more than I would. But there is an answer.

Autodesk likely built AutoCAD Sledgehammer with Xcode and is using the same “installer technology” that Apple uses for its own software. These installers automatically take on the Finder’s language choice. I ran a test myself. Grabbing the first software box near me (I have lots of software near me!!) I popped in a leading Mac CAD installation disk. The installer didn’t look like the typical installers that come with Apple’s tools and many others, nor the format used by Autodesk. Sure enough, the language did not change to Italian either, after my Finder was set that way. Then I tried some Apple software and another software all produced by Xcode. Sure enough the Finder’s Italian language designation changed the installer’s language to match even though the app installed only in English.

]]> By: Mac : AutCAD : Sledgehammer: kaPOW | BIM, the Built Environment and Stuff https://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/#comment-307 Mon, 24 May 2010 19:10:45 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=3522#comment-307 […] first saw this over at Architosh, where the article goes into further depth about how it was programmed, Cocoa v. Aqua which has […]

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