AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

Will one be created?  Thoughts?

[#2]

If there is enough demand for one, I would guess that there will be one.

Again, the mantra holds true here, "Those that know won't say. Those that say, don't know."

[#3]

Considering the level of effort involved, I kind of hope there won't be one.  I'd rather see that effort devoted to fixing the issues with the software we already have.

I'd also be surprised if there's much of a demand.  People in our industry tend to be very cost-concious, and to get a computer of equivalent power, you have to pay quite a bit more for a Mac.  So I suspect most people in our industry would not be interested in significantly higher costs, just to run software that should work just as well (if not better) on a PC.  Especially since people in our industry generally don't have any Macs, and most would have to buy all new hardware, as well as retrain staff in how to use a different OS...

[#4]

I tend to agree with Sinc on this one

[#5 · Accepted solution]

While we can't/won't talk about what we are doing, we sometimes talk about what we're not doing. Case and point: Civil 3D running on the Mac version of AutoCAD is not in our current product plans. We have Autodesk employees that run Civil 3D on the Mac, but they are running it in either a virtual machine or have their Mac running Windows 7x64.

Cheers,

Peter Funk

Autodesk, Inc.

[#6]

Don't know if you will read this but I'd buy 8 versions tomorrow if you had them. The comments about cost just don't stack up when you are comparing a $3000-$4000 machine and a $10000 piece of software. We run a 30 machine net work with both macs and pcs and the pcs give me 5 times the grief, hugely outweighing the cost of the machine. Get with the times here. At the current rate what apple have done in 5 years will put them miles ahead of the rest in the next 10 years if they aren't there already.

[#7]

Get out you checkbook! http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=15421056&siteID=123112

I posted too quickly. I don't see any links for Civil 3D. Only AutoCAD. I don't know if a Mac version is planned for 2012.

Allen

[#8]

Unfortunately I need civil 3D. As soon as you know when it's available let me know.

[#9]

C3D 2012 should be out in a couple of weeks. But I haven't seen anything about a Mac version.

Allen

[#10]

Got pc versions of 2011. If there's any one from autocad interested I'm happy to be one of your first mac customers for civil 3D 2012 or 2013.