AutoCAD Electrical for Mac...Please,Please

[Anonymous]

Hello Designers,

I am an electrical engineer and I use this software on daily basis in the office. Why isn't the toolset available for a Mac user.Yes,I use bootcamp but the experience isn't as good as the AutoCAD 2019 on Mac.I have several questions:

1.When will the Autodesk team roll out the toolset feature for AutoCAD Mac User?

The MacBook Pro is a capable device to run AutoCAD 2019 Electrical but why isn't the Autodesk team giving the solution?When I heard about the toolset idea for the CAD 2019 ,I was so hyped expecting that this would patch up and bring AutoCAD Electrical to Mac.So in order to finish my work ,I have stay overtime in Office to complete my work.Please ,please bring AutoCAD Electrical 2019 to Mac ...It would make much easier.I have the 15 inch 560X version of the MacBook .

[pendean]

"toolset" is not what it implies: it's not a plug-in or add-in, it still is a full installation of AUTOCADELECTRICAL that installs like it always has.

Variants of AutoCAD outside of plain and LT are not available natively for the MacOS platform so far except as Windows OS software that you can install on your MAC like this https://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/

[Anonymous]

My lad I have bootcamp with AutoCAD Electrical 19 with the latest Radeon driver via bootcamp drivers.Now my question is why on earth an i7-8850H processor with 6 cores and 12 threads with base clock of 2.6Ghz with boost clock of 4.0Ghz with dedicated 4GB VRAM of Radeon 560 X with latest drivers is still slow on bootcamp whereas my office prehistoric desktop with 3rd gen i7( with no graphic card) and 4GB RAM runs it better with AutoCAD Electrical 15.But at the same time AutoCAD 19 for Mac works very smoothly.🤯🤯.Bootcamp ain't smooth and windows is Frustrating.Adobe team can make Lightroom and Photoshop for Mac.What about us engineers, Autodesk please make a fix .And to others who want to reply..PLEASE I KNOW BOOTCAMP.

[DarrenP]

you can add that idea here if its not already there: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-ideas/idb-p/37

but i highly doubt they will ever do this

[pendean]

BOOTCAMP sucks, it's as simple as that: visit Apple's support forums and see if anyone has cracked how to fix it yet. there are dozens of tips to try to speed up Windows (and therefore all apps in it).

Adobe's loyalty to it's MAC Users is phenomenal and exceptionally unique in the software industry. You can't compare them to Windows-only-until-recently Autodesk, that's a total waste of time.

[andrew_kth9]

Hi,

I agree with what you are saying.  I have no solution but I wonder... do you know of any add-ins that can give some electrical schematic symbols etc for electrical components for the mac version?  

I have just installed AutoCAD but I need to make schematics.  I read that Schneider have an add-in for mac but when I try to access it there is only a windows version so maybe they since dropped support.  Any ideas?

Andy

[pendean]

There is almost no 3rd party vendor writing add-ons for the AutoCAD for MAC platform, it's a desert out there right now.

[andrew_kth9]

Such a shame. I can do the rest of my workflow with apart from electrical schematics.

Any recommendation for electrical software for Mac?  I do electrical rather than electronic circuits, so contactors fuses motors etc.

[pendean]

Run Windows on your MAC: you're in a minority in this specialized cad town.

[andrew_kth9]

Oh really?!   (Joke) Yeah for sure I’m in the minority!  

Don't worry I have a Dell Precision 5510 for the day job. It’s only a dream to be able to get everything done on the mac instead and move over to it full time. So close, yet so far if I cannot do schematics.

[JeffatPrimex]

Doing a quick search I found this. It might work for you?

https://www.parallels.com/products/business/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIr6bkge_M5QIV0cDACh0sqgJhEAAYASAAEgK3M...

Best regards,
Jeff

[andrew_kth9]

I have heard of parallels before but never tried it, maybe I should use free trial to test the performance. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Its seems to Autocad engineer tend to ignore this issue rather than solve it they even don't answer to your request

[adarsh.deshmukh666]

please add AutoCAD electric for Mac OS 

[mrackAUZYE]

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@Anonymous wrote:

My lad I have bootcamp with AutoCAD Electrical 19 with the latest Radeon driver via bootcamp drivers.Now my question is why on earth an i7-8850H processor with 6 cores and 12 threads with base clock of 2.6Ghz with boost clock of 4.0Ghz with dedicated 4GB VRAM of Radeon 560 X with latest drivers is still slow on bootcamp whereas my office prehistoric desktop with 3rd gen i7( with no graphic card) and 4GB RAM runs it better with AutoCAD Electrical 15.But at the same time AutoCAD 19 for Mac works very smoothly.🤯🤯.Bootcamp ain't smooth and windows is Frustrating.Adobe team can make Lightroom and Photoshop for Mac.What about us engineers, Autodesk please make a fix .And to others who want to reply..PLEASE I KNOW BOOTCAMP.

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I've read in the past that AutoCAD doesn't really unilaterally USE multi-core processors... dunno if maybe that is part of the problem.  I believe you are generally better off w/ a higher-rated single-core.

[JeffatPrimex]

Maybe run Vmware Fusion to run Windows on a Mac. I have run AutoCAD Electrical in a windows VM just fine.

Best regards,

Jeff