Hi Paul and all, I tend to agree with Susan. My nephew studied Architecture at UWA and used AutoCad on his iMac under Windows for the last 3 years or so of his degree. That may not be the ideal solution for Mac users, but I understand that most draftmen (draftpeople??) use Windows and almost all use AutoCad.
There could be software that will export their files in the AutoCad format, but unfortunately I do not have any experience in this domain. All the very best to your daughter. Regards, Philippe C 2009/6/9 Susan Hastings <susanhasti...@me.com>: > Hi Paul, would it not be safer to have run Windows on the iMac and have > AutoCAD run under that? TAFE are not very Mac friendly, and if there are > transfer problems, they may not be able to help your daughter. cheers, > Susan. > On 09/06/2009, at 8:30 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: > >> Paul, >> Be careful. If you are enrolling at Central to do the drafting course at >> Leederville then they will only being using AutoCad and will need to read >> autocad >> files. Trust me I work here >> >> john >> >> On Tue Jun 9 20:03 , Paul Weaver <pwea...@westnet.com.au> sent: >> >>> Thank you for all the useful advice so far. Plenty of Mac CAD options. >>> What drove >> >> this question was that we can take advantage of the ATO's 50 percent >> Education Tax >> Refund if we make a parental decision on a new computer before the end of >> the >> month. We are thinking a new 24 inch iMac for $1250 might be handy for >> our >> daughter's ongoing CAD efforts. One other question. Is there a standard >> format >> for saved CAD files so that they can be read by different CAD apps? >>> >>> Cheers, Paul. >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug- >> >> unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >>> ) >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
