If you need, the following file formats can be exported from these above programs: 3D Studio (. c4d).ĭownloaded 3D Models can be used in 3ds Max, Blender, Maya, Lightwave, Softimage, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Daz Studio, Modo, Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, SketchUp, ZBrush, Poser and other 3D modeling software. Maybe some of the other bugs will have been worked out.īut even if they make powerful workstation m1 chips that are comparable to windows counterparts, you will still be running a software that's not designed or optimized to work on an apple computer.Downloadable 3D Polygonal Mesh file formats available:ģds Max (. I assume Apple will be working on workstation class M1 computers that will be better so I'd at least hold out til then. Really no good reason to introduce hundreds/thousands of potential errors into your workflow. Now everything I mentioned before was under the assumption this was going to be privately used, it's especially a bad idea for work in my opinion. It's not strong enough and it wasn't designed to be.

Looking at the specs of the m1 and benchmarks from what I can see, it still doesn't hold up against windows counterparts, especially for high level CAD and gaming. Now let's say you somehow get everything to load and 'work' on a MAC, there are still many features and verticals that don't work on it because they weren't designed to. AutoCAD is still designed to run on the intel structure and microsoft probably hasn't worked out a reasonable solution to get 'windows' onto the new Macs and work with the ARM structure. This is going to be worse with the new M1 chips because of their ARM structure vs x86. Even though most current apple computers use intel x86 chips, it's still a different OS so you need to run a software to virtualize windows or get a second OS on your machine. In general, using apple for AutoCAD is a bad idea.

Are you intending to use it in conjunction with a VM like OP mentioned or as a standalone? Either way it's likely not great, VM only works if you have IT / CAD staff that actually understand how to make it all work rather than just 'setting it up and leaving it'.

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