An nameless reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It has been two years and 4 months because the first Apple Silicon Mac hit the market, and now Autodesk has lastly up to date a few of its massively widespread skilled functions (AutoCAD and Maya) to run natively on M1 and M2 chips. The provision of AutoCAD for Mac 2024 was introduced in a weblog publish on Autodesk’s web site on March 28. Like different main AutoCAD updates, it provides new options like expanded automation instruments and simpler workflows, however the announcement that “for the primary time, AutoCAD for Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 now run natively on each Intel and Apple Silicon architectures, together with M1 and M2 chips within the M-series chips” is clearly the headlining function.
Autodesk claims that Apple Silicon help “can enhance general efficiency by as much as two instances” in comparison with the 2023 model of AutoCAD. A day later, on March 29, Autodesk revealed the 2024 replace for Maya, its 3D modeling software program mainly utilized in sport growth, movie manufacturing, and visible results. Maya 2024 brings native Apple Silicon help along with a slew of recent options, together with the LookDevX materials editor, Hydra help, and so forth. However in distinction to many different makers of widespread skilled software program in related industries, comparable to Adobe and Unity, Autodesk’s efforts to help Apple Silicon — which had been introduced two years in the past — have been ongoing for an interminably very long time. Even open supply Maya competitor Blender beat Autodesk to the punch.
