Two years and four months after the first Apple Silicon Mac hit the market, Autodesk is finally running some of its most popular professional applications (AutoCAD and Maya) natively on the M1 and M2 chips. Updated to allow.
The availability of AutoCAD for Mac 2024 was announced on March 28th in a blog post on Autodesk’s website. Like any other major AutoCAD update, it adds new features such as expanded automation tools and easier workflows, but “For the first time, AutoCAD for Mac Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 will be powered by the M-series chip. It now runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon architectures, including the M1 and M2 chips.”
Autodesk claims that Apple Silicon support can “deliver up to a 2x overall performance improvement” compared to the 2023 version of AutoCAD.
AutoCAD is widely used in a variety of industries and industries such as architecture, urban planning, and industrial design.
The next day, March 29th, Autodesk announced the 2024 update for Maya. Maya is a 3D modeling software primarily used in game development, film production, and visual effects. Maya 2024 brings native Apple Silicon support, along with many new features such as the LookDevX Material Editor, Hydra support, and more.
But in contrast to many other makers of ubiquitous professional software in similar industries, such as Adobe and Unity, Autodesk’s effort to support Apple Silicon, which was announced two years ago, has been very slow. has been going on for a long time. Even Blender, an open source Maya competitor, has beaten Autodesk.
The Intel versions of both Maya and AutoCAD worked fine with Rosetta, but some Mac users have understandably been frustrated over the years and wondered why Autodesk was taking so long. did not clarify which
However, it is here now. Maya 2024 was confirmed to be available for download with existing subscriptions at no additional cost and running as an Apple Silicon app on his MacBook Pro with M2 Max.
