The cheaper AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 runs $60 per month or $485 per year. 'It's exciting to see how customers can now take full advantage of the latest hardware and M-series chips for faster ways to work.'ĪutoCAD for Mac 2024 costs $245 per month or $1,955 per year. 'AutoCAD for Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 deliver incredible, new performance improvements with the ability to run AutoCAD natively on Apple silicon,' says Dania El Hassan, Director of Product Management for AutoCAD, Autodesk. The AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT apps still support Intel as well, but the Apple Silicon versions boast up to 2x performance improvements over the 2023 version. This translates to faster load and render times throughout the app.Īccording to a press release from Autodesk, the Apple Silicon support is for both M1 and M2 series processors. I can open files by going through File Explorer, right-click, Open.Ģ.AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT are the latest professional apps to gain native support for Apple Silicon. File>Open to access project file gives an error that I don’t have access rights to the file location. (My testing has been limited to local files up to ~20MB, including upgrading from 2019, and rendering a 3D view using the 360 cloud service)ġ.

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MacBook Air 13” with M1 chip (16GB memory, 1TB storage) I am not by any means a tech-saavy user, but here is what I’m running: All actions on this laptop, like restarting Windows through Parallels, have been blazing fast. I have a few more days left to return this new laptop, but have really been hoping I can find a solution to running Revit on it. I have had some success with this today (after installing all latest updates to Big Sur OS, Windows 10, Parallels Desktop, and Revit LT 2021).

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