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Maya and AutoCAD now work natively on Apple's M1 and M2

Two years and four months ago, the first Mac with Apple Silicon was released, the famous M1 chip that sought for the hardwrae to be made internally by Apple. After this time, Autodesk has updated AutoCAD and Maya to work natively on M1 and M2 chips.

AutoCAD for Mac 2024 was announced in a blog post on the Autodesk website two days ago. This update adds new features such as expanded automation tools and easier workflows. But for many users, the fact that for the first time, AutoCAD for Mac 2024 and AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 now run natively on Apple Silicon, including the M-series M1 and M2 chips, is the highlight.

AutoCAD and Maya professional software now works natively on laptops and computers widely used by professionals

This is that it has taken more than two years since the launch of the first M1, to update software widely used by professionals, to work on laptops, computers and workstations especially used by professionals thanks to the greater integration between the software and hardware that they present. Macs. Until now, they have had to use software that allows them to run Windows software on a Mac. AutoCAD is widely used in a variety of industries and trades, including architecture, urban planning, and industrial design.

Autodesk claims that compatibility with Apple Silicon “can increase overall performance up to two times” compared to the 2023 version of AutoCAD. One day after the original announcement, Autodesk released Maya update 2024, your 3D modeling software. Maya 2024 will also support new features such as the LookDevX material editor and Hydra support.

The Intel versions of Maya and AutoCAD worked fine on Rosetta. But some Mac users have expressed numerous times their complaints about the incompatibility issues they present. To this is added that it was being used in laptops and computers designed for professionals, which aggravated the pain of no native versions for two years. Ars Technica has been able to confirm that run as an Apple Silicon app on a MacBook Pro equipped with a SoC Max M2.

Source: ArsTechnica

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Benjamin Rosa

Madrileño whose publishing career began in 2009. I love investigating curiosities that I later bring to you, readers, in articles. I studied photography, a skill that I use to create humorous photomontages.

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