The same concerns are valid now that Apple is moving away from the Intel instructions set to Apple Silicon with the new M1 and later processors.Īutodesk currently supports AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac for 2019 through 2022 editions and later, on Apple Silicon, as long as all available updates are applied and the system requirements are met for each edition.įor example, included among the system requirements for AutoCAD for Mac 20 are these notes: For the most part, they would run, due to an instructions translator called 'Rosetta', at least until developers rewrote their software for Intel instructions.

There were concerns about programs designed for the Motorola processor if they would still run on the Intel processor. In the summer of 2021, Apple announced the start of a two-year plan to move all Macs off the Intel processor platform and develop the CPU architecture in-house as 'Apple Silicon'.Ĭustomers are wondering if the supported versions of AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD LT for Mac will run on Apple Silicon CPUs and if there are any problems with that.įifteen years ago, Apple moved away from Motorola PowerPC processors in favor of Intel.

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