CAD programs for Macs - Suggestions, anyone?

[Chris_Ely]

Originally Posted by seamushroom

Hey there! I wanted to point out that you still may be able to use windows only CAD software for free. Right now the windows 10 beta is still free (and will be till next fall). You can boot camp windows ten onto your mac book pro's and use some software like Solidworks or Autodesk Inventor. It's going to be extremely hard on the computers, especially with the rather large assemblies that you can end up having with robots, but it should be manageable, especially with tools like large assembly mode on SW. I'm not sure of your schools opinion on using Boot camp, but I think that they will understand the need to do it for the team if you ask.

--Seamus

I would recommend that you don't use the Windows 10 Technical Preview. In may be free, but it is not even close to being a finished OS; it is more like an alpha than beta. Your CAD software might not work well, you might experience crashes, and general instability.