Last night in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market there was a gathering of press, Autodesk customers, Autodesk employees, and Apple employees to celebrate the new products that were announced.

AutoCAD for Mac A native 64bit Mac application.

AutoCAD WS for the Apple iOS devices such as iPad, iPhone ,iPod.

There were presentations by AutoCAD for Mac Product Manager Rob McGuire, Amar Hanspal Autodesk,Senior Vice President, Platform Solutions and Emerging Business,  Carl Bass  Autodesk CEO, and Ron Okamoto Apple's Vice President of Developer Relations.It was an exciting evening. One of the images stated “AutoCAD for Everyone” Showing AutoCAD for Windows, AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD Web, and AutoCAD WS Mobile.

Carl Bass  Autodesk CEO, and Ron Okamoto VP of Apple discuss the iPad	Ron Okamoto VP of Apple “excited about AutoCAD coming to Apple products”
Rob Maguire, Product Manager for AutoCAD for Mac and Amar Hanspal Autodesk,Senior Vice President, Platform Solutions and Emerging Business with a live demo of AutoCAD for Mac	Autodesk CEO Carl Bass demonstrates AutoCAD WS on an iPad live. “tickling the iPad Drawing”
Mauricio Ritzmann of OFCDesk showing his ObjectARX based Interior Design application on AutoCAD for Mac	AutoCAD for Mac Product Designer Matt Stein
Autodesk's Rob Maguire, Product Manager for AutoCAD for Mac and Eric Stover former AutoCAD Product Manager who lobbied for AutoCAD for Mac and gathered all the research to get the ball rolling.	AutoCAD for Mac
Autodesk Employees and Customers attending the AutoCAD for Mac Launch Event	Some of the AutoCAD for Mac Team

I really want a 27” iMac with a Magic Trackpad…Amazing graphics and hardware!

Well time to get back to the Autodesk SF office and meeet with Lynn Allen.

Cheers,
Shaan