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You are only talking about civil engineering.

There are many different kinds of engineers. What did such "engineers" do before those tools existed? If those are the only tools you use, then you are not "an engineer", but an AutoCAD/ETABS/SAP2000 user. I think you are the one that needs to gain some experience. Just because I find one particular problem doesn't mean the product isn't useful to me or other engineers.Īlso consider that AutoCAD, ETABS and SAP2000 is not couple of tools, is THE TOOLS for Engineers and this topic is for Engineers. They know they are providing a valuable product if I, and other engineers, keep buying it. However, I can't recall ever contacting any vendor just "to be heard". I always try to find the exact cause of the problem whenever possible. If it is something I can't fix on my own, it is going to be pretty tough to track down. I contact my vendors if I discover a problem that I can't work around and need or want a fix.

If I screw something up, Congress asks what happened.ĭid you ever contact companies like Autodesk or CSI to try to get an answer from them or to be heard? Maybe they think that playing with video and photo software's is more important. So the bottom line is that if you are an Engineer you need to get Windows, as MAC is not ''pushing'' to the Civil/Structural or any other engineering field.

I already solve the introduction tutorials for ETABS and SAP200, both on parallels for MAC and on a Windows desktop and the results from parallels where completely different from the video tutorial ones, in the other hand the results that came from the Windows desktop analysis where the same as the tutorial example, hence the corect ones. If you make the analysis and then the design of a structure on ETABS or SAP2000 using parallels for MAC running windows 7, the results are completely wrong. I am having a Mac Book Pro Retina Display i7, a MAC that costs £1800 and is not able to do simple calculations! AutoCAD is not fully completed and all the other finite element software's that you mention are not working even on parallels.