“Architosh reached out to Nemetschek Vectorworks, the leader in CAD on the Mac, to gauge their reaction to Metel for OS X,” Anthony Frausto-Robledo reports for Architosh. “Nemetschek Vectorworks’s chief technology officer, Dr. Biplab Sarkar had this to say: “I am very excited about the prospect of using the unified API (that combines OpenCL and OpenGL) in Vectorworks and enhancing the graphics performance.””
“While admitting it is too early to know all the details, Dr. Sarkar believes Metal could be quite similar to Vulkan and its benefits,” Frausto-Robledo reports. “From the WWDC 2015 keynote this week we learned that Adobe is quite enthusiastic about Apple’s new Metal for OS X. And more importantly for the CAD and 3D markets, so is The Foundry and Autodesk, both makers of massive war chests of 3D and CAD tools running on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.”
“Adobe is one thing, what will be more promising is seeing Autodesk, The Foundry, Trimble, and Nemetschek AG’s many Mac programs and others all embrace Metal in short order,” Frausto-Robledo writes. “If AutoCAD, Maya, Mari, NUKE, MODO, SketchUp, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks and Cinema 4D all come out to embrace Metal for OS X—then, as Judy Garland famously said in the film The Wizard of Oz, ‘Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: It will be very interesting to see just how far Apple takes Metal for OS X (further than for iOS?) and how it is implemented by major third-party OS X developers. Right now, there are too many unknowns to draw any sound conclusions.