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JeremyHerrman 2 hours ago [-]
Seems like this URL has only been live (at least first archived [0]) around May 2026, originally with only 13 products. Great to see them add more since then, now close to 90.
What's ironic is that Apple does all their mechanical CAD work for their products in Siemens NX running in Windows VMs.
leohonexus 2 hours ago [-]
I understand the need for it to be in Siemens NX, but do they really run it in Windows VMs? As far as I know NX isn't certified to run in VMs without Nvidia GPU passthrough (aka Macs). It seems more sensible to maintain a fleet of Windows desktops specifically for CAD and industrial control.
zarzavat 1 hours ago [-]
More sensible, yes... but less ideologically pure.
steve1977 1 hours ago [-]
It could be VDIs, i.e. VMs running on another system, potentially x86 with GPU
brcmthrowaway 2 hours ago [-]
This is insane. Is there no great first party CAD solution on Mac?
left-struck 14 minutes ago [-]
Nothing that CAD and engineering students would be familiar with.
There are some open source options but those aren’t taught at school afaik.
culturestate 1 minutes ago [-]
Not that it's necessarily suited for Apple's use case, but Fusion runs natively on Mac.
nikitaga 31 minutes ago [-]
Tons of industrial software is Windows only, whether it's design, operations, or configuration & control apps for industrial hardware.
MacOS versions are more commonly found in the low end of the market, e.g. Fusion 360.
steve1977 1 hours ago [-]
I guess not for this use case. There are many industrial use cases for which there are no macOS versions. In fact, Siemens NX was once available on macOS AFAIK, but isn't anymore.
thechao 2 hours ago [-]
I wish overhead (cut away to passenger layout) and side scale drawings of all cars existed. That way you could directly compare the vehicles. You'd think such information would be needed (in the U.S.) by the NTSB; and, thus, be freely available.
weinzierl 9 minutes ago [-]
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Dig1t 6 minutes ago [-]
What font is used in the technical drawing part? It's very cool.
MBCook 3 hours ago [-]
I had no idea they published this to the general public.
darknavi 3 hours ago [-]
A huge ecosystem of third party accessories, cases, skins, etc.
The openness is easily worth it.
eloisius 2 hours ago [-]
I always imagined shops in China got out the calipers and made measurements from scratch every time a new iPhone was released. Never knew Apple made it this easy to manufacture Minion iPhone cases
Maxion 38 seconds ago [-]
The big manufactureres pay or just simple acquire the leaks.
userbinator 14 minutes ago [-]
They probably still do, if they have the device, because you definitely want to make sure before creating the not-cheap-even-in-China tooling.
As others have mentioned, these are more useful for when they don't, i.e. before the actual release.
SoftTalker 2 hours ago [-]
Commoditize your complements. Wide choice and availability of accessories benefits hardware sales.
MBCook 2 hours ago [-]
That’s obviously the people who are really using it, but I assumed you had to pay Apple to get it.
So either you made your own measurements or if you were doing Made For iPhone and they would give it to you as part of that program which surely you must have to pay for.
gertlex 2 hours ago [-]
I assume there's NDAs in place with some vendors pre-release, since my understanding is some accessory vendors get the needed info before new models are released, so they can spin up their lines and have accessories ready to go when the new model hits the market.
(but I could be wrong; NDAs w/China? no idea what the time between announced/released/shipped is typically; I last bought Apple product in 2009...)
tonyedgecombe 14 minutes ago [-]
I've heard that they are busy bribing people in Apple's manufacturers for dimensions before products are released.
p0ckets 2 hours ago [-]
Commoditize Your Complement - Apple wants accessories to be cheap.
You might want to pay for the Made For iPhone certification for some things, but I doubt most cases have it.
plorg 11 minutes ago [-]
It's nice but lots of companies do this if their equipment is meant to be used with other equipment from third parties. Frankly I'm surprised they only provide it in 2D PDFs.
enoch2090 3 hours ago [-]
For accessory manufacturers?
duskwuff 1 hours ago [-]
Yes. These drawings are a companion to Apple's accessory design guidelines, which include a lot of other interesting design considerations:
Curious why the Macbook Neo is the only Macbook included?
mrcwinn 3 hours ago [-]
Even the drawing of the Vision Pro feels heavy.
sysguest 2 hours ago [-]
idk maybe apple can release fbx or blender files?
I mean these seem nice for print-decorations...
LiamPowell 1 hours ago [-]
No decent engineering firm is going to want to work with FBX or Blender files. In fact they probably wouldn't even know what to do with them. Even proper model formats such as STEP files don't give you the details that are on a drawing that you actually need to do anything useful with these.
0: https://web.archive.org/web/20260512182718/https://developer...
There are some open source options but those aren’t taught at school afaik.
MacOS versions are more commonly found in the low end of the market, e.g. Fusion 360.
The openness is easily worth it.
As others have mentioned, these are more useful for when they don't, i.e. before the actual release.
So either you made your own measurements or if you were doing Made For iPhone and they would give it to you as part of that program which surely you must have to pay for.
(but I could be wrong; NDAs w/China? no idea what the time between announced/released/shipped is typically; I last bought Apple product in 2009...)
You might want to pay for the Made For iPhone certification for some things, but I doubt most cases have it.
https://developer.apple.com/accessories/Accessory-Design-Gui...
I mean these seem nice for print-decorations...