First, I'm brand new here. I work for a company whose art department is Mac based. We are looking to bring our CAD work in-house (we've been doing traditional mechanicals in Adobe Illustrator and our vendors in China have been creating CAD files for manufacture as needed). We also want to start early prototyping with a 3D printer which we've haven't purchased yet but will be purchased soon once our new budget is set.

For CAD, we've been looking at SolidWorks and AutoCAD but these are both PC-based. I know we can set up a Mac to be dual booting into Windows but I was hoping to find a Mac-based solution. Any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!
Pierre