Did a search, didn't really find an answer that helped. Does Autodesk have any plans in the immediate/near future for Revit to run on Macs without the need to run dual operating systems?
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Did a search, didn't really find an answer that helped. Does Autodesk have any plans in the immediate/near future for Revit to run on Macs without the need to run dual operating systems?
I have no inside track but I wouldn't hold your breath. It would involve a complete rewrite of Revit code and I doubt very much that is currently in the cards.Other than OS and hardware preference do you have any 'real' reason for wanting/needing it to run native?
New firm loves apple for the sake of not having to really have "computer" issues, but that's another banana. We are using Archicad 16 and two months in, I am not impressed. Just weighing options, but it sounds like the only way revit will run on mac for the forseeable future is dual OS.
Dual OS would be the way to go, but I'd also recommend VMWare or similar. Once the Revit model got very complicated, that wouldn't be a great option, but VMWare works so well that you could run Revit and be on the Mac side of things. Pretty simple. I was at an all-Apple firm a while back and we used VMWare and ran Rhino3d while using Vectorworks. Until we wanted to render, there were plenty of resources for running everything all at once.
A couple of people I know use Parallels, and that work pretty well for them to run Revit seemingly naively on their Mac's.
Could someone explain to me the importance or significance of running CAD or Revit on a Mac? Is there something better about them? My wife has a MacPro for her graphic design work and it is consistently locking up and crashing. I've got a similarly spec'd laptop running photoshop, revit, outlook and 3dsMax all simultaneously and rarely if ever do I get locked up. What is the infatuation with Apple? I'm serious...?
This Samsung commercial highlights the fanboy mindset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGsv...eature=related
Well unfortunately, this firm is very set in mac-land and are not planning on budging from archicad. And after some of the absurd things I have run into trying to put together a set of docs (only one room tag for all types of plans? 6 steps to change the scale of a drawing once it is on a sheet? layers? LAYERS?) I am not impressed with archicad. Guess it's time to take a look around in chitown again...