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    Default Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    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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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    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?

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    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.

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    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.

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    A couple of people I know use Parallels, and that work pretty well for them to run Revit seemingly naively on their Mac's.

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by Valkin View Post
    run Revit seemingly naively on their Mac's.
    Haha, I know its a typo, but it made me laugh.

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    Quote Originally Posted by ArchitortureIntern View Post
    ...apple for the sake of not having to really have "computer" issues...
    That made me LOL, too.

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    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...?

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    This Samsung commercial highlights the fanboy mindset:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGsv...eature=related

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    Default Re: Revit Native For Apple/Mac

    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...

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