Formit for Mac

[recinedesign]

Hi, I don’t know why but autodesk support of ecosystem seems weird to me, all app for windows (ok seems fair) but then drop Android support but keep improving for iOS, now I’m full in love with the iPad Pro app but as ocd as I am when I’m working im used to work on Mac systems and as easy as should be to port to Mac App Store us using Mac are left out again for the bim business again from AD... now I can maybe be dumb but there are any way to use Formit offline on a Mac,even with the chrome version shutted down by google? Thanks for listening my rant, but loving both AD and Apple system I’m in a weird place where I could suffice with AC and FI instead of Rebit (small business) but don’t know why opportunities are being missed here... ( for personal curiosity, how many people here have an iPad pro and windows pc? It’s like missing on a lot of interoperability )

[TomislavGolubovic]

I have a similar ecosystem, I have a work PC which is a Windows machine, but have an iPad that I use with it. I also have an Apple ecosystem at home. My suggestion for now would be to maybe start the model on the iPad and then save the model to A360 and keep working on it on the Mac via the Web version of FormIt?

[Anonymous]

If so, Autodesk will not produce stand alone FormIt Mac version?

[TomislavGolubovic]

I don’t know. At this point in time that would be the workaround.

[recinedesign]

Yeah, maybe we have to settle for something like that for now (ever) . Thank you for your workaround.
Would love to be able to launch at the office even reddit on my iMac pro for that matter so I could share my Formit model but that is just a dream 😉

[dominoteodosio]

Has anyone tried using Parallels for Mac, then installing Windows 10?

I am planning to do this once I upgrade my Mac. I don't think I can handle buying a PC anymore, I don't like having to keep tabs of so many devices when we already have so many to deal with. 

Would be great that other than running formit on windows through Parallels, Im hoping we can also run Revit on it as well.

[tvollaro]

Unfortunately, we do not support FormIt running on Windows on Parallels at this time. Depending on the size and complexity of your models you could use the web version of FormIt on your Mac natively in Chrome or Firefox.

[toshio1959]

How will that work now that the web service is to be shut down?

[josh.goldstein]

Hi David,

Can you clarify your comment about a web service? FormIt for Web is not going anywhere, and in fact will be receiving a major update in early 2019 along with FormIt for iOS and Windows.

We did announce recently that the Dynamo integration in FormIt for Windows is going local and will no longer rely on a cloud service to function, but that is unrelated to FormIt Web. This will be a huge improvement for FormIt + Dynamo, which is only available on FormIt for Windows.

Thanks,

[toshio1959]

I get it now... our office subscription was just changed to include Formit, but since

1) I use a MacBook Pro for personal use.

2) I snowbird away from the office for 4 months in winter.

3) have successfully used VBox to run some things that HAVE to run local.

4) use remote desktop to my Win10 machine in the office.

I didn't want to sink time into learning Formit web over our Sketchup Pro license unless it was to retain function.

Running through the Formit for Windows tutorial (Farnsworth) and finding gaps in how to do things... biggest being how to use/load the downloadable datasets in the workflow that is being demonstrated.

[josh.goldstein]

Can you clarify what you mean about using/loading the downloadable datasets?

Autodesk moved to a different cloud storage provider recently, so you might hit a broken link or two in the Primer (and we'd like to know, so we can fix them). In the mean time, any of the dataset download links in the primer would point to the two files linked here at the beginning, so you can download both of those folders and use those files in the rest of the Primer.

[toshio1959]

The various menus are a bit different, so for instance, when I first tried to impot the Farnsworth floor plan as a material, I didn’t “see” the way to navigate to the files. I did a workaround to import the image directly. Now I see how to make it work. I’m also trying to create a box building to try the Insight workflow and having issues with creating workable layers and levels.. but I probably should finish the primer first!!

[frank.mcleod]

Hi

I tried this, it does not work formit crashes on launch.

However I have a new mac with a new ios and a later version of parallels, so Im trying again now.

Frank

[robinh]

Although we use AutoCAD, Revit and 3D sMax, we also use a fair few Sketchup licences in our Museum design. They are pretty large Sketchup files. Because Formit works well with Revit and is seemingly adding more and more connections between the 2, I would love to make the switch...... However we also have many Macs and with the size of the Sketchup drawings I am not about to try and get us working in a Web app.

It would be a stunning edition if AutoDesk finally put a native Mac Formit App together!

[jeff_hauswirth]

"Formit works well with Revit"

How will you run Revit on the Mac?

[robinh]

We won't. At the moment we use Sketchup for the early part of the design process, as it covers all departments. The Revit users just have to deal with that. If Formit covered all departments the Revit users would gain more than the other depts.

[recinedesign]

And it would even work with the iOS app now with arm

[robinh]

Yes. Very little additional work if you have an IOS app to release for the M1 chip. Once the M1 is in more common use in Mac's maybe AutoDesk might feel the return is worth it.....

[bskinterior]

We need FormIt on mac. For early stages of designing i prefer to use my macbookpro than my chunky window laptop