Revit For IOS

[barbaracalandrim]

Hello, my name is barbara and i’m a interior design student. Most of the time i use my Apple Macbook for projects and research. I have Autocad and Sketchup in my computer but the one that i want badly is Revit. My question is when will you develop a version for IOS? 

[mhiserZFHXS]

Its been documented multiple times that Autodesk has no intention of making Revit for Mac, and they've provided their reasons for this. Despite Mac users being so loud, Apple only has a small portion of the market share for PCs. I'd rather Autodesk spend their resources improving Revit for those using it now than build the program from scratch for a small amount of people.

[jay_colcombe]

As mentioned this is heavily documented and discussed so have a search around.

i have done this personally and for clients running Revit on imac especially in Architectural offices.

Most ran a virtual machine which allows you to quickly switch between OS and Windows platforms (VMWare or Parallels) but come at a cost!

I personally found the most stable route was Bootcamp and this is included free with IOS but requires a reboot between Platforms so less seamless.  I run Revit 2024 in my 13” 2019 MacBook Pro without any issues but it was always recommended on an intel based MacBook.

In my opinion you are probably more likely to get Revit as a cloud platform than in IOS but even this is a long shot!

[HVAC-Novice]

I agree, cloud version of Revit (and browser access) may be the only way to ever use a non-x86 platform efficiently.

I doubt it would work well, even if a Mac version would existed. If you collaborate/exchange files, Revit is very picky about the exact version used by everyone (i.e. 2024.1.1). Collaborating in a mixed environment (some on Mac, some on PC) would be a total disaster. And you can say about x86 what you want, at least it was consistent and Revit could rely on it being the same. Apple switches forth and back from proprietary, x86, ARM etc. Not worth investing $ in Apple platform since in 2 years they may flip again. 

I assume your 2019 Mac still uses Intel/x86? That basically was the same hardware as a windows PC. I have no personal experience, but with the newer ARM M1, M2, M3 any emulation will be even harder/less efficient/impossible since that truly is a different platform from x86 now. 

[pendean]

@barbaracalandrim Autodesk says...

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-Revit-201...