Revit for mac 2015

Anonymous · ‎12-15-2014

As we can see the latest topic is allready 2, when you ask if Revit is coming for the mac-os X.

They can't keep coming with the so called solution BOOTHCAMP. When is it gonna happen Revit team?

Are there any progress? Please keep me up to date.

Many thanks,

Anonymous · ‎01-20-2015

As Revit proliferates, the need to provide a mac os version of Revit Increases. Small and interdisciplanary practices desperately need the native mac version. Younger designers and architects are also more likly to prefer os platform.

If a cloud solution is not around the corner, a mac os solution is OVERDUE.

Anonymous · ‎01-20-2015

as far as i know there are no plans for a MAC version

Anonymous · ‎01-28-2015

I would say Autodesk will either wait until another company does it first and buy that company and sell the product or buy the company and kill the product. Especially if it is better. There has been a little improvement in Revit since Autodesk bought the company, but Autodesk is top heavy as a company and does not do well as small companies that are more innovative and Autodesk's forward thinking gets bogged down in meetings to decide when to have the next meeting.

KD

SteveKStafford · ‎01-29-2015

Little improvement since Autodesk bought Revit? That's a stretch... Revit Structure and MEP both did not exist prior to Autodesk purchasing the software. Revit as a stand alone company only existed in the public space with a product we could touch for less than two years. It's now 15 years since the Revit 1.0 debut...and little improvement? One year to the next you could argue something didn't change or improve but over 13 years...little?

As for OS X, I try not to say never... unless it's you never know... they brough Acad to the Mac again, it could happen for Revit...you never know.

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edanastas · ‎06-11-2015

My hunch is they have a secret deal with Microsoft to not provide Revit for Mac so they can keep people in Windows.

Keith_Wilkinson · ‎06-12-2015

conspiracy theorists... 😉

I can understand the frustration - personally I'd love to buy a Mac as from a design perspective I think they're great but as my main software use is Revit it's just not practical - it's a choice we make. If Autodesk feel the additional development costs of producing a Mac isn't commercially viable they just won't do it. However with new players such as Renga coming to the market which may well offer a Mac version you never know what might happen.

As for no improvements to Revit I couldn't disagree more - it's come on leaps and bounds - there still a lot that needs work IMO and from an architecture perspective things have slowed a bit over the last few years but we're seeing big improvments in the MEP side of things.

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chrisplyler · ‎06-12-2015

Disclaimer: I'm a Windows guy.

I certainly won't bash Mac. I'm not THAT Windows guy. But I would like to hear some reason why people think it's a better design platform.

Back when fonts were handled so much better than they were in Windows? Sure. Back when Adobe only made Mac versions of their software? Understandable. But is there any real, compelling reason any more?

Keith_Wilkinson · ‎06-12-2015

I just think they are nicer to look at... 🙂

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ToanDN · ‎06-12-2015

edanastas · ‎06-12-2015

This made me crack up! Very funny. If you don't know why, then never-mind. I didn't mean to re-kindle the age old debate about which is better, just to point out that considering the Mac platform has a huge following, it doesn't make any sense why they wouldn't develop a mac version.

Anonymous · ‎06-12-2015

Ok Why i choose a mac, because its a stable system, works more smooth for me, no updates when you don't want them, works amazing in combination witj iphone and ipad, never lets you down, looks good, after 4 years of owning one its still as fast as when i bought it.

Thats why I choose a mac.

Anonymous · ‎06-12-2015

Ok Why i choose a mac, because its a stable system, works more smooth for me, no updates when you don't want them, works amazing in combination witj iphone and ipad, never lets you down, looks good, after 4 years of owning one its still as fast as when i bought it.

Thats why I choose a mac.

edanastas · ‎06-12-2015

The OS is actually faster now after their latest announcement (http://www.apple.com/live/2015-june-event/). They are showing pretty significant speed increases after the latest OS update. Another really overlooked thing which is a huge usability issue for me is in the Mac's explorer (Finder) they have the little triangle drop downs so you can browse multiple nested folders in the same folder. This really helps for a number of reasons. The Windows Explorer version of this is a joke and always had been... the tree display is never synchronized with your current folder location. It's like scrolling two different windows.

edanastas · ‎06-12-2015

Another one of the many features that most Windows users can't even comprehend, is that you can rename a file while you have it open! Wha-wha-what!??? Yep. The write protection concept is so deep in the windows psyche, they can't even think about a world without that headache. BTW, I use windows 7... more than I do my Macs at home. In the end, it get's the job done and it's better than it used to be. But I can dream can't I.

chrisplyler · ‎06-12-2015

Nothing wrong with the answers given. Maybe I should try a Mac some day.

Just for a reference data point, my Windows 7 PC is perfectly stable, never updates unless I tell it to, works just fine with my phone and my tablet, is ~~just as fast as~~ faster than the day I bought it four years ago, etc. Accept for when I upgraded to more RAM and SSDs, and on the rare occasion a software upgrade or installation requires it, I don't think I've ever rebooted it.

But I know that's not representative. Don't get me started about my mother and her PC that I have to clean up every time I go visit her. She doesn't know how to click the no-way-in-heck button whenever something pops up asking if she wants some browser search bar installed, or her system "tuned" by a web site, or if she will watch cute-kitten-video.exe that was sent to her by im.a.suspicious.stranger@aol.com or whatever.

At least with a decent Mac you're getting good components without having to think about it. I think a lot of problematic PC systems, or at least the perception that PC systems are commonly problematic, are related to the fact that a high percentage of people buy whatever cheap box that Costco or BestBuy has on sale.

I think Macs are becoming more and more popular. I'm surprised Autodesk doesn't seem to feel that a Mac version of Revit is a worthwhile investment.

craig · ‎09-01-2015

Autodesk is the only company holding me in Windows Hell...I wish they never would have bought Revit. A Mac version is essential to my healthy computing environment.

Anonymous · ‎12-22-2015

quiero descargar revit

Anonymous · ‎12-22-2015

quiero descargar revit

craig · ‎02-15-2016

For example, I just bought a new HP plotter, downloaded and installed the drivers for mac and in less than three minutes was printing. I downloaded and installed the windows drivers and after an hour of fiddling with it, I gave up and called HP tech support. 2 days and 1 hour later they gave up and told me to call parallels support. Two hours later we finally got it to print. This typifies my windows experience for both software and hardware technical issues over the previous 20 years. I'm so done wasting my time with windows.