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Please start producing REVIT for Mac. It is a must have application for architecture students and the mac industry occupies a huge part of the computer industry. We really need the software.
The questions is more like "What percentage of Macs can even run Revit properly?". I estimate around 20%, the ones over $2500. These are the simple economic and technical questions that explain why there will likely never be a native version of Revit for Mac, at least with their current hardware strategy.
Every I-Mac from the past 6-8 years can run revit just fine. If it were native
Every Mac Pro from the past 10+ years can run revit just fine. If it were native
Every Mac Book Pro from the past 3-5 years
Remember even a intel video card will run Revit and do it well it might not be the recommended hardware by Autodesk but it will run it. I frankly could care less about your benchmarking all it shows it Revit runs better on a PC natively. If Tomek stats were ran against revit natively on Mac I would guess they would blow your PC into the next universe.. Why you may ask yourself? The answer is OSX is not very resource intensive and bloated like windows so that your resources can be directed towards your apps.
I have a good amount of friends that bootcamp their Mac Book Pro to use Revit for school. I think you need to spend more time with Macs before you start spouting off statistics based in your mind!
You should make Revit on Mac. It ıs too hard and inefficient to work with parallels. It has been ages since Revit started to be used commonly by many architects who also use Mac for other design softwares.
Please search the board before posting your own ideas. This idea has been posted numerous times already, and each time the moderators have to merge the ideas. A simple search for mac + Revit will have provided you with the Idea you needed.
Autodesk has already some nice softwares for macOS Flow it's one of them, I wonder if they are working on a version of Revit for mac, honestly I have tried other softwares like Rhino and ArchiCad, but i'm a Autodesk user, and I would really love to have a version of Revit for Mac
Thank you. That's how I have it right now, but I don't like having a virtual machine in my iMAC or having to reboot it. It's simply too slow. ArchiCAD works perfectly on my iMAC, but there is a lot of companies using Revit now.
It's very short in writing in one sentence. But I guess it takes hours to days to months to years to complete it. Anyhow, AutoCAD is successfully port to mac already. who knows for Revit?!!!
I really do not think that you will see a version of Revit for the Mac, as much as everyone would love it. I think we would be more likely to see a copy of windows that installs like a program similarly to how it used to work as a shell over MS-DOS back in the day. I have used Revit from a VM for years and if the system is powerful enough it runs just fine. Another option would be for you to set up Remote Desktop computer and connect to it from the laptop, currently that is how I use Revit. I keep a windows server in my media closet and run Revit over Remote Desktop connection. With 10 Giabit ethernet it is almost seamless. I however, run a windows laptop for Revit.
The architecture industry and the use of different platforms. It shouldn't come to "Native OS" excuses for a company that is committed to being the leader in BIM. I am already seeing the change, how firms are choosing ArchiCAD over Revit in the US.
The customer will not adapt to the offer of the company in charge of the software, but they will choose the most user-friendly and the one that offers a better quality. GraphisoftArchiCAD is already integrating McNeel Rhinoceros, helping architects to develop more interesting designs.
Now, Apple (Macintosh) has more interest than Microsoft in developing tools and adding support for design software. Maybe is time to include Autodesk Revit Mac in your next Building Suite or at least start developing the App.
It is important to remark that "Urban Culture" places the Mac in a "Cute/Marketed/Useless" computer, but look into the specs of Mac Pro Series, they are highly competitive and able to be the nest of BIM. Let's not forget that PC is meant to be a Personal Computer.
Cross-Platform: Leaving aside preferred OS, we should be able to communicate in different languages, different Measurement Units, different Professions. In order to do this Mac version is demanded.
Now, just because you don't see the Idea highly voted, doesn't mean is not demanded. I have no doubt is one of the Top 5 in Real Life if you go knock doors to Universities, and Firms.
It is important to remark that "Urban Culture" places the Mac in a "Cute/Marketed/Useless" computer, but look into the specs of Mac Pro Series, they are highly competitive and able to be the nest of BIM. Let's not forget that PC is meant to be a Personal Computer.
The Mac Pro has not been updated in 5 years and is totally cool if you are ruing only 1080 monitors. The second you plug 4k Monitor in you bog down the D700 Video cards and you lose considerable performance. And the iMacpro is not really for the pro it is yes powerful and that power comes with a huge price tag and no ability to upgrade save maybe some memory addins.
Autodesk is not likely to make a Revit for Mac anytime soon even if you demand it though with all the fumbles MS has been making with windows 10 as of late maybe Autodesk will decide that it needs to rethink the entire API backbone of Revit and move away from MS .Net!
I run a headless server in a closet in with a Gigabit connection, and I access it that way via HP Remote Graphic software. After years of using Parallels for Revit I found this to be the best option. In time it will not matter since everything will be cloud based in the future.
Get over the criteria, that the MacPro isn't for the Pro-User beacuse one cannot update the hardware in any way.
We use MacPros (and HP Z Workstations) for our daily business (Revit and AutoCAD on Windows 10 under Parallels). But no matter if its a Mac or a PC, after four years of usage, the hardware will be replaced by a new one. No upgrading in any way is needed. By the ongoing development of new hardware, we think it's better to replace the Mac or the HP Workstation rather then frickling in some new graphic card oder a bit more of RAM ...
Anyway: this HP Remote Graphic Software seems to be another way to use Revit on a mac. So one can use the mac for even a longer period of time an only replace the HP Z Workstation in the background. Something to take a closer look.
4 years is a very long time for a graphics card, and like I said 4k on the Mac Pro late 2013 is painful sorry if you do not agree. I would rather spend $600 for a GPU upgrade then buy a new system not sure that I have ever maxed out 64 gigs of memory. I built 2 machines for roughly the same price as the entry level iMac pro. One running windows 7, one running Mac OS 10.14. I used an I7 rather than a Xeon. But with the 9th gen I9 coming out with 8 cores and can be just plugged into my current board that's a huge upgrade for minimal cost.
Yes it would be great to run Revit on a Mac even in a crippled capacity like Auto cad. However, after 5 years now I do not see a light at the end of this tunnel.
Absolutely. 4 years are quite a long time. But can you be sure, to be able to upgrade the graphic-card? Are the sockets still the same (at the moment ... probably yes). But is it a good thing to use a new high power graphic card with an elderly cpu? Shouldn't the system as a whole be "state on the art" ...?
I also tested the i7 in a "normal" PC (a gaming machine at home). And yes, probably you can use a i7 instead a Xeon. Why not. But the reason why we are all here is, that we are using macs or would like to use a mac.
So I'm using a late 2013 MacPro with 32GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD and the basic D300 graphic cards with each 2 GB on two 27" 2K Monitors. The system is now nearly 5 years old and with this in the background of my mind, I find the MacPro does it all handle very well.
OK, our Revit-files are only about 200 MB. Not the really big ones, I know. But we reference architecture or other mep-files with 400 to 500 MB each (up to 4 or 5 external models) and the MacPro handles this also. For a system at this age using parallels to handle windows and revit not a bad thing.
Okay the price tag is quite high. But you get a beautiful looking black wine cooler with built in heating 🙂
PCI-E slot has been the standard for a very very long time, they are currently on generation 3 I am not sure that I would see a change other then to Generation 4 but not for the next generation cards the new Nvida cards are still using Gen3. In addition as long as the slot stays the same generally there is some backwards compatibility though with a bottle neck.
I totally agree that the 2013 Trashcan can fully rock 1080 monitors without an issue. and until you start working with point clouds it might not ever need to be upgraded. But under 4k it bogs them done considerably, I gave my 2013 to my friend who is an audio engineer she will likely use it for another 5 years.
P.S. I wish I could remove the need for windows compleetly but right now that is not a reality.
I have two very pretty LED light boxes that generate plenty of heating out of the 2 Vega cards.
PC hardware and Mac hardware today are so close it is almost as easy to run Mac OS on PC hardware as it is to run windows.
Totally agree. And yep: Point-clouds are a real pain the a ...
I also agree, that there won't be a nativ revit version for the mac in the near future. And if we look at AutoCAD and what Autodesk made of it on the mac side, I don't think I'm really looking for a mac-version of revit anyway.
