Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for
Show only
|
Search instead for
Did you mean:
This page has been translated for your convenience with an automatic translation service. This is not an official translation and may contain errors and inaccurate translations. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service.Translate
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.
WHY is Autodesk locked to Microsoft dotNET or otherwise if available on Mac & Windows with ACAD? Revit should be UNIVERSAL CODE that is accessible to all platforms & Internet / Clouds.
Please accept this comment in the best possible way but you don't sound like you know what you're talking about.
Allow me to provide you with an analogy form the construction industry. If you're designing some sort of transportable and highly configurable, modular building you are going to settle on a certain platform and a bunch of standardised elements, most likely for a select group of vendors. These will be selected for their ability to interact well with one another as required.
Would it be reasonable in such a scenario to complain that the manufacturer of such a building system should have designed it in such a way that you could substitute any element with any other element from other manufacturers? Would you demand that this be a universal design totally interchangeable with all elements from all other vendors? Probably not.
Well, so it is with software. You pick your platform and then you stay there. Lots of people cite ArchiCAD as the antithesis of what I have just described but I am certain that it's not all roses for those guys. Each operating system has it's quirks and demands and ACAD team most likely are running two independent production lines. Sure, they probably don't have to write all their code twice but I am certain that there is a not an insignificant amount of doubling up.
By the way, I would love to see a native version of Revit for macOS. And I'm not talking about some crippled half attempt. I wouldn't settle for anything else other than full feature parity. For now I am content running Revit under Parallels Desktop. Performance is excellent. In fact my iMac at home can run Revit in a VM and it outperforms my PC at work. Sure, that doesn't say much about my PC at work but still, it's a pretty good solution.
You really should give Revit running in a VM a go. I've been running Revit for years now on various iMacs under Paralles VM. It works very well. No performance issues.
Sort of... some UI interactions are very difficult if not impossible due to the way that browsers behave. You can always go for a privately hosted VM based environment. In either case you'll need a pretty low latency network connection otherwise it's not worth it.
The whole VM thing seems to really put people off but it's not all that scary. And if you don't have the capability to experiment in-house then it might be worth paying a few hundred bucks for a consultant to set you up. Productivity is related to how comfortable the users are with the working environment. I reckon it will be money well spent.
I want to switch to REVIT LT from ACAD LT for MAC. But of course Autodesk doesn't support it still and probably never will. They are idiots. What is the motivation behind it?
I've worked in Architecture most my life and with CAD since '97 (first computer was sgi O2, then PC by force due to ACAD, and then MAC in 2006, at first with virtual means and then VectorWorks but could not effectively open/edit/save DWG, then back to virtual until a few years ago when ACAD finally supported MAC - again). Personally, I've always hated WIN. It is simply the most unintuitive, unappealing, uninspiring, absolutely depressing UI. I also don't want to run WIN on my MAC [stop offering that as a solution]. I bought a MAC because it's a MAC. Not to run WIN on it. WIN is not conducive to creativity. REVIT would be great to use, but not with WIN (at least I have SketchUp Pro). If I was forced to use a PC...again, I would be extremely depressed as before. That's how much I despise WIN. Thinking of that ugly tower, seperate display, all the HW issues, cables, wires,..... agggh! Death before WIN. If Autodesk focussed on fewer apps to do the job and wasting $$$$ doing so, then they could offer support for multiple platforms. And now that it's subscription based, there's no more excuses for a "new release". You [Autodesk] can finally put out the perfect product and satisfy all customers.
@sapote I feel your paint but you're not going to convince anyone to give you anything by calling them idiots first. I've discussed this with other like-minded people who would love to see native Revit on macOS in the past and basically it comes down to this: porting something as complex as Revit to a completely different OS is really, really difficult and therefore really, really expensive.
In the mean time I suggest that you try running Revit under Parallels Desktop. I have been running Revit this way for years now and performance is not a problem. You do need a reasonably beefed up Mac for this but definitely not a MacPro. I have a 2017 iMac and I enjoy very good performance. There are a few tricks to fine tuning both the VM and Revit for optimal performance but it's not hard at all and there are plenty instructions on the web that demonstrate how to do this.
cheers,
-tomek
P.S.
Just so you know, I have a serious medical condition that causes me to gag slightly whenever I have to use Windows so it's not like I'm defending them or anything. I really would prefer a proper cure over the currently administered medication which merely lessens the severity of the symptoms... 😉
The idiots are not the Autodesk team, are us for using an inappropriate software to our operating system. I am seriously considering migrating to ArchiCAD, which by the way works beautifully both on my iMac (21,5" mid 2011 i5 2.5ghz 16gb ram) and on my MacBook (13" no retina mid 2012 i5 2.5ghz 16gb ram).
My office has been using revit through parallels on mac book pros for about 6 years. We run two thunderbolt monitors each, usually with the windows OS on one screen and the mac OS on the other. The only time we see a noticeable performance lag is on the machines that have less than 16 gigs of RAM when we've got photoshop running simultaneously with revit...or in creating sub-regions for large toposurfaces. There was an earlier post that outlined the optimization process for the PC that turned off all of the extra graphics lags for windows...that's another thing we did that appeared to help.
However, we learned early on that the central model gets corrupted very quickly if it is hosted on a mac server. Thus, we've been chained to our windows server and microsoft.
I've not ready about that issue anywhere and have just today discovered this thread.
Does anyone out there using revit in parallels know anything about this or have a mac server that hosts a central model?
@rkernick I was not aware of the corruption issue. One potential way to get around using windows is to set up a small Linux based server that uses SMB protocol to share your central files. In my office we don't use Macs, it's all PCs except for the server. To avoid unnecessary licensing costs we use a Linux based SMB server to serve all our files, including all central files. It works flawlessly. I can highly recommend it.
As for performance lag when running Photoshop and Revit and probably a whole lot of other stuff at the same time, that's got nothing to do with using a VM. Your performance will degrade on a real computer too as you run out of RAM.
I use a WD mycloud with an upgraded SSD hard drive to host all my files "lazy way file server". I run revit on mac pro with parallels. I never have any saving issues but since I am solo operation I have no reason to use a central model.
@oceandrafting Your WD drive is essentially a self-contained Linux box running a SMB server. These things are a dime a dozen these days. In an office situation you could go for something like a Drobo or one of the Netgear NAS appliances that support RAID and multiple ethernet ports. You will get redundancy, failure protection and super fast data access, provided that your network switch can handle the traffic.
It's these hardware/software possibilities and recent jumps in performance that make me actively resist Revit being ported natively to macOS (even though I am a diehard Mac user). I'd much rather have the Revit team spend their time and effort on improving Revit and adding new an useful features.
@oceandraftingYour WD drive is essentially a self-contained Linux box running a SMB server. These things are a dime a dozen these days. In an office situation you could go for something like a Drobo or one of the Netgear NAS appliances that support RAID and multiple ethernet ports. You will get redundancy, failure protection and super fast data access, provided that your network switch can handle the traffic.
It's these hardware/software possibilities and recent jumps in performance that make me actively resist Revit being ported natively to macOS (even though I am a diehard Mac user). I'd much rather have the Revit team spend their time and effort on improving Revit and adding new an useful features.
I know what it is that is why I called it the "lazy way file server" for me it works great and no real set up.
I mostly work on houses, outside of better site tools not sure what I would need added to Revit. I would be fine with a crippled revit in most cases. Most of the improvements I have seen in the past 6 years were quality of life improvements to workflow other wise it feels like the same old same old. Been a revit users since version 5,
I really wish we didn't have you use boot camp or parallels to use Revit. I like the Mac environment and wish I could find all software to stay in this environment. Work arounds to get software to work just means we have more software to update and maintain.
I have also only worked with parallels on a 2015 mac book pro. It worked alright for some small side jobs that I worked on. But when I was working on larger apartment jobs with lots of links, my computer wasn't big enough to handle it. Maybe working on a Mac Pro will result in a better experience.
Since this is a wish list, I do wish for Autodesk to make a Mac version of Revit. The more software developers make there software OS agnostic, the more computer companies have to complete for who has a better piece of hardware. Hopefully more competition will work out better for the end user.
I can also see your side of the story with respect to needing more software and then having to maintain it. However, some of those solutions are so easy to implement and work so well these days that I don't see it as a show stopper at all. I update Parallels once every couple of years or when a useful enhancement is made available. That is pretty minimal when compared to what you have to do to make your Windows machine up to date. And with a VM if something goes all screwy I just delete it and restore from my VM backup.
Also, you need a decent computer but definitely not a Mac Pro. Your main concern when running Revit is single thread performance and amount of available memory. Any recent iMac is more than capable to handle large projects.
cheers, -tomek
P.S. Bootcamp is rubbish as far as I'm concerned. It's the worst of both worlds as you neither get a real PC nor a Mac and the requirement to reboot to change the current OS is a complete no go for me.
